The Playlist — Alright, here's a trailer we're much more excited about: Sam Taylor-Wood's young John Lennon biopic "Nowhere Boy." Or where excited anyhow...Interestingly enough, there's no Beatles or Lennon music in this one and the first song we hear is Jay Hawki... more info

Rolling Stone — The trailer for Nowhere Boy, a film based on the teenage years of the Beatles‘ John Lennon, debuted this week, just days before its premiere tomorrow at the London Film Festival. The movie, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, was filmed in Lennon’s boyh... more info

AngryApe — She phoned the singer after she covered John Lennon more info

The Quietus — Listen to top soundtrack here more info

Stereogum — One last gargantuan batch of photos from an exhausting, exhaustive week of NYC showgoing. On Friday Jessica Amaya joined us at Doveman's record release party at the Elevated Hole, a Chelsea loft owned by the Yale English Dept. chair Michael Warner... more info

Mjsbigblog — The Track list for Glee Music, Volume 2 has leaked, via Tommy2net. Volume 2 is not to be confused with Volume 1, available everywhere on November 3rd (Pre-Order at Amazon). The second volume covers the final 3 episodes of the first half of season ... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Lots of holiday shows going on sale, including one more Halloween show at Brooklyn Bowl that has Deer Tick dressing up as and playing the songs of The Sex Pistols. Weird. Also Matisyahu’s Festival of Light Hannukah shows on sale, as well as a few N... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — John Lennon's widow on sexism, The Beatles' legacy, and how her banker father inspired her. John created The Beatles, but there would be no Beatles without Paul. John created The Beatles – he put it together. He named it. He was the leader. He ... more info

Time Out, London — William 'Smokey' Robinson -leader of The Miracles, John Lennon's favourite songwriter, one of Motown's major players and writer of such classics as 'My Guy', 'The Way You Do The Things You Do' and 'My Girl', plays with The... more info

Live Daily — Midway through Monster of Folk’s sprawling two-hour-and-45-minute set Sunday (10/18) at the Greek Theatre, singer/guitarist Jim James thanked the crowd for being so respectful during the band’s performance. “Folk... more info