MTV.com News — MTV News' James Montgomery picks his top 25 songs of the year.By James Montgomery Jay-Z Photo: Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage/Joe Klamar/Jim Dyson/G In 2009, we killed Auto-Tune, we partied in the U.S.A., and we howled "Awooo!" at the moon (e... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Gov't Mule 2009/11/15 Sala Apolo Barcelona, Spain CD1 Intro Brand New Angel Steppin' Lightly Any Open Window Larger Than Life Soulshine Child Of The Earth Fool's Moon Temporary Saint Thorazine Shuffle CD2 Broke Down On The Brazos I... more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — For a few years in the mid-'00s, it was good to be Adam Lazzara. The Taking Back Sunday frontman was the king of the burgeoning third-wave emo scene while being embroiled in a feud with scene mates Brand New, former bandmates Shaun Cooper and John No... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Gershoff/WireImage(Paramore), Loccisano /Getty(Weezer)Paramore and Weezer have been recruited to headline The Bamboozle music festival, taking place May 1st and 2nd at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Paramore pla... more info

Chorus.fm — Some photos and the set list from *Brand New* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/brandnew)'s Nassau show can be found here (http://thenjunderground.com/blog/2009/11/29/brand-new-nassau-coliseum-112809.html). more info

Rock Sellout — Since Nick (the bastard) beat me to the punch to review the new Mercury Program album by literally an hour and a half, I'll do this instead. I was literally on my way to this prestigious website to give a glowing, if somewhat reserved, review of Chez... more info

The Music Fix — News: MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA have traversed much of this Planet Earth in the year 2009. They recently finished up a tour of the UK with Biffy Clyro and have just posted a video of their antics in Australia before heading out on tour with Brand New in t... more info

The Music Fix — Competition: The Music Fix has copies of the new Chris Brown album to give away to five lucky readers! To be in with a chance of winning a copy just answer the fiendish question below (*Cough* the answer is in the press release! *cough*) CHRIS BROW... more info

CMT — I remember the first time I ate at Cracker Barrel. It was Thanksgiving 1994, about three months after moving to Nashville to attend Belmont University. One of my friends invited me to join her and I ordered your typical Thanksgiving dinner -- and I r... more info

Rolling Stone — During a recent visit to Rolling Stone, Paramore’s Hayley Williams was reluctant to talk about the new video for the band’s Brand New Eyes single “Brick By Boring Brick” — to be fair, Williams was reluctant to talk in general, as she was st... more info