SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS dropped a video for "I L U," directed by Toby Halbrooks and David Lowery.

NOT-SO-NEW RELEASES from Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Les Savy Fav, Springsteen, Local Natives, Four Tet, Mumford and Sons, the Budos band and more are streaming via Spinner.

JEFF MANGUM (Neutral Milk Hotel) played a surprise show at the Schoolhouse in Brooklyn to an audience of 75 or so people.

THE BEST WORLD CAFE of 2010, according to host David Dye.

GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL, home to bands like Gold Panda, Matthew Dear and School of Seven Bells, is streaming a compilation LP featuring unreleased tracks.

DIAMOND RINGS did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at Pop Montreal.

GLAM XMAS:  Wizzard's awesome "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" (1973's UK Xmas No. 1) are your Twofer Tuesday.

LESLIE FEIST talks to The Guardian about making a documentary, swapping schools without telling her mom and her debt to the Muppets.

GORILLAZ have started their own online advent calendar.

THE WORST ALBUM COVERS of 2010, according to Pitchfork.

COLLEGE RADIO: An endangered species?

BRITNEY SPEARS is on a romantic trip with Jason Trawick in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The allegations she has vehemently denied about their relationship are purely coincidental.

JOHNNY DEPP would like George Clooney or Brad Pitt to star opposite him as the Lone Ranger.

CHELSEA HANDLER wants you to know she really, really, really is not a fan of Angelina Jolie.

KIM KARDASHIAN denies being pregnant by Kanye West.

JOSH DUHAMEL says he learned his lesson after being booted from an airplane for refusing to stop texting.

KELSEY GRAMMER is engaged to his new girlfriend Kayte Walsh.

CHARLIE SHEEN's estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, has checked into a sober living facility.

EVA LONGORIA put on a brave face at Hollywood hot spot Chateau Marmont with dozens of pals.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY almost retired at the age of 22 when she realized she was not enjoying her work, she has disclosed.

"DANDY" DON MEREDITH, the Dallas Cowboys and SMU quarterback and Monday Night Football icon, died Sunday evening in Santa Fe, NM. He was 72.

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! on tonight. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc.

AFGHANS are more pessimistic about the direction of their country, less confident in the ability of the United States and its allies to provide security and more willing to negotiate with the Taliban than they were a year ago, according to a new poll conducted in all of Afghanistan's 34 provinces.  But residents of two key southern provinces that have been the focus of US military operations over the past year say aspects of their security and living conditions have improved significantly since last December.

A CAPYBARA, sucking on a bunny's ears...Mass hysteria!

THE SQUIRREL THREAT is stealing Christmas in Braintree, Mass.

AN ALLIGATOR was busted after using the drive-through at McDonald's in Kansas City.

MINNIE the SECOND is a harmless-looking kitteh accused of attacking a patron at the 156-year-old McSorley's Old Ale House in NYC.

RESEARCHERS dress as panda bears as an essential part of China's ambitious strategy to reintroduce captive-bred Giant Pandas back into the wild.