U2 AT THE ROSE BOWL: If you missed it Sunday night, it's all on U2ube. 

JAY FARRAR and BEN GIBBARD played music from their Kerouac-themed album at DC's 9:30 Club Tuesday night; you can stream the gig now via NPR.

MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. did six free songs for Daytrotter, two previously unrleased. 

HA HA TONKA did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

CARLY SIMON did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, including "You're So Vain."

MARINA and the DIAMONDS seem pretty flexible in the video for "Mowgli's Road."

THE FLAMING LIPS: Wayne Coyne talks to Pitchfork about the new Embryonic album -- how it came together, the shift in direction, what it might mean for their live show.

THE RAVEONETTES: Sune Rose Wagner talks to the Detroit News, while Sharin Foo talks to ChartAttack.

THE SWELL SEASON is profiled in the New York Post.

KINGS OF CONVENIENCE: Erlend Øye chats with PopMatters about the influence of French house music, his hatred of flutes, and why his dashing musical partner is such a hit with teenage Korean girls.

BORED NEW WORLD: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music.

DAVID LETTERMAN: One of the few women ever to write for Late Night with David Letterman, Nell Scovell remembers a hostile, sexually charged atmosphere.

ANGELINA JOLIE bedded her mother's boyfriend when she was just 16, according to a bombshell new biography penned by controversial writer Andrew Morton.

SIENNA MILLER and JUDE LAW: Together again?

ROMAN POLANSKI's rape victim asked a Los Angeles court to drop the charges against the director, claiming the media attention interferes with her employment and health.  That would be a bit tricky, considering Polanski has in fact been convicted of the crime.  Her desire for closure and privacy is understandable, but the reason criminal cases are brought by "the State" or "the People" is because the system exists not merely to serve victims, but also society at large.  Private justice gets served by the civil system, where this woman has negotiated a sizable monetary settlement with Polanski -- a fact left out of this story, and almost every story about her.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN canceled a concert in Kansas City after his cousin was found dead in his hotel room.

RENEE ZELLWEGER is getting ready to "meet the parents" - Bradley Cooper's parents, that is.

ROSIE O' DONNELL told Howard Stern that she and longtime lover Kelli Carpenter are kaput without actually saying it.  O'Donnell also claimed she had a phone fling with Angelina Jolie, before she hit the big time.

THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY tried to have a Nightline piece on the church's bizarre founding mythology spiked. Shocka!

TERROR from the USA: Two men from Chicago have been charged with plotting overseas attacks, including on the Danish newspaper which published cartoons about Islam.

IRAN is already trying to change the UN-drafted plan to ship enriched uranium out of the country for processing. Shocka!

IRAQ: The al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq took credit for the Oct. 25 suicide attacks in Baghdad that killed more than 155 Iraqis. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government has approached the French nuclear industry about rebuilding at least one of the reactors that was bombed at the start of the first Gulf war.

SHARK ON SHARK VIOLENCE: Let's go to the video. What say you, Police Chief Brody?

A ROBOTIC ELK is helping Oregon wildlife officials catch poachers.

WIGS FOR CATS: Just in time for Halloween!

SPIDERS and SNAKES: After finding a tarantula in a 22-year-old's bag, Norwegian customs officials decided to give him a full body search that revealed 14 stockings - one for each snake - taped around his torso.

GRIEVING CHIMPS? A a phalanx of more than a dozen chimpanzees stood in silence watching from behind the wire of their enclosure as the body of one of their own was wheeled past.  Sad pic at the link.