411 Mania — Is it time for Rush and Deep Purple to finally get their spots in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year? Or should the Public Enemy and N.W.A. kick the doors down for extremist rap? All this and more covered this week in Ask 411 Music! more info

ContactMusic — Heavy rock legend Ritchie Blackmore will follow John Lydon and Axl Rose's examples if Deep Purple are chosen among the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class... more info

Dlisted — Mitt Romney's team is frantically writing a speech where he'll promise to allow stolen necklaces as a tax write-off for jooree thieves and give out "buy 1 8-ball, get 1 8-ball" free vouchers to cokies, because he might be close to losing th... more info

411 Mania — It's not his thing… more info

Time — The nominees for the 2013 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, and I’m pleased to report that it’s an impressively diverse slate. Besides the artists like Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Heart, and Deep Purple with rawk-and... more info

Guardian Music — Indie revivalists who namecheck Cantona and Sega but seem to be trying too hard to spoof too many thingsReading this on a mobile? Click here to listenHometown: London.The lineup: Martin Bowman (guitars), Andrew Wagstaff (vocals), Simon Oldham (drums)... more info

411 Mania — Do you approve of these choices? more info

E! Online — For Rush, all those years living in the limelight will hopefully lead them to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Canadian power trio is just one of several artists who have been... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Kraftwerk at MoMA in April (more by Greg Cristman) The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2013 nominees: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Albert King, Kraftwerk, The Marvelettes, The... more info

Guardian Music — German electronica pioneers would be the first all-synth group to join the Hall of Fame if inducted in 2013The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could next year be joined by the most un-rock'n'roll group to be commemorated in the Cleveland museum. Among the... more info