L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — It's never too early to get the young'uns comfortable with the idea that at some point between the ages of 15 and 20 a significant other will most likely instill in them a lesson in absolutely brutal heartbreak. So when... more info

Pop Candy — Sesame Street loves its celebrity cameos, and this week the children's show has a whole bunch of them lined up to kick off its anti-bullying ... more info

Cross Rhythms — T Bone Burnett produces live album with Elvis Costello, Elton John and many more more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin [Elvis Costello & The Imposters] were barely a third of the way through [their set] and had already played "Radio Radio," "No Action," "Miracle Man" and "(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding," as... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Greg Cristman Elvis Costello's cancelled and then doubly rescheduled date happened last night (10/6) at Wellmont Theatre in NJ. The show featured the great songwriter's now infamous Spectacular Spinning Songbook. Pictures from the wheel-gen... more info

Guardian Music — The X Factor has sent me running back to Treme. The music it celebrates is music with texture, with splinters and whorls, black-toothed and split-lippedI started watching Treme around the same time as the new series of The X Factor began. They have m... more info

Guardian Music — REM boasted a mix of commercial reach and off-the-wall creativity – few artists pull off such a delicate balancing actLongevity can be cruel. If REM had parted ways after Bill Berry left in 1997 – or even, as nearly happened, before the completio... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Documentary profiling the life of legendary country music star Johnny Cash, who died in 2003 shortly after completing the retrospective Unearthed, a five-CD set of the acoustic performances with which he resurrected his career in the last decade of ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Girls is an indie rock band from San Francisco, California. Made up of two key members, Christopher Owens and Chet "JR" White. The band's lead singer, Christopher Owens, is a former member of the Children of God cult. The New York Times compared... more info

VH1 Blog — Sometimes a band sounds exactly how you expect them to. Judging from the You Oughta Know Live set that they recorded in our offices, Dawes is just such a band. Even before they began playing, we watched the quartet try to recall, without Google, with... more info