DIVINE FITS drop a video for "My Love Is Real."

NEW RELEASES from Ra Ra Riot, Bad Religion, Pogues, Parson Redheads and more are streaming this week at Spinner.

BEACH HOUSE sent an exclusive live session to The Current.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE stopped by WTMD for a Sunny Side Up session.

THE LAST BISON stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

R.E.M., playing "Radio Free Europe" and "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" for their network TV debut ... and Twofer Tuesday.

AC NEWMAN talks to PopMatters about going his own way and blending in to the band, about wanting to write complex music through using simplicity, and about his good fortune in being an introvert who makes his living on a stage in front of people.

CALEXICO: Joey Burns talks to the L.A. Music Blog about the band's lusher new LP, and bringing the Calexico sound to other artists. (Thx, LHB.)

TEGAN & SARA talk to The Guardian about their "unrecognizable" new direction.

BECK's 10 BEST SONGS, according to Stereogum.

TAYLOR SWIFT, after writing numerous angry breakup songs, is getting chapped over all the public mockery and jokes made about her love life.

MANTI TE'O will do his first post-hoax on-camera interview with the hard-hitting Katie Couric.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE was... wait for it... caught canoodling with his Your Darlings costar Erin Darke at the Sundance Film Festival.

SELENA GOMEZ & JUSTIN BIEBER have both added Justin Timberlake's scorned lover's anthem "Cry Me a River" to their set lists.

BILL MURRAY reads poetry at a construction site. In a hard hat.

VIOLENT HOLLYWOOD and the Death of Creativity.

THE BATMOBILE sold at auction for 4.6 million, tying the 2010 record set by the Aston Martin DB5 driven by Sean Connery in "Goldfinger."

ALGERIA: Two additional Americans were killed in last week's hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in Algeria, bringing the final US death toll to three. The US had rejected an offer to swap hostages for two terrorists held in US prisons, "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and "Lady al Qaeda" Aafia Siddiqui.

MALI: French warplanes bombed Islamist camps around Timbuktu and Gao. French Foreign Minister Le Drian said the French-Malian force is seeking "total reconquest" of Mali.

IRAQ: Recent statements by al Qaeda and its historical enemies in the Sunni tribal Awakening movement reflect each group's attempts to assert its interests amidst the deepening sectarian political crisis between Sunni Arab parties and the Shia-dominated central government headed by Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki.

A HORSE engineers his escape from the stable.

NOBODY KNOWS how it happened: an indoor housecat who got lost on a family excursion managing, after two months and about 200 miles, to return to her hometown.

DOG MOUTHS may not be as clean as conventional wisdom has them.

A CONFUSED DEER has joined a flock of sheep.