Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Johnny Depp has starred in a string of critically acclaimed blockbusters, but his personal career high was playing slide guitar on the song Fade In-Out Oasis album “Be Here Now.”Depp even gave Noel Gallagher a guitar during the recording ... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — This week the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were handed out in L.A. in advance of the March 7th award show. With ten nominations for Best Picture this year and all but locked up races for the Best Acting awards it was difficult to be too up... more info

Stereogum — Matador co-founder Gerard Cosloy lives in Austin when not taking care of business at the NYC-based label. If you recall, in 2009 his Lindell Avenue home burned down. Sad shit, but less than 12 months after that, he's put together the 19-track Casual ... more info

Live Daily — As loyal LD visitors know, we’ve really spiffed things up since this time last year – and part of the new look and feel has been the broadening of our live music photo content. Within a two year time span the live music photography t... more info

Guardian Music — John Paul Jones's career since Led Zeppelin has featured some impressive collaborations, none more so than his work with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme in Them Crooked VulturesWhen he was the bassist with globe-bestriding hedonists Led Zeppelin, John Paul... more info

Live Daily — Ska-influenced punk-rockers The Expendables [ tickets ] will hit the road early next year on a winter jaunt shortly after wrapping work on the band's fifth studio album. The Northern California group kicks off the trek Jan. 7 in Anaheim, CA, and w... more info

Live Daily — For the first time in 20 years, Revolting Cocks [ tickets ]--also known as RevCo are headlining their own tour. The group is about halfway through its itinerary in support of "Sex-O Olympic-O," its fifth studio album. Along with Al Jourgensen (gui... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sufjan Stevens, Yo La Tengo, Fever Ray, Os Mutantes, Butthole Surfers, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Jay Reatard, Macachu & The Shapes, Clues, Slim Twig, Think About Life, Cadence Weapon, Sam Shalabi's Egyptian Light Orchestra, Japandroids, The Do , ... more info

Said the Gramophone — Starting this Wednesday is Pop Montreal, one of the finest music & arts festivals in all the world, at least if you like the things we do. It is wild and woolly, joyously diverse, deep and wide and rich and poor and set in the heart of this great c... more info

Rock Sellout —     What’s In a Name? The overwhelmingly common course of action taken when naming your band is to make an attempt to capture the essence of your band’s music, your heroes or your politics, whether or not this attempt is made tongue in cheek or... more info