LOCAL NATIVES drop a video for "Who Knows Who Cares."

SUZANNE VEGA stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set, including two of her better-known songs.

THE SECRET SISTERS svisited Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

WARPAINT is advance streaming The Fool via the ol' HM.

WEEZER is streaming their rarities collection Death to False Metal.

PHANTOGRAM stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. (A bit electronic for me, but you might like it.)

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Titus Andronicus, Suuns, First Aid Kit and more bands from CMJ 2010.

SONGS FOR FALL, selected by the NPR staff.

MARTI JONES & TIM LEE (The Windbreakers) cover The dB's classic, "Neverland." With Beatle Bob cameo.

ELVIS COSTELLO talks to Stuff (NZ) about being compared to himself and more...

THERMALS: Hutch Harris talked to Austinist about the new LP, vinyl, indies vs. majors and more... (Thx, LHB.)

GENESIS P-ORRIDGE's Top Ten Favorite Psychedelic Folk Songs.

ELTON JOHN gets a lengthy profile at The Telegraph.

CYNTHIA PLASTER CASTER is running for Mayor of Chicago.

CHARLIE SHEEN says his crazed coke and booze binge with a prostitute (reportedly Capri Anderson, a 22-year-old adult film actress who denies being an escort) that left him in a New York hospital has been overblown and overplayed. Which explains why he's headed back to rehab. TMZ has pics of the hotel room. Ex-wife Denise Richards reportedly saw the early of this binge.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA has allegedly moved into a hotel after soon to be ex-husband Jordan Bratman refused to move out of their family home.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE cheated on Jessica Biel with actress Olivia Munn during a three-day fling this past September, reports the new Us Weekly.

DAVID ARQUETTE told Howard Stern that he got weepy after having sex for the first time following his separation from Courtney Cox.

BATMAN 3 will be titled The Dark Knight Rises and will not include The Riddler, according to director Christopher Nolan.

JAMES CAMERON will shoot Avatars 2 and 3 back to back, tying him up until 2015.

CONAN O'BRIEN, the new cover of the Rolling Stone, talks about his off-air exile.

BLAKE LIVELY & PENN BADGLEY: The Gossip Girl costars have ended their three-year romance.

MICHAEL CAINE surveys his career and explains Inception in one sentence.

SACHA BARON COHEN is accused of participating in an alleged attack on a gay cameraman at a gay marriage demonstration in Los Angeles back in 2008.

ERNIE & BERT: Straight? NTTAWWT.

TERROR in the USA: Federal law enforcement authorities are investigating a nascent plot to carry out a series of terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system.  Separately, the FBI arrested Abdel Hameed Shehadeh and a federal court has charged him for attempting to join al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, Jordan, and Somalia.

IRAN has begun loading nuclear fuel into the core of the Bushehr reactor. The Bushehr plant will be connected to Iran's electrical grid by February, officials said. The Obama administration is pushing to revive a failed deal for Iran to send some of its nuclear stockpile overseas in exchange for assistance with peaceful nuclear technology.

AFGHANISTAN: An intense military campaign aimed at crippling the Taliban has so far failed to inflict more than fleeting setbacks on the insurgency or put meaningful pressure on its leaders to seek peace, according to US military and intelligence officials citing the latest assessments of the war.

KITTEH from McDonald's. I'm Lovin' It (assuming it's not the Happy Meal).

DOLPHINS in the wild are teaching themselves to "walk" with their tails along the surface of water, biologists have claimed.

STOWAWAY HAMSTER grounds a Brunei-Brisbane flight.

NEWLY-DISCOVERED SNUB-NOSED MONKEY sneezes in the rain.

WET DOG SHAKE: Let's go to the physics.

ROBOTIC CAT PLAYROOM, courtesy of the Oregon Humane Society.