Rolling Stone — • American Idol Expands to Top 13 With Wild Card Top stories from the last three days: • Chris Brown Charged With Two Felonies • Michael Jackson Confirms 10-Date London Run • The Beatles: Rock Band Due 9/9/09 • Eminem Confirms Two 2009 Albu... more info

Pitchfork — Music videos are at a weird point in their evolution right now. Thanks to the internet, we can watch basically any video ever made whenever we want. But now that MTV has become an entire network devoted to dating shows from third-tier celebrities, th... more info

Rolling Stone — While radio stations across America wrestle with what to do with Britney Spears’ kinda-explicit “If U Seek Amy,” one station in Alabama is fighting its own censorship battle, thanks to the Eagles. Idolator tipped us off to the Birmingham Weekly... more info

Idolator — The Birmingham Weekly reports that local classic rock station Eagle 106.9, with no prodding from the FCC or corporate higher-ups, censors the Eagles' "Life In The Fast Lane" to remove the "god" from the line "We've been up and down this highway / hav... more info

A Walking Disast3r — Here is the list for this year's Waterloo Records In-Store appearances during South By Southwest:Thursday March 19th:2:00 P.M.- Department Of Eagles3:00 P.M.- Raul Malo4:00 P.M.-Jason Isbell5:00 P.M.- Howe Gelb of Giant Sand6:00 P.M.- Ian McLaganFrid... more info

Allmusic Blog — Prince’s upcoming release, a three-disc package comprising two new albums (LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND) and one disc from his new artist, Bria Valente, will be released exclusively by Target on March 29th. While artists such as AC/DC and the Eagles ha... more info

JamBase — By: Dennis Cook One of the more enduring chapters in modern American music is the lovely stretch of recordings that came out of California in the early 1970s, a period that saw the emergence of Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Michael Nesmith, The ... more info

All About Jazz — Prince is coming to a Target near you. The superstar is releasing a three-disc CD set through the retailer at the end of this month. The set will include two new albums — "LOtUSFLOW3R" and "MPLSoUND" — as well as a third by his new artis... more info

Pitchfork — If you come face-to-face with a life-size cutout of a silk-scarved funkateer of indeterminate age (and, sometimes, gender) the next time you go shopping for discount housewares, don't be alarmed. It's just the forces of commerce at work.Billboard rep... more info

JamBase — RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS ANNOUNCE 2009 TOUR PLANS HEADLINING MARCH DATES INCLUDING SXSW PLUS JUNE TOUR WITH RISE AGAINST AND RANCID NEW ALBUM UNDERNEATH THE OWL, OUT MARCH 10 ON VOLCOM ENTERTAINMENT Riverboat Gamblers Austin-by-way-of-Denton, TX's Riv... more info