GIRLS' Christopher Owens performed an acoustic set at San Francisco's Radio 3 Gallery, including  "Solitude" and "Saying I Love You," covers of the Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue" and Skeeter Davis' "End of the World," and four unreleased songs.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE airs a session at Morning Becomes Eclectic.

WHITE DENIM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

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

BLOUSE, mixing early '80s languid post-punk melody and early '90s shoegazer pacing, is advance streaming their self-titled debut.

M83: "Midnight City" was snapped up for the Victoria's Secret holiday commercial.

ZOOEY DESCHANEL & BEN GIBBARD have separated after two years of marriage.

BRIAN WILSON talks to Spinner about the SMiLE Sessions, revisiting some demons in the process. NPR is Deconstructing "Heroes and Villains" from the box set.

MUMFORD & SONS: Ben Lovett talks to PopMatters about his live promotions biz.

PETE TOWNSHEND calls Apple a "digital vampire," and quasi-eulogizes both Steve Jobs and John Peel.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON talks to Vanity Fair about her hacked nude pictures, Woody Allen and more.

JUSTIN BIEBER, slapped with a paternity suit. Bieber's legal team is ready to strike back.

KIM KARDASHIAN was never "in love" with her estranged husband, Kris Humphries, a source close to the former couple tells RadarOnline.

HUGH GRANT became a dad for the first time, welcoming a baby girl in early October.

LINDSAY LOHAN asks for help from the morgue.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & JOHN GOODMAN join the Coen Bros' upcoming "Inside Llewyn Davis," set in the world of 1960s folk music.

HENRY CAVILL talks to Access Hollywood about getting ripped for Immortals and Man of Steel.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: Set pics slightly revealing.

THE TOP EARNING DEAD MUSICIANS, according to Forbes.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS beheaded a Sudanese man for being a sorcerer.

YEMEN: US counterterrorism officials have set their sights on the top bomb maker of al Qaeda's Yemeni branch, whom the officials have identified as a central figure in at least three new potential terror threats involving Americans or American targets.

SYRIA: NATO's chief ruled out intervention, while the Arab League waited for Syria's response to its plan to end the crisis.  UN investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.

LIBYA: The United Nations Security Council has expressed "concern" over the fate of the massive weapons stockpile built up in Libya under Gaddafi. The UN has expressing concern down to a science.

PAKISTAN: Haqqani leadership - contrary to the American emphasis on drone strikes in the tribal areas - does not have to hide in Pakistan's ungoverned fringes. So close are the Haqqanis' ties to Pakistan's military and intelligence service that one might just as well look for them around the capital, Islamabad, or in the closely guarded military quarters of Rawalpindi.

A HUSKY sings with a baby.

HORSE RESCUED from a Bedford County swimming pool before hypothermia set in.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Militant rodents are trained to play billiards and the piano.

SEA OTTERS know how to chill out.

SHEEP Occupy Madrid.