KEXP Seattle — Perhaps no other artist has brought Eastern music to the West like sitar master Ravi Shankar. His tutelage of George Harrison in the mid-60′s kicked off a lifetime of cultural exchange. While rock bands like The Beatles were incorporating Eastern s... more info

People.com — The composer and performer who inspired the Beatles and other rock stars was 92 more info

ContactMusic — Pandit Ravi Shankar, the virtuoso sitar player, who inspired the 60s psychedelic movement through his collaboration with the Beatles, has passed away... more info

ContactMusic — Sir Paul McCartney is set to front Nirvana at the 12.12.12 concert in New York tonight.The legendary Beatles musician is to team up with the... more info

Topix — Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade career, died Tuesday. more info

ContactMusic — Famed Beatles producer Sir George Martin is to be recognised for his contributions to U.K. music at the forthcoming Music Producers Guild Awards.The... more info

The Independent — Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California yesterday, his family said. He was 92. more info

E! Online — The Beatles wouldn't have become the band they eventually were without Ravi Shankar. The iconic Indian sitar player and composer, who schooled George Harrison in Eastern music... more info

Impose Magazine — World-reknowned sitar player Ravi Shankar passed away last night at the Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego, where he was admitted last week for heart-valve replacement surgery after suffering upper respiratory and heart problems. He was 92 years ... more info

Chicago Tribune — Here are some of the more notable box sets of the season in rock and pop: more info