MTV.com News — MTV News readers (and a couple of experts) tell us which albums they can't wait for!By Gil Kaufman Blink-182 Photo: Brian Appio Absence clearly does make the heart grow fonder. At least that's what it sounded like from the responses we got... more info

Reuters — NEW YORK (Billboard) - Peter Gabriel eschews traditional rock'n'roll instrumentation on his upcoming album, "Scratch My Back," which sports orchestral covers of material originally recorded by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Radiohead and Arcade... more info

Guardian Music — Ally Carnwath talks horses and heterosexual farmers with the Arcade Fire string arranger turned solo starClassically trained Owen Pallett has arranged strings for some of the noughties' most acclaimed albums including Arcade Fire's Funeral. He has al... more info

Musicaddictz - Addicted To Music — 100 Best Albums of The Decade01. Kid A - Radiohead02. Is This It - The Strokes03. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco04. The Blueprint - Jay-Z05. Elephant - White Stripes06. Funeral - Arcade Fire07. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem08. Modern Times - Bob Dyl... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — 30. M.I.A. - "Galang"; This is the song that turned M.I.A. into an international star. The song is catchy in its repetition and shows off a variety of styles and sounds all mixed into one crazy bag. It's what started the craze and set the rise of M.I... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Kane/WireImage.com In 2002, Eminem fought a rubber hand puppet at the VMAs. In 2006, Axl Rose brawled with Tommy Hilfiger a New York nightclub. In 2007, Arcade Fire (may have) stolen a guy’s basketball from a California gym. The decade is fi... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — It’d be easy to peg Funeral a death processional. People have done it before. Nearly every time anyone ever talked about the record, in fact. I never read the liner notes to the album, but apparently they mention the death of three family members o... more info

Rolling Stone — The Arcade Fire arrived with Funeral, Gwen Stefani went solo, Green Day shocked with their American Idiot rock opera, Kanye West conquered hip-hop and the Killers whipped us up in their Hot Fuss. As we look back at the decade’s top songs and albums... more info

Quick Before It Melts — Malcolm Gladwell says that a tipping point is “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.”  He published his book in 2000, about 4 years ahead of what I liken was the tipping point in music for this decade.  Upon its rel... more info

Stereogum — Festivals curated, Arcade Fire beefed, great record released, pants optional: that's how you have a year. And before the page turns on 2009, the Flaming Lips are adding to that list of distinctions with one more bit via Tuesday's iTunes release of... more info