Guardian Music — It's the sound that unites Orson Welles and PJ HarveyWhat is it? Well. A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or resonator of the instrument (unlike, say, a guitar, where... more info

Topix — There are any number of interesting things to talk about in pianist Ran Blake's music, but there's one passage in particular that caught my ear while I was listening to his new CD, Grey December: Live in Rome , released last week on Tompkins Square R... more info

Altsounds — To celebrate her new album, **The Party Ain't Over*,* out **January 25th** via **Third Man/Nonesuch Records**, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer **Wanda Jackson** will play two special New York City and Los Angeles shows around its release. Wanda will be a... more info

Starpulse — In the locker room at the police department, an officer is washing up when he notices blood on his face. He touches it, only to have a huge patch of skin peel off. As he steps backwards from the si... more info

The Telegraph — A pitiless and striking memoir reveals the depth of Mandelson's loyalty to his party more info

The Telegraph — Peter Mandelson describes his predicament as that of a spurned mistress, says Andrew Gimson, reviewing Mandelson's indiscreet memoir, The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour more info

Guardian Music — The reaction to The Third Man has been predictable and depressingIt's time to stop being po-faced and admit that the television commercials for the newspaper extracts of Peter Mandelson's memoir, The Third Man, were a hoot. Mandelson has described hi... more info

NME - The Video Blog — The Dead Weather have performed their new album 'Sea Of Cowards' all the way through for the first time at Third Man Studios. Now watch Alison Mosshart, Jack White, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence perform 'Blue Blood Blues' exclusively on NME.COM. more info

Guardian Music — American singer and actor at the forefront of the folk music revival who was blacklisted as a communist sympathiserSusan Reed, who has died aged 84, was a singer in New York in the early days of the American folk scene, achieving national success mo... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — It includes such classics as 'The Third Man' and 'The Fallen Idol' and lesser-known ones such as 'Brighton Rock' and 'It Always Rains on Sunday.' It includes s... more info