Guardian Music — John Lewis's Christmas TV commercial evokes childhood with folk cover of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' MineJohn Lewis is launching a Christmas TV campaign that aims to evoke childhood with a folk cover version of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine â... more info

The Playlist — Here's our theory on Paul Greengrass' Iraq war thriller, "Green Zone," starring Matt Damon as a U.S. Army officer whose discovery of covert and faulty intelligence leads him to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons on Mass Destruction in an unstable regio... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Thanks to Pitchfork for giving me the best news of the week: Spoon's upcoming seventh LP has a name, a tracklist, and a birthdate! Transference drops via Merge on January 26th. Seasoned Spoon concert vets will probably recognize the tracklist, whic... more info

Rock Sellout — Geneva While listening to Russian Circles’ latest album, Geneva (out today on Suicide Squeeze), I couldn’t help but see some parallels between it and my current vodka of choice, Svedka.  Its super distilled, has a clean, crisp taste and a smooth... more info

Rock Sellout — I have been going back and forth on this for a while. I wanted to do something personal on the site, the question was how would I do this and how to go about it. Me and a lot of the people on here have a deep seeded love of music and when we talk a... more info

Guardian Music — The Byrds' I Come and Stand at Every Door is a hypnotic and haunting song, told from the viewpoint of a child incinerated at HiroshimaThere's no intro, just a chiming chord and straight into the vocal: "I come and stand at every door, but no one hear... more info

Thrash Hits — Destruction The Curse of the Antichrist - Live In Agony AFM Records 25 September 2009 By Stephen Milnes The live album is a curious beast. Many can feel rather soulless and synthetic, a poor imitation of actually being at a gig. Hearing the crowd ove... more info

Pop Candy — A couple weeks ago, patrickrlewis started a thread in the Pop Candy Forum that I loved. His topic: "What are 10 CDs you can't live without?" Answers included GNR's Appetite for Destruction, Grizzly Bear's Yellow House and everything in between. more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Faustine Cornette Saint Cyr LA quartet The Willowz are into fast-paced short rock songs. Their new album Everyone is a barn stormer tearing through ten songs in less than half an hour. They have added a few slower songs in some of their songs... more info

TMZ — An Oscar-winning rabbi is condemning the actions of Jane Fonda, Danny Glover and Eve Ensler -- claiming their decision to boycott the Toronto International Film Festival is "an attack on the heart and soul of Israel."It's all over a program feature... more info