Sweeping The Nation — Everybody knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact! This was the year of Abba winning Eurovision, the Osmonds being given their own week of prime-time BBC1 programming, Kung Fu Fighting, Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Cen... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Cornelius's Mellow Waves and Nicole Atkins' Goodnight Rhonda Lee are the two albums I can wholeheartedly recommend this week. Reissues include a 40th anniversary expanded 3-CD/1-LP edition of the Ramones' Leave Home and Roxy Music's Avalon on vinyl. ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Compared to the two years either side of it, 1972 is a fascinating transitional year. Paul McCartney got banned by the Beeb for Give Ireland Back To The Irish, Led Zeppelin got banned from Singapore for their long hair, John Lennon was nearly banned ... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Tuesday ClubFrom: EnglandBoo Hoo from the self confessed "Freaky Four" The Tuesday Club sounds like Blur if Damon Albarn didn't take himself so seriously; Wire if they reformed as a Britpop act with a tongue embeded in their cheek; Roxy Music... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Moon Duo's Occult Architecture Vol. 1, Porcelain Raft's Microclimate, and Surfer Blood's Snowdonia are all albums I can recommend this week. Vinyl reissues include the Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session and two Roxy Music albums, Avalon and For Your... more info

TMZ — Asia frontman John Wetton died Tuesday morning in his sleep after battling cancer ... according to the band.  Wetton was a fixture in the '70s and '80s British rock scene, playing with bands like King Crimson, Roxy Music, and Uriah Heep -- but… ... more info

Stereogum — NPR reports that Asia frontman John Wetton has died. Wetton, a longtime fixture in UK rock circles, played in a great many bands -- King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Roxy Music, Wishbone Ash -- before forming Asia. He had been suffering from cancer, and he d... more info

The Mirror — The death of Wetton, who played in a star-studded series of bands, was confirmed by the official Twitter account of Asia more info

Consequence of Sound — Everyone from Smashing Pumpkins to Roxy Music, Patti Smith to Radiohead have covered Shakey. more info

Stereogum — Pavement guitarist Scott Kannberg, also known as Spiral Stairs, celebrated his 50th birthday in August. This weekend, to mark the occasion, he’s holding a two-day birthday celebration at San Francisco’s The Chapel, and he enlisted Dirty Ghosts, a... more info