BOB MOULD blasts through "The Descent" at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

BOB DYLAN is advance streaming Tempest via iTunes.

AMANDA PALMER is advance streaming Theater Is Evil.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

HUSKY swings by KEXP for a set of pastoral tunes from their most recent LP.

KNICKERBOCKERS: "Lies." Someday you're gonna be lonely.

PAUL SIMON talks to World Cafe about the making of Graceland.

CAT POWER: Chan Marshall briefly talks to Newsweek about the latest chapter in her life.

THE WORST MTV VMA MISTAKES, according to SPIN.

RORY & THE HURRICANES: Tapes from Ringo Starr's first band have been unearthed after more than 50 years.

BRITNEY SPEARS and her fiancé Jason Trawick have revealed how their relationship went from business to pleasure.

TOM CRUISE: Scientology calls the claim that they auditioned Nazanin Boniadi as Cruise's pre-Katie Holmes galpal "hogwash." Meanwhile, others claim the Cruise wifesearch included Scarlett Johansson and Lindsay Lohan.

AMANDA BYNES has been charged with two counts of hit-and-run, after allegedly smashing into some car and fleeing the scene ... twice.

JESSICA SIMPSON works on earning that Weight Watchers money.

JOHN MAYER & KATY PERRY left a romantic L.A. restaurant together Tuesday night.

ROBERT PATTINSON's sisters would kill him if he reunites with Kristen Stewart, according to RadarOnline.

KATE BOSWORTH confirmed her engagement on Twitter.

BAHRAIN: An appeals court upheld the convictions of 20 activists convicted of trying to overthrow the government. Leaders in the group were in "intelligence contact" with Iran and its ally Hezbollah.

EGYPT's Islamist leadership took a new move to put its stamp on the country's government, appointing members of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood as provincial governors and installing ultraconservatives and other Islamists in the state's top human rights body and a powerful media council. 

IRAN has resumed shipping military equipment to Syria over Iraqi airspace in a new effort to bolster the embattled government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, according to senior American officials.

A SEAL & A DIVER, holding hands...Mass hysteria!

A STOWAWAY CAT that beat the odds by surviving a three-week ocean voyage from China to California has found a new home.

A GIANT EARTHWORM has been discovered in China, measuring half a meter in length.

FOUR BABY TIGERS and more than 100 endangered pangolins were found in a car travelling through Hanoi on Tuesday.