MTV.com News — Frontman explains how his new track's complexity leaves it open 'to a lot of interpretation.'By Kyle Anderson Billy Corgan Photo: MTV News Anybody who saw one of the Smashing Pumpkins' 20th-anniversary concerts last year would have already... more info

Pop Candy — We've all heard about new holiday releases from Bob Dylan and Tori Amos, but were you aware of A Cherry Cherry Christmas? more info

Stereogum — "Coca Cola"'s the lead track from Brooklyn songwriter Pepi Ginsberg's forthcoming East Is East, the ten-song followup to 2008's Red. (You might recall, "The Waterline," "Son.") She's said the new collection was inspired by wanting to discover "what t... more info

Guardian Music — Bob Dylan and carols is a cocktail that really shouldn't work – especially not in Latin. But Richard Williams finds himself seduced by a punk-Dickensian SantaThere used to be a civilised convention among reviewers – perhaps there still ... more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Sonic Youth, Beyoncé • Best of the Decade: The New Issue • Eminem, The Beatles: 2000s’ Best Sellers • Velvet Underground Chat With Fricke in NYC • Susan Boyle Breaks Chart Records • Bob Dylan’s “Little Drummer Boy”... more info

MTV.com News — Punk icons took best single, album and artists of the '00s in poll.By Gil Kaufman Green Day Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage Rolling Stone readers love Green Day ... a lot. In the magazine's Decade-End Reader's Poll, the Berkeley-bred punk-po... more info

Perfect Porridge — Old man Dylan has a new video to promote his 47th album (and first holiday record), Christmas In The Heart. This animated video for “Little Drummer Boy” was conceived and hand-painted by artist and filmmaker Jeff Scher. Unfortunately an... more info

Rolling Stone — Bob Dylan’s seasonal Christmas in the Heart continues to dole out visual gifts: the video for Dylan’s take on “Little Drummer Boy” has been unveiled on Amazon.com. This video is Christmas for the eyes, as artist/filmmaker Jeff Scher painstaki... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Matador announced that Fucked Up's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' charity single "should be available" from iTunes today (December 8th) (still waiting). As previously reported, the song is packed with guests, including Yo La Tengo... more info

Allmusic Blog — Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of the seminal Irish folk band the Clancy Brothers, died on Friday at a Cork hospital at age 74. The balladeer, who Bob Dylan described as “the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my life,” suffered from ... more info