Guardian Music — Normally you'd only find this sort of thing lurking late at night on BBC2Guitar nerds will no doubt be queuing round the block for this summit of legendary axemen from across the generations: Led Zep's Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and Jack White of the ... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offPublic Image Limited Religion II PiL's pre-Christmas shows proved that John Lydon should not be remembered either as panto punk or eccentric butter salesman, but as arguably... more info

Troubled Souls Unite — 50 - 41 can be found here40. The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)While White Blood Cells established The White Stripes as a force of minimalistic alternative rock, Elephant showed a band who's repertoire went deeper than three power chords and a bas... more info

BBC 6 Music — Led Zeppelin guitar hero discusses upcoming documentary with Jack White and The Edge more info

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