Brooklyn Vegan — Rolling Stone has published their list of the Top 50 Albums of 2015. As always, it has older artists who don't seem to pop up on many other lists (Madonna, Darlene Love, Mark Knopfler, Boz Scaggs, Keith Richards, James... more info

Mercury News, California — Joe Jackson, Vince Gill, Neko Case, Hot Tuna, Boz Scaggs among the acts appearing at the festival. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Norah Jones, Heart’s Ann Wilson, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, She & Him’s M. Ward, the Killers’ Brandon Flowers, Boz Scaggs and Devendra Banhart are among a cross-generational musical cast lined up to sal... more info

Mercury News, California — Thursday's celebration of conductor Michael Tilson Thomas's 70th birthday was a musical six-gun salute with superstars, surprises. and a million big blue balloons. At one point, the San Francisco Symphony's gala-like concert tribute at Davies Symphon... more info