Rolling Stone — Photo: Buckner/Getty Metallica will reunite with former bassist Jason Newsted when the heavy metal gods are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Cleveland on April 4th, the Pulse of the Radio reports (via Blabbermouth.) C... more info

Perfect Porridge — Samahra, Black Blondie’s lead singer and tone-setter, is Minneapolis’ answer to Fergie and all the American Idol karoake wannabes out there. Upon listening to the group’s new album, Did You Remember Who You Wanted to Be?, it’s easy to tell t... more info

Guardian Music — (Polydor)There is something fabulous about the chorus to Heads Will Roll, the second track of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third album. For the first few minutes, yappy frontwoman Karen O sounds like an imperious 12-year-old. But then comes the chorus with its g... more info

8/1 — Motown, Dusty Springfield, Ronettes, Smiths, New Order, Kinks, Spector, Scott Walker, Sticky Fingers, There She Goes, Donovan, Blondie, Bobby D, Twisterella, Dionne Warwick, Minnie Ripperton, Lee and Nancy, Serge and Jane, Camera Obscura, el Perro de... more info

Pasta Primavera — Like the cube I asked when I read the mail in my inbox relating to London’s Rubicks and their new EP Red Rock due out in April.  No of course not the cube - the four piece band that distorts and electrobeats some great songs.  You could easil... more info

A Deeper Shade of Soul — Talking Heads seem to be in the air these days. Whether in their obvious influence in bands like Vampire Weekend, or David Byrne’s continuing influence as both musician and thinker, their legacy continues to resonate even more powerfully with... more info

Pop Bytes — † FROM DJ PAUL V. This week's mashup is so smooth and spectacular, it glistens. It has everything to do with one of my favorite new singers, Sam Sparro. The handsome ex-Aussie - and now Angeleno - dropped, hands-down, one of the most sub... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Blondie [ tickets ]'s founding guitarist Chris Stein went to the Big Apple in the early '70s to play in a band like the New York Dolls [ tickets ]. During a stint with The Stilettos [ tickets ], he fell in love with then-waitress Debo... more info

Guardian Music — They thought he was mad, they spat him off stage, he hit the drugs ... But Grandmaster Flash gave 'DJ' a whole new meaning. Andrew Purcell meets a man who scratched his way to the topWith hindsight, making a mixtape of old school funk and hip-hop for... more info

The Culture Of Me — Miami Horror aka Benjamin Plant has been behind the mask and made some of the quintessential bangers of the last 365 or so and he's taking his act out on the road, playing live sets all over North America (and a couple in South America too) in ... more info