Guardian Music — (Brownswood)Pianist Elan Mehler has already made two albums for DJ Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label, accessible but cliche-avoiding sessions that sometimes resembled soundtracks to a romantic movie and which suggested classical music played with a ... more info

The 9513 Country Music — On Monday, Kyle Coroneos interviewed Roger Alan Wade, a country songwriter who has worked with George Jones, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash, and is related to MTV stuntman Johnny Knoxville. With those associations, it’s not surprisi... more info

Guardian Music — How a rebel shook up the country music establishmentThere's some wonderful YouTube footage of Kris Kristofferson receiving a gong at the 1970 Country Music Association awards. He lopes on stage with his hair covering his shoulders and his trousers ha... more info

The Music Fix — Bit hitting country fare for folks who find Johnny Cash a little bit rough. more info

MTV.com News — 'American Idiot' earns three nods, while the Jay-Z backed 'Fela!' gets 11.By Rochell D. Thomas, with additional reporting by James Montgomery Green Day Photo: Jason Kempin/ Getty Images It looks like Broadway could be the boulevard of fulfi... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Roger Alan Wade is a veteran country songwriter, having penned Hank Williams JR.’s hit “Country State of Mind,” as well as songs for George Jones, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Johnny Cash. He is mostly famous, however, for being the cous... more info

Guardian Music — The Johnny Cash ProjectFew online collaborative projects – such as Star Wars: Uncut, in which fans reproduce the original movie scene by scene – are as immediately satisfying and straightforward as this "living portrait" of the Man In B... more info

Allmusic Blog — Although best remembered as the author of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Where the Wild Things Are, Shel Silverstein also gained some notice as a songwriter during the ’60s and ’70s. Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” and D... more info

MTV.com News — We pore through Shania's country/pop catalog to find suggestions for the finalists.By Eric Ditzian "American Idol" top 6 with Shania Twain Photo: FOX Season nine's "American Idol" theme weeks have veered from the Rolling Stones to John Lenn... more info

411 Mania — From Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong", The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends", and Weird Al Yankovic's “Trapped In The Drive-Thru” to Between the Buried and Me's “White Walls”, Johnny Cash's “... more info