The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Young KnivesFrom: Ashby-de-la-Zouch, United KingdomWhen a band who were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize with their second album decide to fund their new album via Kickstarter you know that the rules have changed. In asking their fans to fund th... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Emily Dickinson Archive features handwritten drafts of the poet's work. All Songs Considered streams Colin Meloy's cover of the Kinks' "Do You Remember Walter?," part of his tour-only covers EP. The Quietus profiles Danish producer Trentemoller. ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Decemberists frontman records fourth covers EP. more info

Impose Magazine — Cheap Time's Jeffrey Novak has released two solo albums outside of his Nashville project Cheap Time and both were flailing odes to avant-pop and its early 70s creators. On his third record, the forthcoming Lemon Kid, the tribute to Ray Davies is ... more info

Starpulse — The Kinks rocker Ray Davies fears gun crime levels in the U.K. are rivalling those in America. The musician has opened up about how he was shot during an attempted robbery while on vacation in New... more info

DrownedInSound — There’s a case to be made for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, along with OK Computer and the rather more obvious Modern Life Is Rubbish being direct descendents of this album Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Consequence of Sound — "I really do want to do something with Ray before we both decay and decompose." - Dave Davies. more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Two months away from the release of my first book.  As promised, here's another post from the book as it appears in print.  Enjoy!  More to come... **** Back in the 1960s, England had outlawed rock music.  The government needed to protect its f... more info

CNN Showbiz — The Beatles, the Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, the Kinks, the Clash, Oasis -- rock music's history is littered with bands marred by messy breakups. Even spending three decades on the road together seems no barrier to disharmony, as Peter Hook and his fo... more info

Starpulse — Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen has recorded a song for H&M's latest campaign. Tom Brady's wife will not only star in the high street brand's autumn/winter 2013 TV adverts, but she has also p... more info