MTV.com News — Eminem's Relapse holds tight at #2, while 311 and Chickenfoot make strong debuts.By Gil Kaufman Dave Matthews Photo: MTV News The Dave Matthews Band lead the charge in a week of change at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. The venerable j... more info

Guardian Music — He's taken jazz where it has never gone before - playing with pipers, punks and divas. As Ornette Coleman arrives in Britain, Patti Smith, Moby and others salute a great. By John LewisBorn in Texas 79 years ago, saxophonist Ornette Coleman came to t... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Iggy Pop talks to the Los Angeles Times about his music career and new album, Preliminaires. New York Magazine's Vulture blog lists the 2009 songs of the summer. The Los Angeles Times examines the "literary antecedents" to the new animated... more info

411 Mania — Singles them out as "crappy music"... more info

NME — Singer names 'crappy music' makers - video more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I've got a handful of hobbies that I enjoy juggling around like some dorky carnival act, yet sometimes I'm granted the immense pleasure of said hobbies colliding in a fun fashion. Although music may stand out as a rather obvious hobby, I'm not asham... more info

JamBase — TWO MARVELOUS ALBUMS BY A SEMINAL GROUPTHAT'S STOOD THE TEST OF TIME DESPITE SOME TRULY REGRETTABLE FASHION CHOICES In the soil of our sadness Hear our hearts bell a serenade A faint choir tenderly shaping A lament…a hollow refuge As c... more info

Topix — Sometime in the past few years, between digesting French literature and watching birds alight on the placid South Florida waters, Iggy Pop , the Godfather of Punk, decided, finally, that rock as we know it is a lost cause. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Iggy Pop @ 2008 Baltimore Virgin Fest (more by Bao Nguyen) The NY Times is having "A Conversation with Iggy Pop" on June 24th. The godfather of punk takes on the language of romance and gets "dangerously near jazz" on... more info

Altsounds — MySpace Music is excited to announce multiple album and video debuts beginning on Saturday, May 23. The list includes Iggy Pop, Marilyn Manson, Grizzly Bear, Julian Marley and the Jonas Brothers. Please find details for each premiere below. *IGGY PO... more info