Stereogum — While Friday saw the end of a era on late night TV -- Conan saying goodbye to The Tonight Show and NBC with Neil Young, ZZ Top, Ben Harper, and more cowbell -- the night also marked a first, with Beach House making their nationally televised debut... more info

Guardian Music — The 13th Floor Elevators frontman will return with his first album of original songs in more than a decade. And he's hired Austin indie-rockers Okkervil River as his backing band13th Floor Elevators' Roky Erickson will return with his first album of ... more info

Undercover, Australia — Happy birthday ZZ Top. The Texan band turned the big Four – Oh on New Years Eve. more info

Starpulse — Happy Birthday to: ZZ Top singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons (1949)[...] Read more! more info

Here Comes The Flood — Distortion working? Check. Echo on the vocals? Check. Errhm feedback? Check. Draygo's Guilt is ready to enter your eardrums. The band is fronted by Jon 'Clewsie' Clews who leads the trio through ZZ Top bass lines with the wall-to-wall sound of earl... more info

Altsounds — High Voltage is the must-see rock event of 2010 – a two-day festival featuring the very best in classic rock, progressive rock and metal, with over 40 acts handpicked by the UK’s fastest-growing music magazine, Classic Rock. Topp... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — EDMONTON - Last time I saw ZZ Top, not only was beer being served, but beer was being spilled, flung around and hurled into the air. more info

411 Mania — …the X-Factor (including Girls Aloud, Kelly Clarkson, Will Young and more), Yusuf Islam and finally ZZ Top and Frank Zappa with an additional rant on Mosh Pit Etiquette more info

Live Daily — Blues-infused jam rockers North Mississippi Allstars [ tickets ] have unveiled a winter itinerary of US concerts that runs through February. The group's journey begins with a Dec. 18 performance in Jackson, MS, and continues throughout the east in... more info

Live Daily — While reportedly continuing to sculpt a new comeback album in the studio with producer Rick Rubin, ZZ Top [ tickets ] has mapped a late-year tour heavy on dates in the Canadian Northwest. The trek kicks off Nov. 10 in Milwaukee, WI, and includes n... more info