THE BLACK KEYS drop a video for "Little Black Submarines."

THE XX are advance streaming Coexist.

SEAPONY is advance streaming Falling.

JD McPHERSON stopped by The Current booth at the MN State Fair for a chat and some tunes. 

RAYMOND BYRON & THE WHITE FREIGHTER: The new band from Castanets' Ray Raposa plays for Oregon Public Broadcasting. 

ISSAC HAYES croons "Walk On By" for my Hal David hangover.

JON SPENCER talks to Drowned in Sound about putting the Blues Explosion back togather, Twitter, and more.

CORIN TUCKER: The one-time Sleater-Kinney frontwoman talks to The A.V. Club about Ian MacKaye, Kathleen Hanna, and her daunting first show.

JENS LEKMAN's 21 Most Irresistible Lyrics.

THE MOST UNDERRATED ROCK GUITARISTS, according to Flavorwire.

KRISTEN STEWART lands her first British Vogue cover, though the excerpt only obliquely addresses her current personal woes.

TOM CRUISE: Oscar winning "Crash" writer-director Paul Haggis confirmed the story of Naz Boniadi, the beautiful Iranian born actress whom Scientology tried to groom as Cruise's girlfriend in 2004-2005.

MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN and Omarosa Manigault were secretly engaged and the wedding was set for this January.

HEIDI KLUM has moved on from Seal.

CHRIS EVANS & MINKA KELLY are dating again.

KIM KARDASHIAN's repeated attempts to befriend Beyonce have gone bust. Aw.

JOHN TRAVOLTA allegedly pressured his alleged gay lover to film a sex tape. Allegedly.

ELISHA CUTHBERT finally picked which NHL player she wants to marry.

INDIA: Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a high-profile party in Pune where over 300 youngsters were seen drinking, smoking and busy in all sorts of sleazy acts in the name of fun.

TURKEY: Turkish leaders accused Syria and Iran of supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has intensified its campaign in southeast Turkey after taking over dozens of villages in northern Syria this summer.

SYRIA: Italy's defense minister said the country would be ready to intervene militarily in Syria in the event that the Assad regime was ousted. Humanitarian concerns would be the primary focus, he said.

IRAN: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said the major world powers had not done enough to deter Iran's nuclear program and that they needed to set "a clear red line." The US moved ahead on additional steps to restrain Iran.

ELVIS reads Mom the riot act.

BUCK the BLACK LABRADOR traveled 500 miles to Myrtle Beach to reunite with his owner.

AN EPIDEMIC OF BEARS is expected to worsen in the West. 

WILD HOGS threaten the levees in NOLA.