Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Beady Eye have announced their first live date of 2012. The band have confirmed they will perform at the Fuji Rock Festival at the Naeba Ski Resort in Japan over the weekend of 27-29th July.Tickets for the festival are on sale now and can be purchase... more info

Guardian Music — Lemmy advises fans against shelling out more than £250 for 15-disc compilation of early materialMotörhead have joined the list of bands imploring fans not to buy their latest box set. The groundbreaking metal act have blamed the Complete Early Year... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Paul McCartney got his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Thursday. Paul McCartney was joined by Neil Young, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall, Joe Walsh and Jeff Lynne at the ceremony. more info

Totally Fuzzy — Land Lovers have notions on being a pop band. They certainly play melodic enough songs with snappy words and some foot-tapping beats. They come from the tail-end of 2008, where they are about to release debut lo-fi homespun album Romance Romance. Th... more info

Guardian Music — Acclaimed singer-songwriter Jonathan Wilson tells Laura Barton why it's great to be from North CarolinaHair straggled, clothes creased, Jonathan Wilson is wearing the bewildered expression of the musician on tour. Sitting in the Roundhouse cafeteri... more info

Detroit Free Press — Ke$ha, the irreverent pop star known for singing about brushing her teeth with "a bottle of Jack" turns poignant while covering a song from one of music's great lyricists on the new four-disc "Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 5... more info

Guardian Music — This 23-year-old Brooklyn boy's fast and frantic sound suggests he has studied everyone from the Stones to the StrokesHometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Devin Therriault (vocals, guitar) plus band.The background: We almost missed out on Devin because we ... more info

Guardian Music — (Universal)Fifty years of Amnesty International are marked with this colossal, four-CD compilation of Bob Dylan covers – 75 tracks from as many artists, ranging from the trad (Pete Townshend's "Corrina, Corrina", the upbeat old-time of Carolina Cho... more info

Stereogum — Last night, St. Vincent took Strange Mercy cut “Cheerleader” to Conan, starting the performance out with a nice homage to a certain famous Elvis Costello moment. Watch the video down below. Strange Mercy is out now on 4AD. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Elvis Costello's Spectacular Spinning Songbook Tour will make a West Coast run this spring, including a return to the Wiltern, along with dates in Seattle, Portland, Ore., San Diego and San Francisco. more info