Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Oscars, Cardinals • Stone Temple Pilots Completing New LP • Executors of Jackson Estate Seek Payment • Brown Settles for Seven on Charts • Stones, U2, Madonna: Decade’s Top Tours • Colbert Raps With Keys on “Empire Stat... more info

Rolling Stone — The Rolling Stones were the most successful live band of the decade as the rockers’ 264 concerts over the past ten years grossed over $869 million, good enough for Number One atop Billboard’s Top Touring Acts of the 2000s list. Only three artists... more info

Guardian Music — The demand for a Clash/Public Enemy-style hero started dying out this decade. Yet MIA managed to fulfill this role without diminishing her status as a 21st-century pop starSurveying the best-of-the-decade lists, I was surprised to see MIA not featuri... more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Broken Bells, Pavement • Stooges, Genesis, ABBA Make the Rock Hall • Lil Wayne Sentencing Set for Feb. 9th • Chris Brown Deletes Twitter After Rant • 2009 Readers’ Poll: Pearl Jam, Lambert Win • U2, McCartney Earn Golden ... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Dotmusic - Music heavyweights compete for Golden Globe more info

NME — Ricky Gervais hosts the awards next January more info

Stereogum — Here's Bono, taking the steam out of all the "Pump It Up" jokes everyone was making on first hearing about U2's overstuffed bag of sexy boots. This comes from last Wednesday's Season 2 premiere of Costello's excellent Spectacle With... show. As pe... more info

Rolling Stone — U2, Paul McCartney and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O — along with musical-TV comedy Glee and country music film Crazy Heart — all earned Golden Globe nominations when Justin Timberlake joined The Office’s John Krasinski and Inglourious Basterd... more info

Live Daily — Dream pairing eyed for stadiums A dream tour of the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac has reached the proposal stage. The concept of a summer US tour featuring the two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members and consistent concert draws of the last decade is b... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — U2 frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge enjoyed themselves while taping a segment of Elvis Costello's CTV show Spectacle -- actually the Season 2 premiere which airs tonight -- at the Masonic Temple in Toronto back in mid-September. more info