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

Times are getting tough for the largest art museum in the world. While the astonishing news is that the Louvre is coping, the not-so-good news is that it is in danger of running into trouble by 2010. more info

All About Jazz — Paradox Trio creates original music inspired by Eastern European, Gypsy and downtown NY traditions cutting across stylistic and geographic boundaries such as Bulgarian kaval music, Klezmer and improv jazz. The band will play tunes from their new U... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Long-running German metallers PARADOX will release their fifth album, "Riot Squad", on October 26, 2009 via AFM Records. more info