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

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LargeHeartedBoy — The Observer names Jack White "rock'n'roll star of the decade." The Boston Globe interviews Ha Jin about his new short fiction collection, A Good Fall. Q. How did you return to the short story? A. I had intended for a... more info

Rolling Stone — Rolling Stone recently had a kind of stream-of-consciousness backstage chat with the Dead Weather where Jack White and Co. tackled topics ranging from time travel and geography to the art of picking band names and avoiding being sued (for instance, W... more info

Guardian Music — Jennifer Hudson isn't just starring in a Winnie Mandela biopic, she's singing the title track too. Leona Lewis is doing warbling duties on James Cameron's Avatar. Make sure to leave before the credits roll ...As the credits rolled on the first Spider... more info