Brooklyn Vegan — Cannibal Ox today in NYC * ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB * Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell's * Darlene Love @ BB King's * Brandon Ross @ The Stone * Mike Birbiglia @ Union Hall * Michael Brown Duo @ Barbes... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Jonathan McPhail Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King did a two night run in NYC last week at (where else?) BB King Blues Club and Grill on Thursday (11/29) and Friday (11/30). We caught the Friday show and pictures... more info

Guardian Music — Tempted to view the Stones bringing Florence Welch onstage as cheap credibility chasing? Their history suggests otherwiseYou might have sighed a little, surveying the latest reports of the Rolling Stones' 50th anniversary shows. So Florence Welch cam... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Want to hear Mick Jagger talk about the Beatles? Tony Bennett laud the genius of Louis Armstrong? B.B. King express his blues over the future of the blues? more info

Guardian Music — For those of us who grew up aping Mick and Keith in our bathroom mirrors, age hasn't withered our ardour for the boysI hope nobody's moaning about the Rolling Stones being too old to play. I still love them, and I don't hear any moaning about BB King... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — (via @tgault86) (via @charlieshaine_0fs) today in NYC * Jonathan Toubin @ Enid's * Strawberry Fields (Beatles Tribute) @ BB King's * Alex English, IGS, DREWWW, Rockman @ 285 Kent Happy Thanksgiving! A$AP Twelvyy was supposed to play Highline Ballroom... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — METZ in Chicago in 2011 (more by Grant MacAllister) today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Chicago @ BB King's * Saint Michel @ Le Baron * Francois K, Ital Tek @ Cielo *... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Deicide @ Gramercy Theater earlier this year (more by Jonathan McPhail) Floridian death metallers Deicide are on tour and hit BB King's tonight with Eyes of the Dead, Mahavatar (tickets). The show is part of a string of the dates... more info

411 Mania — From Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan to B.B. King, Randy Rhoads and more, 411's Jeremy Thomas concludes his look at the top 16 guitarists with #8 - 1! more info

Guardian Music — The great Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist BB King, was christened Riley B King in 1925, which explains the comic title of this authoritative British documentary on his long, impressive career. BB bore with dignity his exclusion by white s... more info