Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Rock legend and Big Issue cover star Bob Dylan has revealed Robert Burns' song 'A Red, Red Rose' is his most inspirational track, on a celebrity calendar to raise cash for CLIC Sargent.The singer is one of 18 celebrities who have revealed whch song h... more info

Guardian Music — The epoch-defining charity single drew a line under the fragmented UK music scene, and brought us into the modern era – for good or for illNext time you watch the video for Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas – and given that the sin... more info

411 Mania — The White Stripes, Drive-By Truckers, Bob Dylan, OutKast, Animal Collective and others score best reviews of the decade... more info

Guardian Music — The demand for a Clash/Public Enemy-style hero started dying out this decade. Yet MIA managed to fulfill this role without diminishing her status as a 21st-century pop starSurveying the best-of-the-decade lists, I was surprised to see MIA not featuri... more info

Guardian Music — Bass player and key figure in the US bluegrass sceneJack Cooke, who has died aged 72, was one of the most familiar faces on the US bluegrass scene for almost 40 years. As a young man he played and sang with Bill Monroe, the Stoneman Family and other ... more info

MTV.com News — Pitchfork names Spike Jonze-directed short film one of its top music videos of 2009.By Larry Carroll Kanye West in Spike Jonze's "We Were Once a Fairytale" Photo: Vimeo.com These days, any comment from Kanye West is sure to get attention. ... more info

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