FANFARLO introduced the vast American TV audience to "Harold T. Wilkins."

FIELD MUSIC is advance streaming its Measure LP via MBV. There's a track-by-track tour at Drowned in Sound.

LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION is advance streaming Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You.

MORNING BENDERS have another advance track, "Excuses," to stream and download.

DAVID VANDERVELDE drops "Learn How to Hang" as an advance track. 

PILOT works their "Magic" on TOTP.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT: Scott Hutchison takes ClashMusic on a track-by-track tour of The Winter Of Mixed Drinks.

PAVEMENT guitarist Scott Kannberg, a/k/a Spiral Stairs, talks to PopMatters about

THE ANTLERS: Peter Silberman talked to Aquarium Drunkard about the Hospice album.

FLAMING LIPS frontman Wayne Coyne chews the fat with Crawdaddy.

CHARLIE SHEEN: People close to the sitcom star are urging him to go to rehab, just like his wife. His legal woes put an aura of uncertainty around 'Two and a Half Men.'

TIGER WOODS: Elin reportedly will not move back in with him.  The golfer will end nearly three months of silence Friday when he speaks to the media for the first time about his middle-of-the-night accident sparked shocking revelations about his infidelity.

BRADGELINA and the brood arrive in their new home in Venice.

JESSICA SIMPSON publicly laughed off John Mayer's Playboy interview, but OK! claims she feels betrayed.

LINDSAY LOHAN is reduced to partying with London's Z-List.

BRITNEY SPEARS is still doing ads for Candie's? Really?

ROGER EBERT is profiled by Esquire.

PAKISTAN: The WaPo looks a bit more into the capture of the Afghan Taliban's operational commander: "His whereabouts, I think, were extremely well-known to the Pakistanis for a long time," said Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist and Taliban expert. Yet the L.A. Times is referring to it as a "rare" intell break on the US side. And yet again, the Taliban's "shadow governor" of Afghanistan's Kunduz province has been captured.

WOMAN CHASES RAT back into a toilet.

PYTHON stolen from... a petting zoo?

BEAR SLAPS MAN, man is busted.

A CAT that wandered into a Fife rescue center with a can stuck on its head has left staff wondering how it reached them without being knocked down.

CHUPACABRA SIGHTING: Alcohol may have been involved.