Early Buzz: Elliott Smith, Tim Burton and more headlines

Hey, everyone — hope you've had a relatively low-stress week. As you may have seen, yesterday I kicked off our series "Mom & Pop," which features your stories about pop culture and (what else?) moms. I'm still taking submissions, if you're interested.

Yesterday I also posted another installment in "Kickstart Some Art," my monthly roundup of cool crowd-funding projects. Check that out if you haven't already; there are some fun campaigns happening right now.

Headlines:

- Watch a trailer for the new Elliott Smith documentary.

- Here's the story behind that number that appears in almost every Pixar film ...

- See a trailer for this weekend's Lego episode of The Simpsons.

- Pitchfork interviews Courtney Love.

- On the heels of a stormy week, Paul Simon and Edie Brickell released a new duet.

- Here's a cool gallery celebrating 40 years of the Ramones.

- A magazine has put half its issue in a time capsule and will reveal it in 2024.

- Watch the first four minutes of the new season of BBC America's In the Flesh.

- In time for May the Fourth, check out these Star Wars Vans.

- Adult Swim has renewed Childrens Hospital.

- Our pal Sean Murphy writes about 50 albums you may not know (but need to).

- I'm eager to see Tim Burton's Big Eyes, which comes out Christmas.

- The Black Keys have released a new song.

- Check out Echo & the Bunnymen's new video.

- And finally, kick off the day with new footage of Kim Deal and Kelley Deal playing Gigantic and Cannonball.