L.A. Times - Entertainment — Seventeen years after “Songcatcher,” filmmaker Maggie Greenwald offers another sensitively crafted period melodrama with “Sophie and the Rising Sun,” set in South Carolina during the weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Di... more info

XLR8R — On January 27, Gioele Giacopelli (a.k.a. JWL) and Giovanni Ferretti (a.k.a. INNO) will land on Soundscapes Records with Escape Series 003. The third in the series follows outings from Felipe Valenzuela & Argenis Brito, Yapacc, Cesare vs. Disorder ... more info

Detroit Free Press — John Grisham is tops in fiction; Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard No. 1 in nonfiction.             more info

Detroit Free Press — Nicholas Sparks is tops in fiction; Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard No. 1 in nonfiction.             more info

NME — Live LP features 31 tracks recorded across two gigs in 2000 more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Ian Chainey Teruo Nakamura Jazz bassist/producer Teruo Nakamura will be playing two upcoming shows with his Rising Sun band that will focus on material from his albums Rising Sun (1976) and Manhattan Special (1977). Both will take place at... more info

Destination Out — SUN IN THE EAST FREE FORM SUITE, SECOND MOVEMENT Masayuki Takayanagi and New Direction for the Arts Free Form Suite Three Blind Mice : 1972 MT, guitar; Kenji Mori, reeds; Hiroshi Yamazaki & Joe Mizuki, drums, percussion. Dear C, We recently came…... more info

Starpulse — The only important question for The Originals is: how do the writers make the originals sympathetic and relatable protagonists? The originals were the villains of The Vampire Diaries for far too lo... more info

Popdose — Aerosmith arrives in Japan to boost the morale after the devastating earthquake/tsunami. more info

ContactMusic — Animals rocker Eric Burdon has signed a deal to pen a third edition of his memoirs.The House of the Rising Sun singer will release Breathless through... more info