MSN Music — His songs and the boisterous performance standards he set directly influenced the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. more info

PopSugar — Chuck Berry has passed away at age 90, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. The St. Charles County police department responded to an emergency call at 12:40 p.m. on Saturday, and later confirmed on Facebook that the rock 'n' roll pioneer was "pronounced... more info

Reuters — PARIS (Reuters) - A vast collection of rare Beatles vinyl records, photos and other paraphernalia will go on auction in Paris on Saturday. more info

Reuters — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paul McCartney, who has waited decades to reclaim ownership of hundreds of the Beatles' songs, should wait a little longer rather than continue his U.S. lawsuit against Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, the defendant said. more info

Popdose — When you find out your professor also has a band, curiosity will eventually compel you to sit through a set of Beatles covers at the campus Ratskeller. But professor John Andrew Fredrick is a bit different. He looks like The Band’s Robbie Robertson... more info

BBC News - UK — A British rock and pop museum is reborn, with X Factor outfits alongside The Beatles and Bowie. more info

Stereogum — The Chainsmokers, the self-proclaimed "Nickelback of EDM," unleashed the musical apocalypse last week by releasing their Coldplay collaboration "Something Just Like This." This week, the song jumped into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, taking re... more info

Sweeping The Nation — At the time, 2002 was portrayed as a nadir for popular music. Alongside Westlife's peak of popularity, a decline in British interest in the Billboard Hot 100 and much hand-wringing about the effect of filesharing as the pop charts turned fifty ye... more info

MSN Music — Rod Stewart is in hot water after his wife Penny Lancaster posted a video that seemingly showed the musician carrying out a mock-ISIS-style “execution” in the Abu Dhabi desert before a show in the Arab Emirates. In the now-deleted Instagram clip ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — L.A.’s ad hoc Wild Honey Orchestra will expand its musical vocabulary for its next Autism Think Tank benefit show, moving beyond the catalogs of the Beach Boys and the Beatles that have been the focus of recent shows to salute yet another clas... more info