Guardian Music — The myths, the bizarre backstage requests, the sci-fi hair . . . the rock obsessive just can't get enoughIn 1970, those great cult favourites The Velvet Underground released what was effectively their final album, Loaded. Long maligned as too polish... more info

Detroit Free Press — DOUGFEST: Class of '82, this one's for you! Loverboy, Foreigner and A Flock of Seagulls will deliver an evening of early '80s rock memories at the annual DougFest sponsored by WDRQ-FM (Doug, 93.1). Big hair and Members Only jackets are... more info

NME — A Flock Of Seagulls, The Magic Numbers, MHPO also play more info

MVSW — Explosions in the Sky, Eluvium, No Age @ Hollywood Palladium The Zombies, The Yardbirds, The Spencer Davis Group @ Wiltern Rodriguez, Bright Black Morning Light, Glasser @ El Rey Telekinesis, The Boat People, One Trick Pony @ Echoplex Flock of S... more info

MVSW — Electric Daisy Carnival 2009 @ LA Coliseum Aretha Franklin @ Hollywood Bowl Vans Warped Tour @ Pomona Fairplex Until June, Ryan Calhoun, Clare Means, Julie Neumark, Erica Driscoll @ Hotel Cafe Three Bad Jacks @ Troubadour Chuck Ragan, Audra Mae @... more info

Guardian Music — It's not without its pitfalls, but Neil Young's painstakingly assembled retrospective is an awe-inspiring labour of love, says Alexis PetridisArchives arrives - a staggering 23 years after Neil Young first started talking about it - heralded as "the ... more info

Dlisted — Who says you can't be a 3-year-old with hair like Billy Idol (and just a sprinkle of Flock of Seagulls)? Kingston Rossdale has proven them wrong! Yeah, yeah, I know some of you are whining about how babehs shouldn't get covered in peroxide,... more info

JamBase — By: Cat Johnson In the mid-90s, the epicenter of the alternative rock scene was the Pacific Northwest. But as bands were pouring into Seattle to try their hand and their luck at the grunge game, across the country in Chicago, Red Red Meat was twi... more info

Guardian Music — (Warner Brothers)Midway through Déjà Vu, the documentary about Crosby Stills Nash & Young's noble attempt to interest America's conservative heartland in Neil Young's Bush-bashing Living With War album, Young appears on satirist Stephen Colbert's T... more info

MTV.com News — Contestants will perform songs from their birth years.By Gil Kaufman Allison Iraheta Photo: Frank Micelotta/ Getty Images "American Idol" judges are like a broken record when it comes to song selection. If they've said it once, they've sai... more info