ROBYN HITCHCOCK and the EGYPTIANS play "I Got A Message For You," "Uncorrected Personality Traits" and "Listening to the Higsons" at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit Michigan on April 7, 1988.  Robyn drops a brief F-bomb between the first two, so careful.

THE STOOGES:  You can watch a live set via Yahoo! now.  They will be streaming their DC gig from NPR tonight, and on-demand starting tomorrow.

SON VOLT frontman Jay Farrar tells Metromix that he could see an Uncle Tupelo reunion... when they're in their 70s.  There's also a video of Farrar playing "The Picture" at the link.

THE MKOB COVERS PROJECT is back with a bang, streaming multiple covers of "Wild Horses" and "Ring of Fire."

LESLIE FEIST is asked five questions by Spinner.  She doesn't really answer most of them, but her non-answers are much more entertaining than the non-answers we get from other interviewees.

PHIL SPECTOR:  Prosecutors in the producer's murder case say they have new evidence that he threatened women with violence, including ranting at comic Joan Rivers' annual Christmas party that women "deserve to die. They all deserve a bullet in their ... head."

LILY ALLEN:  Posting her live cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" the other day reminded me to post the version of her single "Smile" recorded in Simlish -- the languaged used in The Sims videogames.  (Here's the original.)  Nor is Allen the only artist to have recorded in Simlish; bands like The Flaming Lips and Barenaked Ladies have as well.

YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME:  GvsB will hook you up with the trailer for this documentary about 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson's downward spiral.

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH, currently readying a trip to China with his wife to adopt a second child, talked to the Phiadelphia Inquirer about all things Devolutionary, including the impact his old band had on his 2½-year-old daughter: "After she went on tour with Devo last year, saw Dad in the yellow suit, she couldn't get enough. Between that, the Devo 2.0 (kids singing Devo songs) CD and live DVDS I have of us, she's a Devo fan. That's become her obsession. Devo was her first word. She knows all our songs -- choreography, too."

CAMERA OBSCURA:  Being the sort of person who cares what's on the flip side of a record pays off here, with the band's cover of ABBA's "Super Trouper."

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  For the first time in a decade, it's likely that the supposedly sober supermodel will not make FHM's annual list of the "World's Sexiest 100 Women."  A spokes man for the mag told Page Six: "I think the average guy on the street prefers someone that's a little more womanly," but with Keira Knightley set to score big on the list, one has to wonder whether her troubled singer-fiancee is not a factor.  Indeed, someone has made a Doherty action figure, complete with crack pipe.

BRITNEY SPEARS writes off Fed-Ex as her "biggest mistake," while her agents worry about her lack of focus.  That last link adds that there was no evidence of substance abuse; for those sorts of stories, you need to ask Kim Kardashian's publicist.  BONUS:  An upcoming episode of CSI:Miami will start with a starlet who shaved her head  and is killed during a stay in rehab.  Why not?  Fed-Ex guest-starred on CSI in October as a foul-mouthed gangbanger.

JOHN TRAVOLTA was forced to make an emergency landing in Ireland on Monday while piloting his private jet from Germany to New York.  Do you think he blames the Thetans?

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  The Tom-Kitten gets her hair done every week: "She is always naked and no one's allowed to talk around the baby," laughs a snitch.

COURTNEY LOVE:  Egotastic has a new photo gallery of her hideous liposuction job.

JESSICA ALBA, shooting a remake of the Japanese supernatural thriller The Eye, says, "It's a lot more interesting for me to play someone who is blind and a classical violin player than someone who is running around in the rain wearing a white T-shirt."  To her, maybe.  As for the violin playing in the movie, "All the notes are accurate. I am playing the actual notes of the music," she said. "But (on set), it just sounds like a cat in heat."

JESSICA BIEL has beaten Scarlett Johansson to the top of Stuff magazine's latest 100 Sexiest Women list.  Top Ten at the link.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON has insisted she is ready to bare all on the big screen for the right part, but for now, she is insisting on a no-nudity clause in all of her movie contracts.  A source is quoted by Britain's Daily Express newspaper as saying: "She doesn't want to fall into being too controversial or too trashy so nude scenes are out for now."

BRADGELINA:  Jolie's brother James Haven is again rushing to her defense... sort of.  Haven conceded that his sister likes to be the leader in her relationship with Brad Pitt: "All great leaders are controlling."

PAULA ZAHN is divorcing her husband of 20 years, real-estate developer Richard Cohen, and is said to be seeing a new man, Conti Group CEO Paul Fribourg.  That was fast!

NTTAWWT:  The cover of Out magazine's "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America" features two people who, afaik, are not actually "out."

HALLE BERRY, getting a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, wished "you all could be inside me right now to know how it feels."  And so did the assembled crowd.  Plus, she "officially" stated that she is an "emotional retard."

EASTER:  A British supermarket chain, in its attempt to sell more chocolate eggs, issued a press release saying that "many young people don't even know what Easter's all about," then claiming that the tradition of giving Easter eggs was to celebrate the "birth" of Christ.

IRAQ:  The security situation in Baghdad has improved enough that the Iraqi government is going to shorten the capital's imposed curfew; ABC's Terry McCarthy visited five Baghdad neighborhoods where the locals said life is slowly coming back to normal.  In the accompanying video report, McCarthy says the new strategy is having a "large and positive effect" so far.  The Fadhila Party, involved in negotiations over rejoining the governing coalition, is insisting on conditions for in exchange for its return.  Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's office has issued a statement denying that he opposes the draft de-Baathification law.  Blogger-documentarian J.D. Johannes has returned to Iraq; he has posted pics and video of the welcome he got from heavy machine guns, RPGs, mortar fire and two suicide truck bombers.

IRAN:  Pres. Ahmadinejad said Iran would free the 15 detained British sailors and marines as a "gift" to the British people, though he also criticized Britain for sending a woman to the Gulf: "Why don't they respect family values in the West?"  Just prior to the hostage release, a former member of the US military intell looked at the linkage to the fate of those five Iranian "officials," arrested by the US military in Iraq back in January.  Coincidentally,  Iranian TV reports that the US is going to let an Iranian envoy meet with the five Quds Force members captured in Irbil.  And this is all before Iran gets a nuclear bomb, so consider it a warmup; ol' Mahmoud is nobody's sweetheart.

A BABY DUCK feeds the carp in Japanese Koi pond.  Awww...

GIANT SQUID are appearing off the coast of northern California and apparently not promoting Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.  Video at the link.  BONUS:  The dateline for this story is Bodega Bay, CA.

A COYOTE wandered into the Quiznos sandwich shop at 37 E. Adams in downtown Chicago the other day.  Hardly the strangest thing you're going to see in downtown Chicago, but here's your video goodness.  There is also video of his release yesterday in Barrington, IL.  Having lived in Barrington, I can say he should fit right in.

FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS ride horseback under the influence of a controlled substance.

A SPIDER MONKEY escaped from a Mexico City zoo, but was busted for misbehaving on the bus.

DOGS are taking yoga classes in Seattle/King County, WA... though the first picture suggests they are in training for the wheelbarrow race.