MTV.com News — British singers Leona Lewis and Adele round out the lineup.By Jocelyn Vena Kelly Clarkson Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage After a five-year hiatus, the divas are back and this year there's a new crop of pop stars set to claim that title. ... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Between the Notes, Canada It's difficult to imagine Montreal's Anglo music scene sans Arcade Fire. Before them, the bilingual city's English-language musical legacy consisted primarily of '80s relics Men Without Hats and Corey Hart, alt... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Plankton said...Hospice by The Antlers - a record that harnesses the harrowing, beautiful truth familiar from Electro-Shock Blues and the stunning spectral obsessions of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea...http://www.monktonvsplankton.co.ukMr Moodswings ... more info

Guardian Music — Art-pop, glam rock and a shared love of 19th-century socialism: it's good to have Cornershop's Tjinder and Ben back. But where on earth have they been for the last seven years, asks Sylvia PattersonThe Candid Cafe in Islington, swish north London, is... more info

Soul Sides — From the time he was 10 Michael Jackson grew up in front of the world - first wonderfully, then weirdly, then woefully. His death at just 50 is hard to quite process. A tragedy? Yes but I'm not sure if it's any more tragic than the grotesque implosio... more info

411 Mania — Madonna, Eddie Van Halen, Mariah Carey, John Legend, Celine Dion, Wyclef Jean, Whitney Houston, Gloria Estefan, Dick Clark, "Soul Train", Motown and the Rock Hall talk about Michael... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Madonna, Celine Dion and Beyonce have proved women are still on top in the music industry - they have been named the world's highest earning musicians. more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Devaney/WireImageFemale artists ruled Forbes‘ Top-Earning Musicians list of the year, with Madonna, Celine Dion and Beyoncé taking the top three spots. Madonna, who set records with her sold-out Sticky & Sweet tour and had worldwide success... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Jake Thee Pope said...24 tracks of prime 80's Japanese hardcore:THE EXECUTE – Save Your Money (Bootleg Discog/Compilation, 2003)Thanks Fuzzy.http://spendingloudnight.wordpress.comNosi said...Diana Ross: Touch Me in the Morning (1973)http://sup... more info

Guardian Music — Diane Warren is pop's go-to woman for power ballads – and the writer of this year's UK Eurovision entry. But why do her own songs make her feel sick?A year ago, Diane Warren knew almost nothing about the Eurovision song contest, something most... more info