Chorus.fm — Justin Pierre of *Motion City Soundtrack (http://absolutepunk.net/motioncitysoundtrack)* is heading out on The Dino Trail (http://www.motioncitysoundtrack.com/news/justin-pierre-dino-trail) to promote his band's new album, My Dinosaur Life. Info is i... more info

Guardian Music — CBSO Centre, BirminghamTwo premieres and the first performance of a major revision featured in the opening concert of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's season, conducted by Diego Masson. Alongside postwar classics from Maderna and Donatoni, ... more info

The Newsroom — Oils, inks and acrylics of all sizes but almost all in black go on show as France celebrates its best-known living artist, Pierre Soulages, an abstract painter obsessed with the power of black. Some 100 works spanning his career are on show at the Po... more info

For a major retrospective of the work of Pierre Soulages, 89, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris is dressed up with his giant, abstract, all-black canvases. more info

Starpulse — Beyonce looked dashingly ladylike at the 4th Annual Billboard Women in Music Awards held at the Pierre Hotel in New York City on October 2.[...] Read more! more info

MTV.com News — 'But I'm not taking any time off,' singer says about her upcoming solo tour.By Jocelyn Vena Lady Gaga at Billboard's Women in Music event at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Friday Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/ WireImage New York — Lady Gag... more info

Guardian Music — How will the girl group survive without any of its founder members?On the 2007 Sugababes tour, an official T-shirt bore the names of all its members, past and present: "Keisha & Mutya & Siobhan & Heidi & Amelle." In an amusing – if perhaps tel... more info

Stereogum — When posting a demo of ostensible Jail La La track "Over The Phone" I referred to Grand Ole Party singer/drummer Kristin Gundred, aka Dum Dum Girls, as a "nostalgic one-woman girl-group." It wasn't the first time I've said something to that effect... more info

Stereogum — When posting a demo of ostensible Jail La La track "Over The Phone" I referred to Grand Ole Party singer/drummer Kristin Gundred, aka Dum Dum Girls, as a "nostalgic one-woman girl-group." It wasn't the first time I've said something to that effect... more info

Pop Bytes — good morning! i'm feeling a little bit better than yesterday - i want to completely shake off this cold before my brother arrives tomorrow night from boston - i can't wait to see him! anyways the latest cover of STAR magazine is featuring drama for... more info