ET Online — Barbra Streisand is in store for a big-time tribute during Grammy week next year. Streisand is Musicares' 2011 Person of the Year. She'll be honored at a star-studded dinner in L.A. next February 11. Each year, MusiCares honors a recording ar... more info

MTV.com News — 'I thought it would be perfect timing for a California anthem,' she says of her response to 'Empire State of Mind.'By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Sway Calloway Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg in "California Gurls" Photo: Capitol "California G... more info

Popdose — The idea of a collaboration between two of America’s greatest composers is one that is intriguing, but also fraught with peril. The biggest problem is that the music of George Gershwin is completely familiar to even the most casual music fan in thi... more info

Guardian Music — Singer is reluctant to reunite with former band-mates for 50th anniversary, saying 'it's not my style to work with those guys'If the Beach Boys are going to reunite, then they need to get their story straight. As the group approaches their 50th anniv... more info

ContactMusic — Brian Wilson has "Brianised" the works of Gershwin for his new album. The Beach Boys songwriter is releasing an album interpreting the works of the 1920s jazz... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — A summer mash-up between the surf-sound maestro and the Jazz Age composer.A summer mash-up between the surf-sound maestro and the Jazz Age composer. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — On “Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin,” the summer mash-up between the surf-sound maestro and the Jazz Age composer, the most obvious retooling is on “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” Far from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s wistf... more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rondor Music, which owns the copyright to the Beach Boys' "California Girls," has sent a letter to Capitol Records demanding that it grant writing credits and royalties for the Katy Perry summer hit "California Gurl... more info

USA Today Music — This project held such great promise that it's a letdown when the concept is only intermittently successful. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Lissie's debut album, Catching a Tiger, finally sees its US release tomorrow, and firmly establishes her as one of this generation's prominent young singer-songwriters. Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin is the week's most intriguing release as the for... more info