LargeHeartedBoy — The Globe and Mail interviews Tom Waits about his acting career. Do you find a connection between songwriting and making movies? Well, I think of myself as a director of movies for the ears. I've always been aware of theatre,... more info

Stereogum — The Academy has selected 63 songs that will contend for Best Song nominations for next year's ceremony, and among them are songs not written by Randy Newman. Paul McCartney and U2 -- "you may have heard of them" -- both made the cut, of course. Bu... more info

Rolling Stone — The Oscars have posted a 63-song short list of tracks up for consideration for Best Song, which includes Jack White’s “Fly Farm Blues” from It Might Get Loud and Karen O and the Kids’ “All Is Love” from Where the Wild Things Are. Chris Fe... more info

Allmusic Blog — Appropriately for the final year of the decade, 2009 seemed to be the 2000s in microcosm. Every trend of the past 10 years surfaced over the past 12 months: dance divas with irresistible singles mingled with the electro-pop and art-punk vanguard with... more info

MTV.com News — Jackson's brothers would like to be involved in a tribute, if it takes place.By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Matt Elias Michael Jackson Photo: Peter Still/ Getty Images Michael Jackson will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award f... more info

MTV.com News — Punk icons took best single, album and artists of the '00s in poll.By Gil Kaufman Green Day Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage Rolling Stone readers love Green Day ... a lot. In the magazine's Decade-End Reader's Poll, the Berkeley-bred punk-po... more info

MTV.com News — 'We had to call the women's prison every morning and tell them we were going to start firing guns,' Alison Mosshart says of the clip.By James Montgomery The Dead Weather's Alison Mosshart and Jack White Photo: MTV News Some of us here in t... more info

Addict Music — The busiest man in Rock Jack White is applying his musical talents to yet another group. more info

CMT — For Thanksgiving dinner this year, my responsibility was easy -- bring a few homemade side items. So I pulled down my Loretta Lynn cookbook, You're Cookin' It Country. Inside she wrote that Jack White told her that her yeast bread is the best bread h... more info

Pop Candy — Check out Whit's pop-culture links for Monday, Nov. 3. more info