ARCADE FIRE & CYNDI LAUPER joined together on "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)", just in time for Twofer Tuesday.

NEW RELEASES from Fleet Foxes, Raphael Saadiq, Manchester Orchestra, Okkervil River, Cars, Booker T, Felice Bros, Man Man, Sloan, Le Butcherettes and many more are streaming this week via Spinner.

THE LOW ANTHEM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

ALELA DIANE stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set in audio and video.

OMD: Live on KEXP at SXSW.

JOHN WALKER, one of the founders of the Walker Brothers, has died at the age of 67, after a six-month battle with liver cancer. So it makes sense to make "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" and "Make It Easy On Yourself" for Twofer Tuesday.

FLEET FOXES: Robin Pecknond talks to Pitchfork about the Pacific Northwest, the selfishness of art, and why authenticity still matters to music fans. You can seen them Live From Stubb's in Austin, TX, tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET.

CASS McCOMBS sent snail mail for an L.A. Times profile of the singer-songwriter.

PETER HOOK's EP of Joy Division re-recordings has been delayed "due to legal issiues."

MICHAEL STIPE became so ill as he battled bulimia, he thought he was suffering from AIDS.

LINDSAY LOHAN poses as a vampire in a new art exhibit in L.A. At least I think it's a pose.

WHITNEY HOUSTON checked herself in to an out-patient rehabilitation program, but insists it's not for drugs or alcohol. Her own rep disagrees. Awkward!

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER & MARIA SHRIVER have separated, with Shriver moving out of their Brentwood mansion while the two determine the next step in their 25-year marriage.

JUSTIN BIEBER was a "brat" on the set of CSI, according to star Marg Helgenberger, Bieber thinks the comments were lame.

SIMON COWELL might have competition for the title of "meanest judge" on The X Factor in music industry veteran and table-mate Antonio "L.A." Reid. (I generally have not watched American idol, but what I see on Twitter suggests people want miss Simon and want more mean.)

RACHEL McADAMS is wearing a ring, but sources close to the actress and boyfriend Michael Sheen deny an engagement.

ALICIA SILVERSTONE gave birth to a boy over the weekend.

KELLY BROOK has been left ‘devastated' after losing the baby girl she was expecting with her boyfriend Thom Evans.

BAHRAIN's king ordered an end to the emergency rule imposed in mid-March to quell a wave of anti-government protests as leading opposition figures went on trial Sunday for plotting against the Gulf state's monarchy.

LIBYA: NATO strike aircraft bombed military weapons depots in the town of Zintan.

IRAN:  Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from Iran's clerical establishment, Ahmadinejad welcomed an intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet meeting on Sunday.  NPR starts a series on the US sabotage campaign against the theocracy.

PAKISTAN: Last week's US raid into Pakistan is fueling one of the country's most enduring-and potentially dangerous-conspiracy theories: that the US has designs on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and is prepared to send highly trained commandos into the country to seize control of the weapons.

BABY CHINCHILLAS in WINE GLASSES: A Love Story.

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A pig with two snouts. And a big appetite.

A THREE-LEGGED DOG survives a tornado in Barton County, GA.

WHEN HOUSECATS ATTACK... a Cleveland man is airlifted to the hospital.

THE BIRDS: Michael Doherty was walking by a Tufts University classroom building on Dearborn Road in Somerville when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he was attacked.