USA Today Music — Check out an excerpt from 'Songs That Saved Your Life.' more info

The Independent — First he succeeded in turning LA's Staples Centre vegetarian. Now former Smiths frontman Morrissey has refused to appear on an American TV chat show because his fellow guests are "animal serial killers". more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy! Deirdre O'Callaghan The National has just announced the followup to 2010's critically acclaimed High Violet will be released this May via 4AD. The band (which, in case you were unaware, is the contemporary New Yo... more info

411 Mania — From the Rolling Stones leaving Bill Wyman in the cold and Johnny Marr telling Smiths fans to move on to Frank Ocean's new song, Pitbull beating Lindsay Lohan in court and more, 411's Sean Comer breaks down the Right, the wRong and the Ridiculous fro... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — This week's marquee releases feature musicians better known for their work with other bands, Atoms For Peace's AMOK (with Radiohead's Thom Yorke) and Johnny Marr's The Messenger, the first solo album from the former Smiths' guitarist. Among the week'... more info

411 Mania — It won't complete their lives... more info

ContactMusic — Johnny Marr is creating his own ''archetype'' with debut solo album.The former Smiths guitarist admits he often disagreed with his former bandmate... more info

411 Mania — Even though he was told not to... more info

ContactMusic — Morrissey’s sold out concert in Los Angeles on March 1st will be strictly vegetarian, according to a report.The former Smiths man is of course... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — If meat is murder, as Morrissey famously proclaimed during his tenure as the Smiths' frontman, then Staples Center will be homicide-free when the singer plays his sold-out headline gig on March 1. more info