TOM WAITS drops a video for "Satisfied."

WORLD CAFE's 20th-anniversary celebration concert stream includes highlights from The Little Willies, Indigo Girls, John Hiatt, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dawes, Feist, Rhett Miller and Amos Lee.

JENS LEKMAN played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

SPECTOR: The Observer calls them "East London's answer to The Strokes," which I guess I hear starting at their website... the crooning also vaguely Smiths-y.

JOHN WESLEY HARDING talks to Weekend Edition Saturday abouthis novel and his latest album, which features plenty of guests, including Rosanne Cash, Peter Buck of R.E.M., and most of The Decemberists.

BILLY PAUL: "Me and Mrs. Jones." Got a thing going on.

THE DECEMBERISTS frontman Colin Meloy and his sister Malie talk to Salon about their childhood in Montana, where they found early inspiration, and how two delightful yet distinctive storytellers emerged from one family.

BEIRUT: Zach Condon talks to the Lexington Herald-Leader about recording The Riptide in sequestration. (Thx, LHB.)

BLONDIE: Count Debbie Harry among those who think the Internet ruined the music business.

CHRIS ISSAK pays tribute to Sun Records' golden years.

LINDSAY LOHAN channels Marilyn Monroe in her Playboy photo shoot. But that picture isn't part of it; she's done this before.

MICHAEL JACKSON: Dr. Conrad Murray was placed on suicide watch at the L.A. County Jail.

JOHNNY DEPP moved out of France and returned to America because he didn't want to become a permanent French resident and pay income tax there.

JENNIFER GARNER called her love scene with Hugh Jackman in Butter "so horrifying."  You'll want to check the plot if you have ties to Iowa.

DEMI MOORE, licking her wounds after husband Ashton Kutcher's September affair with 22-year-old Sara Leal, "looked skinny but happy" at an A-List fashion show in L.A.

MICHAEL VICK is caught up in a naked photo scandal, according to RadarOnline.

BRETT RATNER apologized for using a gay slur Friday night at a public screening of Tower Heist... but still "resigned" as producer of the next Oscars.

THE DUGGARS are expecting their 20th child.

IRAN: Details emerged on the IAEA report on Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons including the use of computer models and foreign experts. The Israeli president warned that an attack on Iran was becoming more likely. The Gulf Arab states share Israel's concern.  Russia warned against military action and France said such actions would be destabilizing.

AFGHANISTAN lacks the support systems critical to a modern military, including the reliable ability to bring in food and ammunition, carry out the wounded and reinforce troops in combat with artillery or air power.

IRAQ is bracing for a potential escalation of Persian influence as the US military leaves at the end of the year.

BUDDY & PEDRO are to be matched with females, because of the whole endangered thing.

HARLEY the ST. BERNARD is an easy rider.

IN JUST 15 MINUTES? A 3 and ½ foot long gecko was sold for about 2 million bucks at Kyaukse Village in Sagaing Region on October 30.

THE BIRDS: Residents in the foothills of Albuquerque, NM, have claimed that giant owls have moved into the area and are snacking on their small cats and dogs.