ST. PATRICK'S DAY STARTS HERE:

...with JOE STRUMMER and THE POGUES!  People will be getting their drink and dance on today, so enjoy Joe, Shane and the band putting a Celtic spin on "London Calling" and "I Fought The Law" for St. Patrick's Day, 1988. Follow that up with the Dropkick Murphys' videos for "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (which you may have heard in Martin Scorsese's The Departed) and "The Wild Rover."  Round it out with an Old Grey Whistle Test of my Fave Pogues songs, "Sally MacLennane" and a Shamrock Shake.

THE HEAD & THE HEART stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

JACK WHITE played a parking lot at SXSW, including Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and the White Stripes' "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground."

THE VACCINES played a set for The Interface at SXSW.

SPEAKING OF SXSW, Largehearted Boy can hook you up with 10 free and legal sampler albums from acts at the fest.

JOE COCKER is "Feelin' Alright," with a little help from his friend.

BUDDY MILLER talks to Paste about his health, the players on his new album, Richard Thompson and more...

LIZ PHAIR talked with Austinist about SXSW, the "scene," her first performance, and some lessons she's learned along the way.

DAVID JOHANSEN, reflecting on the New York Dolls reunion, tells The A.V. Club that looking to the past is something that's as painful as it is inescapable-not to mention occasionally funny.

NILE RODGERS is cancer-free. Great news!

STATE OF THE INDUSTRY: An incredible 81.7 percent of new album sales come from just 1 percent of new release titles, according to details released by Nielsen Soundscan.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE was "miserable" with Jessica Biel for years.  Granted, there's the old saying that no matter how beautiful the woman, there's a man who's tired of her (or something like that), but does it sound remotely palusible that JT would feel trapped in a relationship?

REESE WITHERSPOON walking down the aisle March 26?

RYAN PHILLIPPE was blindsided about his possible paternity by his ex.

SURI CRUISE has interesting taste in candy.

HOWARD STERN gets personal in the latest issue of Rolling Stone.

MEGAN FOX is in negotiations to star alongside Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in Judd Apatow's spin-off of Knocked Up.

AMERICAN PIE: A big-screen reunion is in the works.

RED DAWN: The remake is being edited -- and possibly shelved -- to avoid angering China. Something to keep in mind during the next story about how brave and edgy Hollywood is.

LIBYA: The Libyan army issued an ultimatum on Wednesday to residents of the opposition capital Benghazi, warning them to leave rebel-held locations and weapons storage areas by midnight, Libyan television reported. Folks in Tripoli seem to be giving up on a revolution.

BAHRAIN: Six people, including two policemen, were killed after security forces attacked a protesters' camp in the capital of Manama. Security forces deployed armored vehicles and helicopters against the protesters, and succeeded in clearing the square.

PAKISTAN: An American working as a contractor for the CIA who had been jailed for the killing of two Pakistanis on a crowded Lahore street was freed on Wednesday and immediately flown out of the country, after a payoff to the victims' families.

AFGHANISTAN: As American troops press the Taliban in their desert and mountain redoubts, Western diplomats, Taliban leaders and the Afghan government have begun to take a hard look at what it would take to start a negotiation to end the fighting.

IRAQ: An Iraqi court sentenced Munaf al Rawi, al Qaeda in Iraq's former leader in Baghdad, and five of his lieutenants to death for their involvement in several major bombings in Baghdad. Rawi gave up information that led to the deaths of Abu Ayyub al Masri and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, AQI's top two leaders, in April 2010.

PENGUINS on a plane.

LIONS were confiscated from a Romanian man who kept them in his garden.

ROBO-ROACHES: What could go wrong?

MAMA SQUIRREL takes her baby to a new nest. Aw.

DO CHICKENS FART? A survey of experts.