THE BLACK KEYS "Tighten Up" for Jay.

ARCADE FIRE: Hear advance snippets from every song on The Suburbs. Also, next month's MSG show will be a live webcast.

JIMMY WEBB got a feature plus tracks on Weekend Edition Sunday.

THE WALKMEN drop "Stranded" as yet another advance track from Lisbon.

RA RA RIOT drops "Boy" as an advance track from The Orchard.

LIVING COLOUR, Live at the 9:30 Club, Jan. 24, 1989.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Ra Ra Riot, Agent Ribbons and, er, Liz Phair are featured in the latest installment of the long-running series.

CROWDED HOUSE, reunited, play "Twice If You're Lucky" for Fallon.

SLEIGH BELLS: Derek Miller talks to Weekly Dig about cheerleading's influence on the band's music. That influence is another reason I think I should like this band more than I actually do. (Thx, LHB.)

PITCHFEST REDUX:  Frank Yang has a more comprehensive review of last weekend's festival than mine, with photos, plus supplemental audio and video links. Be sure to check out all three parts.

ARIEL PINK talks to Mother Jones about his odd ways and newfound success.

THE BEST OF 2010 (So Far), according to MySpace.

LINDSAY LOHAN will serve only 12-13 days of her 90-day jail sentence.  The first hours may have been tough, but Li-Lo has found a friendly pharmacist to fill her prescriptions in the pokey.

MAD MEL UPDATE: RadarOnline has a picture of Gibson's baby with Oksana Grigorieva, taken after he allegedly struck the infant. TMZ has learned Oksana Grigorieva claims Mel Gibson grabbed her son and threw him onto a table in a fit of rage, all over a cigarette.  Los Angeles Sheriff's Department officials are looking into allegations that Gibson may have been the victim of an alleged extortion attempt by Grigorieva; she denies it.

SANDRA BULLOCK giving Jesse James a second chance?

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE could soon be married with a child.

CHRIS ISSAK may succeed Simon Cowell on American Idol.

BATMAN 3:  A studio casting grid lists The Riddler as the villain, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as "interested."  JG-L appears in Christopher Nolan's Inception, along with a number of Nolan's Batman alumni, including Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, and Cillian Murphy.

10 UNDERAPPRECIATED SCI-FI MOVIES, according to LikeMe. (Thx, LHB.)

NORTH KOREA: The Obama admin. moved Wednesday to push new sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.

IRAN: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Muslims to fight the "blind and savage terrorism" fuelled by the United States and Britain, whom he blamed for deadly bombings of an Iranian mosque.

PAKISTAN: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani categorically denied the presence of al-Qaeda chief Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mulla Omar on Pakistani soil, despite the United States claim that they take refuge in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.

PORCUPINE thinks he's a puppy.

RECKLESS SHRIMP: It's the Prozac.

CHINESE C*CK SOCCER Has PETA Crying Fowl: "China's Zhang Lijun hatched the idea in 2007, when she noticed her young cocks enjoyed playing with balls."

THOUSANDS OF SPIDERS were denied entry to Guam.