All About Jazz — Lately, I've had the pleasure of getting into in-depth discussions with the thinkers behind Songkick, We7, and Slacker. It's been a great experience. One of the things that I've been bringing up in each of these talks is the nature of the mechanisms ... more info

ContactMusic — Metal rockers PARADOX have cancelled "all live activities" for the near future without giving fans any explanation.The veteran German rockers have been hit with... more info

All About Jazz — Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin) There's an essay I've wanted to write for quite awhile now, tentatively titled: Paradox or Paradise: Music Choice in the Digital Age; it would explore the topic as to whether or not the shift in the music la... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — If you are found mentally fit enough to stand trial for stalking a celebrity, as Zachary James Loring was today after over a month of psychiatric evaluation, then couldn’t you just be like “Look, I was stalking Audrina Patridge. From The Hills. H... more info

AOL Music — (April 19) -- Americans don't trust their government, but foreigners are feeling pretty good about America. That's the upshot of two new public opinion polls, which not surprisingly are being seized on as a referendum on President Barack Obama. Reall... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Steve Gullick UK experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear are on the forefront of the rejuvenation of jazz as a musical force that can cross-over to music lovers of other genres, or at least ot people who can handle buckets full of ideas that co... more info

Here Comes The Flood — When all the shopping centers of the Western world are blasting good time Christmas the urge to put on a really fucking loud Bay Area trash metal album is, well, a bit childish, but perfectly understandable. Heathen split in 1993 and returned to f... more info

PARADOXBBC1 Tuesday 9pm GAVIN & STACEY BBC1 Thursday 9pm GRACIE BBC4 Monday 9pm COP shows, shmop shows. We've had them all. Shows with girls, guns 'n' guts, to quote the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band for possibly the only time anywhere this year. Shows that more info

Scotsman.com — If the British film industry were in better shape, the words "Jane Horrocks IS Gracie Fields" would be appearing outside cinemas, the combination of star playing forme more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — Carnivores dating vegetarians. They go together about as well as milk and lemon, Alaskan beauty queens and New York liberals, alcohol and text messaging. Which is to say the combination, though horribly problematic, creates something so fiery, so ali... more info