Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Weller closes ceremony with a career-spanning setPaul Weller has collected the final award of the night at the Shockwaves NME Awards tonight (February 24), picking up the Godlike Genius gong at the at the O2 Academy Brixton in London.Primal Scream's ... more info

My Old Kentucky — Sitting in the back room of Gerstle's – Backyard Tire Fire's bar room home of choice this particular evening – singer/guitarist Ed Anderson, bassist Matt Anderson, and drummer Tim Kramp are sucking on cigarettes, drinking some beer, and... more info

The Vinyl Villain — NO ELVIS, BEATLES OR THE ROLLING STONES....Much as I like some of what JC writes about most days on this fine blog, I feel he often paints a misleading picture of the music that what most men and women of his age were really listening to and enjoyin... more info

Guardian Music — You can't pretend to be hip while having one of your awards voted for by the viewers of GMTVAt risk of sounding like a party-pooping pedant, it wasn't actually the 30th anniversary of the Brits at all. The first Brits – or as it was then, the ... more info

ContactMusic — JENNIFER LOPEZ pulled out of playing a part in the pre-Super Bowl celebrity football game in Miami, Florida on Saturday (06Feb10), but called the coin toss.The... more info

Detroit Free Press — The two most famous inscriptions written above the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi were cautionary words of wisdom: "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much." Those bits of ancient advice are worth considering as two Hollywood st... more info

Sky News — Anti-whaling activists and Japanese hunters have blamed each other for another collision between their ships in Antarctic waters. more info

Stereogum — Like I said the other day, in times like these we judge not the artists who are joining to make whatever difference they can in reconstructing Haiti via their art, we just celebrate that it's happening. But Susan Boyle, Miley Cyrus, & James Blunt ... more info

Sky News — Firefighters and emergency service workers have clashed with police after a demonstration ended in a brawl in the Spanish city of La Coruna. more info

All About Jazz — Influential artists sometimes click in the public consciousness only after the rise of the movements they have influenced. A school of creative work emerges--seemingly spontaneously, its origins obscure at first. Then, with attention to the artists i... more info