The Lemur Blog — Ratatat's LP3 has spawned two more clips to their songs that once again makes good use of old phootage. Both Flynn's and Shempi's psychedelic qualities are being pronounced, to their advantage, to a stunning and intriguing effect. It's slightly distu... more info

Mercury News, California — It's ABBA's "Dancing Queen" versus the Fugees' "Ready or Not." It's Merle Haggard versus the Stones, the Beach Boys versus Kanye West, and Neil Diamond versus U2. It's Sinatra versus Sinatra. more info

Said the Gramophone — Witchies - "Royal Blood" Among the potential pitfalls of privilege as enumerated by the Witchies are idleness, illness, death by murder. "Woe betide," the Witchies warn heirs and royal scions, though the same antiquated imperative might be directed... more info

Pitchfork — The world's four biggest music corporations-- Universal, Warner, EMI, and Sony BMG (soon to be Sony Music Entertainment Inc.)-- have teamed with MP3 player and memory card manufacturer SanDisk to create a new music media format called slotMusic.Here'... more info

Former ABBA star Bjorn Ulvaeus has kept hold of $12 million after winning a court case against Sweden's national tax authority. The star was victorious in his appeal against his native country's tax [...] Read more! more info

Starpulse — Former ABBA star Bjorn Ulvaeus has kept hold of $12 million after winning a court case against Sweden's national tax authority. The star was victorious in his appeal against his native country's tax [...] Read more! more info

Altsounds — *(Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Milpitas, CA – October 15, 2008) *––The world’s four largest music companies and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading seller of MP3 players and flash memory cards in the U... more info

Altsounds — *(Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Milpitas, CA – October 15, 2008) *––The world’s four largest music companies and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading seller of MP3 players and flash memory cards in the U... more info

NME — ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus has won a lawsuit against the Swedish national tax authority. more info

Idolator — No, really. Let's look at the nominees for this year's awards, which will air Nov. 23. And remember that each category only needs to be filled out with three nominees. Not a big number, especially in a year with so much music, right? Well, first we h... more info