ELBOW:  The first single for the Manchester combo's next album, "Grounds For Divorce," was on the Tube for a few days before it was yanked, but fortunately, it's a world...wide... web.  Might take a moment to load and won't autoplay, but right there for you.

NEW RELEASES:  Bob Mould, Sons & Daughters, Lightspeed Champion, Hot Chip and more are streaming in full this week via Spinner.  Singer-songwriter Basia Bulat is getting plenty of sweet, sweet blog buzz for her Oh, My Darling.  BSSer Jason Collett drops his solo LP.  Kelley Stoltz releases Circular Sounds -- his first album for Sub Pop.  Adele -- a 19-year-old topping the UK charts and touted as "the next Amy Winehouse," but without the drama or the Dap-Kings, is streaming her debut via MuchMusic.

GANG OF FOUR are continuing to record new material.  Bassist Dave Allen tells Billboard: "The biggest surprise is that we've been capable of getting back to our roots. A whole bunch that we've done sounds like 'Entertainment!' (their 1979 debut album). It's more aggressive, more angular."  Drummer Hugo Burnham is sitting out the sessions due to unnamed health issues. "Hugo's still involved in some ways, but it's a very personal issue that will be discussed at a later date," Allen says.<br clear="none" />

LOUIS XIV stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

NICK CAVE:  PopMatters takes a long look at "The 21st Century Love Songs of Nick Cave," many of which were written (ironically enough)  after Cave turned off his computer and returned to writing in notebooks and with a manual typewriter.

ARCADE FIRE is considering suing the FOX network for using "No Cars Go" in a NFL promo without permission during the Super Bowl.

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED:  I again managed to miss the anniversary of the small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, a/k/a "The Big Bopper."  In memoriam, here is Buddy Holly and the Crickets playing "Oh, Boy!" on the Ed Sullivan Show, Richie Valens playing "Ooh, My Head!" and the Big Bopper with his signature, "Chantilly Lace."  And that's Threefer Tuesday.

MENOMENA bassist/co-lead vocalist Justin Harris talks to Matt at YANP about album flow, the band's multi-instrumentalists, and more.

PHOSPHORESCENT did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter; three of them are previously unreleased.

LAST.FM has cut a deal with all four major record companies which will give users access to any song they like and stream it for free (three times) thanks to ad revenue that will come from page views and demographically-specific videos.

AMY WINEHOUSE is getting set to go to the Grammys, leaving rehab Monday to go to the US embassy to renew her visa.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  Lawyers for the pop wreck tried to convince the Commissioner that Britney "feels hatred" toward her dad, doesn't trust him and wants him removed as co-conservator.  The Commish wasn't convinced that Andrew Streisand, the second cousin of Babs, was properly retained by Britney, but we learned that the Spears estate is worth 40 million.  The end result of the hearing?  Jamie Spears is still the co-conservator of Britney's estate, as is Andrew Wallet through Valentine's Day.  Sam Lufti is under a restraining order, barring him from contatcting the pop tart.  ALSO:  Fun rumor of the day?  Spears is "on the edge" after discovering sex tapes were stolen from her Beverly Hills home.

KIRSTIE ALLEY is Keeping Scientology Working in a jargon-filled interview for one of the sect's in-house magazines.

PAM ANDERSON is to strip on stage at Paris' Le Crazy Horse cabaret club on February 13 and 14.  This was inevitable, wasn't it?  Anderson is said to be "in discussions" about whether or not she will appear fully nude in the finale.

ELLE MACPHERSON is the new cougar in town, according to the NY Post's Page Six, which claims the 44-year-old supermodel is dating 21-year-old Vito Schnabel.

COURTNEY LOVE credits Orlando Bloom with helping her to stay off drugs by introducing her to Buddhist chanting.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie took to the stage at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to discuss her career and reveal a few candid nuggets from her off-screen life, including comments on her estranged father Jon Voight, ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton, and more.  Reporters were told not to ask about reports that she is expecting.

ANGELA KINSEY from The Office blogs her pregnancy, hangin' with Jenna Fischer in NYC, winning at the SAG Awards, and more...

SELMA BLAIR regrets chopping off her long hair, because she is regularly mistaken for Tom Cruise.  Ouch.

JIMMY KIMMEL reveals his thoughts on the Matt Damon-Sarah Silveman video sprung on his fifth anniversary show.

THE OSCARS:  At The Envelope, Jim Brooks and Tom O'Neil (even more so) list notable Oscar snubs.  At Newsweek, Marc Peyser argues that "The Oscars Must Die."

BOND GIRLS:  The best and worst are the subject of a poll from the Daily Mail, and of a similar gallery at Entertainment Weekly.  Shirley Eaton/Jill Masterson wuz robbed!

DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY:  Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

WIKI JIHAD:  There are people trying to get pictures of Mohammed removed from the Wikipedia.  It appears that Wikipedia is standing its ground.

THE STANS:  US intell sources are reportedly claiming al-Qaeda nuclear weapons expert Abu Khabab al-Misri was the real target of last week's CIA airstrike in northern Pakistan which is said to have killed one of the terror network's key leaders, Abu Laith al-Libi.

IRAN accused France of adopting an "unfriendly" position in Tehran's nuclear row with the West, and said that the military base Paris was setting up in the Gulf would harm peace in the region.

IRAQ:  US troops killed 15 suspected militants and detained 26 more in raids against AQI north of Baghdad and in Mosul.  There were 12 EFP attacks against Coalition Forces in January - the highest monthly total in more than a year.  Baghdad is drowning in sewage, thirsty for water and largely powerless, an Iraqi official said on Sunday in a grim assessment of services in the capital five years after the US-led invasion.  The "surge" ops  are allowing services to be gradually restored.  Demand for electricity was likely to outstrip supply for several years, in part because Iraqis were increasingly buying electrical appliances as the security situation improved.

FLOCKE UPDATE:  The current cuddly polar bear cub gets to see himself in a mirror.

IRISH SETTER KELLY has had a record-breaking 16 pups; Her owner Dee Farndell claims a diet of battered cod was the secret.  Pics of puppies(!) at the link.

...AND THERE WERE PIGS all over the highway.  Video at the link.

A 5-METER LONG, 100Kg PYTHON sleeps with a seven-year-old Cambodian boy.  Nothing tragic about it.  Yet.