Spinner.com — Filed under: NewsIt seems like this should have happened a long time ago, but on Jan. 29, rock 'n' roll icon Roy Orbison will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 1987 and whil... more info

8/1 — A standout track and the first single from Montreal's The Besnard Lakes' upcoming longplayer, The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night, Albatross has all the swagger of a Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac classic or Roy Orbison reimagined as a rollicking... more info

Allmusic Blog — UK singer/songwriter Findlay Brown’s first album, 2007’s Separated by the Sea, was a pretty good classically influenced (Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, CSN&Y) effort. Nice, but not too exciting. Not much to indicate that his next effort would rea... more info

Rock Sellout —     So, it's that time of year when everyone is sharing their “best of the year” lists. I wanted to be part of the fun, but I just want to say before you start reading that these are only my favorite songs of 2009, not the best. Yes, I includ... more info

Live Daily — In 1985, after countless hit records, Grammy nominations, American Music Awards, and gold and platinum albums, J.D. Souther [ tickets ]--one of the principal architects of Southern California country-rock--decided to walk away from his solo career, s... more info

NME - The Video Blog — 'I Drove All Night' is a song with an interesting history. Most people think of it as a Roy Orbison song - and it was originally written for him, in 1987. However, it was Cyndi Lauper who first had a hit with it, in 1989. Years later, Celine Dion at... more info

Pop Candy — We may have lost Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and most of the Sun Records legends, but Jerry Lee Lewis is still going strong. more info

Guardian Music — Grand Opera House, YorkWhen Richard Hawley sings, "I've soldiered on for so long," he could be referring to his bizarre trajectory from guitarist with indie bands Treebound Story and Longpigs to the nation's most in-demand 1950s-style crooner. Shroud... more info

Live Daily — There's no escaping the aura of The Traveling Wilburys, the power act created by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne in the the late 1980s. Monsters of Folk [ tickets ], an uber-group of M. Ward, My Morning Jacket's Jim... more info

Guardian Music — Richard Hawley has been called a modern-day Roy Orbison. The Sheffield crooner talks about fame, Pulp, his dad's death – and kicking a gargantuan drug habit.It has, Richard Hawley concedes, been an extraordinary few years. Actually, what he sa... more info