MTV.com News — 'People need lyrics and the warmth in live instruments and music to help them through their day,' she says of Stronger With Each Tear. By Shaheem Reid, with reporting by Tim Kash Photo: MTV News Mary J. Blige released Stronger With Each Tea... more info

Live Daily — In keeping with tradition, South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo [ tickets ] will return to the US later this month for an extensive two-month trek. The nine-man a cappella group will begin the outing with a Jan. 31 show in Ann Arbor, ... more info

All About Jazz — Jazz St. Louis has scheduled the next meeting of its CD Listening Club for 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 9 at Borders, 1519 S. Brentwood Blvd. in Brentwood.The featured CD for the February meeting will be Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key of Life (pictu... more info

Stereogum — NAME: of Montreal PROGRESS REPORT: Prepping False Priest ("I'm back and forth between The Controller Sphere, and False Priest") the followup to Skeletal Lamping, out sometime in August or September. Engineered by Jon Brion (probably). Featuring cam... more info

The Music Fix — Feature: The Dead Formats guitarist, Glenn Wizik, talks about what 2010 holds, Stevie Wonder and The Jam. more info

All About Jazz — By Tad Hendrickson Covering jazz usually relegates me to covering small club gigs and jazz festivals. Yet there was Esperanza Spalding playing after President Obama's acceptance speech during the presentation ceremony of his Nobel Peace Prize. (Go... more info

Perez Hilton — Justin Bieber, the BIGGEST selling artist on Island Def Jam over Mariah Carey, Rihanna AND Bon Jovi, was invited to sing Stevie Wonder's "Someday at Christmas" at the White House for President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. Justin is als... more info

MTV.com News — 'It was me telling R. Kelly to take the damn Auto-Tune off his voice,' singer clarifies of his Kells comments.By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Whitney McDonald Trey Songz Photo: Jason Kempin/ Getty Images Earlier this year, Tr... more info

All About Jazz — Ronnie Ray Padilla assembles an all star cast of jazz players, including members of Tower of Power Megawave and MVD Audio are proud to announce the CD release of Raydience - S/T on January 26, 2010. You know you have something special when current... more info

Guardian Music — The demand for a Clash/Public Enemy-style hero started dying out this decade. Yet MIA managed to fulfill this role without diminishing her status as a 21st-century pop starSurveying the best-of-the-decade lists, I was surprised to see MIA not featuri... more info