Totally Fuzzy — Dartman said...Over at Dartman's World of Wonder:Stubby Kaye-Cash On Your Line Flexi-DiscLou Monte-Where Do You Work Marie/Skinny LenaNeil Diamond-I Am I Said/Done Too SoonNeil Diamond-Cherry Cherry/I'll Come RunningMystery Incorporated-Where Are You... more info

Indie Music News — Toward the second week of autumn, songwriters gather from all points north, south, east and west. The Songwriter's Festival at Loretta Lynn's Ranch is several events in one. Live original music performances, classes, contest, open sing rings, plus Ra... more info

JamBase — Dock Ellis' LSD-Fueled No-Hitter Immortalized In Todd Snider's "America's Favorite Pastime" Just in time for opening day, Todd Snider shares one of the wildest stories in baseball history on "America's Favorite Pastime," a song from the upcoming a... more info

MTV.com News — Taylor Swift takes Album of the Year; Underwood is Entertainer of the Year.By Gil Kaufman Carrie Underwood at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday Photo: Jon Kopaloff/ FilmMagic In what could signal a generational shift in the cou... more info

411 Mania — Few musical rags to riches stories can compare to Loretta Lynn's. Take a trip down to Butcher Holler, Kentucky and meet country music's answer to Cinderella, in this week's Thrifty Tunes. more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Buckner/Getty Just over a year after Elvis Costello released 2008’s Momofuku, the rocker-TV host will return with a new album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, on June 2nd. Recorded in Nashville with Raising Sand producer T Bone Burnett, Secret ... more info

Idolator — Welcome to a special "trapped in a hotel room" edition of Idolator's American Idolatry, where I invite you all into my double-twin room at the Hilton Austin for some real-time kibitzing over tonight's American Idol. It's the Grand Ole Opry edition of... more info

Guardian Music — Neko Case talks to Leonie Cooper about the ups and downs of being a country singer raised on rockEight years ago, Neko Case played a "plaza party" at the home of country music, the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. It didn't go well: partway th... more info

JamBase — TODD SNIDER SOLVES YOUR ECONOMIC WOES WITH THE EXCITEMENT PLAN NEW ALBUM PRODUCED BY DON WAS, OUT JUNE 9 ON YEP ROC Todd Snider He's taken on Conservative Christians, hippies, Republicans, and frat boys. Now "country's conscience" (Spin, August ... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Not content with being in The White Stripes/ Raconteurs/ Electric Six (Remember that?), producing Loretta Lynn and working with Beck Jack White has branched out again. The Dead Weather features Dean Fertita from Queens of the Stone Age, Jack Lawrence... more info