Guardian Music — The musician, 61, on social media, being British, and his love of curlingI don’t have any horror stories about the Catholic church. The nuns who taught me until I was 11 were very kind. I know plenty of people who had traumatic experiences, an... more info

The Playlist — The red carpet is usually rolled out for HBO prestige shows, but they’ve had a difficult time with their troubled 1970s-set rock n’ roll series, “Vinyl,” from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and “Boardwalk Empire” creator Terence Winter. Ma... more info

Stereogum — Elvis Costello has performed a cover of the O’Jays’ 1972 single “Back Stabbers” live in the past, but he just released a formal studio version for the Vinyl soundtrack. The HBO show debuted a new compilation today, which features Charli XCX�... more info

Ryan's Smashing Life — Elvis Costello will always be one of our favorites. An artist's artist, as they say, his biggest impact may proven through his impact on his musical. Today is Elvis' birthday and we thought we would celebrate in style! This really cool Elvis Costell... more info

Stereogum — This is a big, big week for Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. On Monday, he posted his interview with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, a longtime obsession of Maron’s. 20 years ago, Michaels let Maron interview for SNL, and Maron has talked ab... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The 2016 Dublin International Literary Award longlist features 160 novels. Literary Hub features and excerpt from Elvis Costello's memoir 12 year-end "best books of 2015" lists were added to the Largehearted Boy master aggregation Tuesday (bringing t... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Joanna Newsom's Divers is one of my favorite albums of the year so far. Also out this week is Elvis Costello's companion album to his new memoir. This week's interesting music releases: 5 Seconds of Summer: Sounds Good Feels... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Ruth Reichl talked to the Chicago Tribune about her new book My Kitchen Year. The A.V. Club interviewed Elvis Costello about his new memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Pitchfork shared a history of sleep music. Tracy O'Neill shared the... more info

Stereogum — Elvis Costello just published his first memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, and he’s also released a big double-CD set as accompaniment. So that’s why Costello was on Conan last night, not as a musical guest but as a regular one, there to... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Jane Smiley defended historical fiction at the Guardian. The Guardian reviewed PJ Harvey's poetry collection The Hollow of the Hand. The Believer interviewed Joshua Cohen about his live-written serial novel PCKWCK. Elvis Costello talked books and rea... more info