Consequence of Sound — Plus, Questlove confirms new Roots album and collaboration with Elvis Costello more info

ContactMusic — Despite having been married twice since her death, Paul McCartney continues to show dedication to his first love and most prominent wife, Linda... more info

ContactMusic — Sir Paul McCartney has recorded a song for a television advert to promote his late wife Linda's successful vegetarian food range, the company... more info

The Independent — Elvis Costello has joined forces with Sir Paul McCartney to launch a campaign backing a new vegetarian range from the Linda McCartney Foods brand. more info

USA Today Music — Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney are fans of the Canadian singer/songwriter. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Faster Louder lists the top 10 Elvis Costello albums. Lynn Coady offers tips for holding a literary reading. 20 year-end music lists were added yesterday to the master aggregation, including the Independent's best album covers of the year. 41 lists..... more info

KEXP Seattle — Almost 15 ago I was honored through my association with The Stranger to be included ona Christmas Eve broadcast of This American Life with Ira Glass. The show was called “The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit,” a reference to the Elvis Costello song ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Skeeter Davis, the Carpenters, Elvis Costello and more: They know how you feel. Give them a listen before the apocalypse Friday (that is, if the Maya got it right).Dec. 21 marks end of the world, according to some interpretations of the Mayan calenda... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The New York Times profiles singer-songwriter Graham Parker. Before Elvis Costello, the Sex Pistols or the Clash there was Graham Parker and the Rumour, who anticipated the energy of punk and set the bar for smart, literate lyrics married to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Arriving on the mid-'70s London scene as a rough'n'ready product of the pub-rock era -- an R&B- loving Nick Lowe with a sharper, more ambitious pen, as it were -- Parker predated Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson,... more info