JamBase — By: Dennis Cook With a long chain of broken hearts and the warbling songbird flutter of young Dolly Parton, Norway's Ane Brun is a just below the radar roots music jewel. Looking like a proper coal miner's daughter on the cover in her plaid shirt... more info

Wired - Listening Post — How does Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" go again? Sitting on a park bench/Listening to Dusty Springfield? No, that's not it. That's Nokia's new advertising stratagem, which jacks legendary music into benches from London to Leeds to Glasgow. It's an idea wh... more info

Idolator — Last night's episode of Life On Mars was a little bit heavy-handed script-wise for me, with the somewhat mawkish way that it handled its Important Statements About How Far Society's Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Have Come In The Past 35 Years (Comp... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: The Chum BucketSpinner.com: New benches in Britain will play songs from the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and Queen. No, 'Fat Bottomed Girls' did not make the cut. [NME]That Smiths reunion? Fugeddaboutit. [NME]A homeless man found P... more info

NME — Musical benches playing the songs of The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and Queen are being erected across Britain. more info

NME — Musical benches playing the songs of The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and Queen are being erected across Britain. more info

NME — Musical benches playing the songs of The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and Queen are being erected across Britain. more info

Totally Fuzzy — blackbeard said... Curtis Mayfield – Roots (Expanded Edition) (1971) David Essex - All The Fun Of The Fair (1975) - Out On The Street (1976) - Rock On (1973) Dusty Springfield – A Girl Called... [Visit the blog for the full post] more info

Buffalo News, New York — Shortly after her death in 1999, British-born pop and blue-eyed soul singer Dusty Springfield was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The moody album, with themes of alienation, wasn't what the artist envisioned when he began recording. It's just what developed. BECK'S rented recording studio... more info