PATE REUNION UPDATE: Jon, Mike & Jon (and we hope Ron) will be retaking a stage July 5th... and I now have details from a presumably reliable source: There will be a potluck picnic from 12-3 p.m. at Brookside Park, Linden shelter; an all ages show (7-9 p.m.), and 21+ show (9 p.m.) at Whiskey River in Ames, IA. Be there or be squared! If you're on the Facebook, check in with the event page.

ELVIS COSTELLO got the Glastonbury crowd to "Pump It Up."

ADAM GREEN & BINKI SHAPIRO stop by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

MAPS is advance streaming Vicissitude.

JOSH ROUSE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS drop a couple of new songs on Brooklyn Vegan.

CALEXICO covers Love's "Alone Again Or" at Glastonbury.

KURT VILE, reluctant guitar hero and folk journeyman, is every bit as prodigious behind the wheel of a forklift.

THE PASTELS: Stephen McRobbie talks to Pitchfork about young fans, anti-twee sentiment and more.

T. REX's TOP TEN, according to Stereogum.

THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS, according to Entertainment Weekly.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Monsters University repeats atop the chart with 46.1 million; the 44 percent drop is better than the drops for either Brave or Cars 2. MU will likely finish as Pixar's fourth-highest grosser.  The real story may be The Heat placing with 40 million against a 43 million budget, as Melissa McCarthy helps Sandar Bullock to her biggest opening ever.  World War Z shows with 29.8 million; that's down 55 percent, but where some analysts thought this one would open, so pretty good for a second weekend.  The flip side of The Heat overperforming is White House Down debuting at No. 4 with 25.7 millio; that's a tad less than the similar Olympus Has Fallen and will likley gross under 100 million domestic against a 150 million budget. Ouch.  Man Of Steel rounds out the Top 5 with another 20.8 million and 248.7 million domestic (over 500 billion worldwide) against a 225 million budget.

JESSICA SIMPSON and fiance Eric Johnson have welcomed their second child, a baby boy named Ace Knute Johnson.

AVRIL LAVIGNE and CHAD KROEGER (Nickelback) tied the knot in a lavish wedding in the South of France.

LINDSAY LOHAN has been cut off Adderall in rehab.

JENNIFER LOPEZ performed at a birthday event for the leader of an authoritarian regime in Central Asia.

KRISTIN CAVALLARI & JAY CUTLER (a/k/a Jerkface) shared pictures from their honeymoon in Italy. SFW.

MICHAEL JACKSON paid off at least two dozen young boys, according to the ever-reliable Mirror.

CHINA: Paramilitary troops commenced round-the-clock patrols in the restive western province of Xinjiang, where clashes between security forces and Islamist Uighurs have claimed the lives of at least 56 people in the past few months.

SYRIA: Regime forces launched a major assault on rebel-held areas of Homs, which they have been trying to regain for a year. Saudi Arabia is thought to have recently speeded up shipments of heavy weapons to the rebels.

EGYPT: Huge protests across Egypt calling for the resignation of President Mohammed Morsi have continued, with sporadic outbreaks of violence.

AFGHAN president Hamid Karzai claims President Obama reportedly asked him to sign a security pact with the US within the next three months.

BUTTERCUP the DUCK is getting a new, 3-D printed foot.

HARRY THE HAMSTER is evicted in a love triangle blowup.

THE BIRDS: Residents in Fife have been warned not to feed seagulls following a series of attacks.

AN EAGER BEAVER is blamed for a a 20-hour Internet and cellphone outage last week in northern New Mexico. But we all know the squirrels put him up to it.