Rolling Stone — Last week, in honor of the Thin White Duke’s 63rd birthday, we asked for our readers’ favorite David Bowie songs. We tallied the votes, and not surprisingly, the Readers’ List reads like Changesbowie shuffled, with Bowie’s triumphant “Heroe... more info

MTV.com News — Relive Paula Abdul's exit, Adam Lambert's over-the-top AMA performance and more, in just a minute!By James Montgomery "American Idol" judges Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson Photo: Soul Brother/FilmMagic On May 2... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Today's the day! It's Elvis Presley's 75th birthday (and a happy 63rd to David Bowie too -- rock's original Martian monarch). To honor Elvis the musician, I've been sampling from the new boxed set "Good Rockin' Tonight" (reviewed here by... more info

Rolling Stone — Seventy-five years ago today Elvis Presley was born, and in 1947 a man named David Bowie arrived, too. (Also celebrating birthdays today: The Doors’ Robby Krieger, Jenny Lewis and R. Kelly. January 8th rocks.) As a gift to the Thin White Duke on hi... more info

Rolling Stone — British letters have acquired a taste for rock music. Yesterday, the Royal Mail released a set of 10 special stamps featuring classic British album covers including David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, the Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed, New Order’s Pow... more info

Tastes Like Caramel — There is not much that needs to be said about The Thin White Duke aka Ziggy Stardust aka glam-rock icon David Bowie (who also shares the same birthday as Elvis Presley!) Active since the 60’s Bowie has successfully tackled music, art, fashion, phil... more info

Guardian Music — A series of souvenir stamps has been issued by the Royal Mail celebrating such iconic British albums as Let It Bleed, London Calling and, er, A Rush of Blood to the Head?Enemies of Coldplay might not yet be able to send the band on a one-way trip to ... more info

Pop Justice — Eyes down, look in: » 1967: David Bowie writes a personal, quite moving five paragraph letter to a fan on the other side of the planet. (The Sun) (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2799510/Fan-finds-1967-note-David-Bowie-wrote.h... more info

A MOVING letter from David Bowie to US fan before he became a global star is revealed more info

Guardian Music — Pat Metheny's latest band are all robots. But can they keep up with his virtuosity?The jazz band at Manhattan's Legacy Studios is swinging: piano, vibes, bass, two guitars, percussion and drums in fast, syncopated flow. It's playing an effortlessly m... more info