FRIGHTENED RABBIT drops a video for "Backyard Skulls."

NEW RELEASES from Johnny Marr, Suuns, Sally Shapiro, and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN stops by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

JOSH RITTER is advance streaming The Beast In Its Tracks.  Or perhaps you'd prefer to hear (almost all of) it live.

CLOUD CULT is advance streaming Love.

SECRET MOUNTAINS is advance streaming Rainer.

IRON & WINE: Sam Beam displays “Grace For Saints And Ramblers” ahead of Ghost On Ghost.

LOW gets "So Blue" ahead of The Invisible Way.

COLD CAVE unleashes the title track to "Oceans Without End."

REDD KROSS play "Annie's Gone" and cover The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" for Twofer Tuesday.

BJORK albums, ranked by Stereogum.

JOHN VANDERSLICE talks to Billboard about crowdfunding, Dagger Beach, Bowie and more... (Thx, LHB.)

LOVE ON THE DOLE: 18 songs about being on government assistance.

JOANNA NEWSOM & ANDY SAMBERG are engaged. Yes, really.

LINDSAY LOHAN 's new lawyer has filed a motion seeking dismissal of Lindsay's lying-to-cops case on grounds she wasn't read her Miranda rights.  Is it true?  Meanwhile, she's got tax issues.

JESSICA CHASTAIN, once rumored to be dating Tom Hiddleston has been quietly seeing fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo.

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE tied the knot on Saturday with longtime boyfriend Martyn LeNoble.

JANET JACKSON secretly married Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana months ago.

BEN AFFLECK maybe blurted out too much information about his marriage at the Oscars.

KRISTEN STEWART recently sliced her foot by stepping on glass and was on... crutches at the Oscars.

MILA KUNIS talks about giving up acting for parenting.

MALI: A Malian army colonel said weapons seized in Gao indicate that Islamist forces in the north have the "capacity of an army" although they lack airpower. Signs have emerged of increasing cooperation among Islamist groups in the region.

SYRIA: The Syrian foreign minister said the government was willing to hold talks with the opposition on ending the country's civil war, the first time a high-ranking government official has stated it.

EGYPT: A military source said Egyptian authorities have no intention of negotiating with Salafists currently protesting the imprisonment of those behind the 2004 Taba bombings.

SPONGE DOG loves playing with a balloon.

TOXIC MICE are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy as part of the continuing effort to attack the island's brown tree snake infestation.

SHEEPHERDERS who abandon their animals on the open range could soon be guilty of a misdemeanor in Idaho.

A DOG was rescued from an ice floe in Lake Michigan.