FERRABY LIONHEART's latest video is for the tuneful "Pocketknife."

NEW RELEASES from They Might Be Giants, An Horse, Bootsy Collins, Cass McCombs, The Wombats and Vandaveer, plus a Roy Orbison comp and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

STEVE EARLE played a Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR offices.

IRON & WINE played a mini-set at the UBS Forum for The Current.

FLAMING LIPS produced four new songs in gummy skulls, now available via YANP.

MY MORNING JACKET dropped "Holdin On to Black Metal" in advance of Circuital, but you have to Like the band on the Facebook to hear it.

THE 10 BEST SHINS SONGS (So Far), according to Paste, with embedded audio.

THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEARE, the psychedelic front group for XTC, play "The Mole From the Ministry" and "You're A Good Man, Albert Brown" for Twofer Tuesday.

BEASTIE BOYS get an extensive oral history from New York magazine, while the band posts an alternate stream of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.

PJ HARVEY talked to The Observer about 20 years in music and the emotions behind her latest dark masterpiece.

PHOSPHORESCENT front man/composer Matthew Houck talks to Consequence of Sound about songwriting, moving up to big festival gigs, and more.

HALEY BONAR talks to the Mpls City Pages about recording Golder.

HAZEL DICKENS, a Bluegrass pioneer, has passed at 75.

LINDSAY LOHAN will be picking up trash, emptying trash bins, mopping floors and cleaning windows and restrooms at the L.A. County Department of Coroner's facility.

JAY-Z & BEYONCE playing the Royal Wedding reception? The rumors are so crazy right now.

TONI COLLETTE is a mom again.

KEVIN JAMES is a dad for the first time.

RYAN PHILLIPPE wants to bow out of the harsh glare of Los Angeles, but isn't quitting acting.

JOHNNY DEPP is doing an uncredited cameo in the 21 Jump Street movie.

ELLEN BARKIN gets a lengthy profile in the New York Times Magazine.

THE HOBBIT, which is being shot at 48 frames per second, loses Rob Kazinsky, who was to play Fili.

SYRIA: The Obama administration said Monday it was considering "targeted sanctions" against Syria after government forces sharply escalated their deadly campaign to crush a five-week uprising.

IRAN has been hit by a second computer virus, a senior military official said Monday, suggesting it was part of a concerted campaign to undermine the country's disputed nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: Hundreds of prisoners escaped from a jail in the country's south on Monday through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents, officials said, a "disaster" for the Afghan government and a setback for foreign forces planning to start a gradual withdrawal within months.

EINSTEIN: The world's smallest stallion has a ball.

A SIX-FOOT GATOR invites himself into a home in Palmetto, FL.

THE WORLD'S WICKEDEST BUGS are found in Japan.

A SNAKE knocked out power to thousands in Upper Marlboro , MD on Easter. A very crispy snake.