Mercury News, California — Martina McBride, B.B. King, ZZ Top, Toni Braxton, Nickel Creek also among the acts set to perform at the Saratoga venue. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — (photo via @seamusplaysguitar) Tickets for the free Converser Rubber Tracks Live Flatbush Zombies show at Music Hall of Williamsburg are available via Ticketmaster today at noon. Tickets for the Kelis show at Webster Hall go on AmEx presale today at.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Steely Dan @ Beacon Theatre, 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) Steely Dan, who played seven nights at Beacon Theatre last fall, will be on the road for most of Summer 2014 on tour. The "Jamalot Ever After" tour, as they're... more info

ContactMusic — Steely Dan's former singer David Palmer is suing the group over a royalties spat.Palmer claims his work on the band's early tracks helped to give the... more info

TMZ — They don't call 'em Steely Dan for nothing -- at least according to a former singer for the band, who claims the classic rock group stiffed him big time on royalties.David Palmer is suing the group, claiming his lead vocals on songs like "Dirty… ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Philip Pullman talks to the Telegraph about his twitter novel. Drowned in Sound interviews Annie Clark about the new, self-titled St. Vincent album. The Detroit News profiles singer-songwriter Stephen Malkmus. The Quietus reconsiders Steely Dan's Pre... more info

Consequence of Sound — Consider this the first volume of many to come. more info

Sweeping The Nation — The start of a very occasional series takes as its key point the obvious and undeniable fact that the list of NME covers on Wikipedia is the very best page on the internet. But why stop there? Why can't we chart the whole of pop culture by rise a... more info

Soul Sides — Here’s the deal: this song changed my life. It wasn’t the first hip-hop song I ever heard but it was the first one that really made me want to find everything I could that sounded like. It was my gateway drug into hip-hop which would irrevocab... more info

Topix — Walter Becker, left, and Donald Fagen of U.S. rock group Steely Dan perfom in the Stravinski Hall stage at the 43nd Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, Saturday, July 4, 2009. more info