MAYER HAWTHORNE drops a Mr & Mrs Smith-themed video for "The Walk."

CROOKED FINGERS is advance streaming Breaks in the Armor.

STILL CORNERS is advance streaming Creatures Of An Hour.

MEGAFAUN stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

WILD FLAG also stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

ST. VINCENT completes The Current trifecta with a chat and mini-set.

THE CLASH: "London Calling," Live in Paris 1980.

FEIST: The Recovering Pop Artist.

MAGNETIC FIELDS: Stephin Merritt speaks to The Quietus about meditation, musicals and writing new music.

DAWES: Taylor Goldsmith talks to the Santa Barbara Independent about the band's long and winding year. (Thx, LHB.)

BON IVER does a playlist for iTunes.

BERT JANSCH, legendary folk guitarist and co-founder of Pentangle, has died at 67 after a battle with lung cancer.

ASHTON KUTCHER: Photos from inside the San Diego penthouse where he reportedly bedded 23-year-old Sara Leal -- are splashed across the cover of Star magazine.

JOHNNY DEPP issued an apology for comparing photo shoots to being raped.

EDDIE MURPHY may turn up on SNL this weekend for the first time in 25 years.

KRISTEN STEWART inadvertently confirmed she's dating Robert Pattinson in the GQ piece hitting newsstands today.

BLAKE LIVELY, fresh off Leo DiCaprio, has been spotted with her Green Lantern co-star, Ryan Reynolds.

MICHAEL JACKSON's slurred speech was heard at the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray.

JESSICA ALBA shows off her second daughter, Haven Garner.

10 LIFE-CHANGING ROLES Actors Turned Down.

MR. ED is trotting toward the big screen.

STEVE JOBS, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. (And here's the official NYT obit.)

SYRIA: Assad can feel satisfied that Russia and China have stood by him and prevented international action that might just have given him pause for thought as he pursues his vicious crackdown on Syria's protest movement.

EGYPT: The United States' Gulf Arab allies no longer trust Washington since the White House yanked its support for Hosni Mubarak in February, former Obama adviser James Jones told a private meeting.

PAKISTAN: The United States has linked the resumption of military aid to Pakistan with the latter's cooperation in the war on terror.

AFGHANISTAN: Six people have been arrested after an alleged al-Qaeda plot to assassinate Pres. Karzai involving one of his bodyguards was foiled.

KITTENS and a vacuum cleaner.

A RARE ORANGE MONKEY was born at the London Zoo.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Aurora police said a man told them the crash that ended with his car plowing into a garage started when he swerved to miss some squirrels running across the road.

A HUNGRY BADGER could not stop an injured former soldier from breaking the world record for the longest distance travelled on a mobility scooter in 24 hours.