Guardian Music — (Epic)The press release affixed to the second album from 2009 X Factor runner-up Olly Murs begins: "I'm never going to think, 'Right, I've made it now.' Even the greats like Paul McCartney never think they can't do better." You've got to love his co... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Musician Chris Holmes seems to attract a curious mix of people, including Barack Obama, Paul McCartney, Beck and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields. more info

Topix — Christie's auction house says a handwritten letter from Paul McCartney offering a Beatles audition to a mystery drummer has sold for nearly 35,000 pounds . more info

Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - A handwritten letter written by Paul McCartney on August 12, 1960 inviting an unnamed drummer to audition for a place in the Beatles has sold at Christie's for 34,850 pounds ($55,000). more info

Guardian Music — The music and clubbing scene in Vegas attracts the world's very biggest names to its dive bars, outrageous clubs and chillaxin' venues, say Chuckmonster and Spencer Patterson• As featured in our Las Vegas city guideThe Joint at the Hard Rock HotelW... more info

Guardian Music — He hails from Japan and makes the kind of doom-laden pop that could soundtrack an erupting volcano. In a good way …Little is known about Jesse Ruins. Well, other than he is from Japan and makes doom-laden, industrial-tinged pop that demands to be u... more info

Guardian Music — Liverpool university is launching a three year project on Rushworth's, and wants to hear from anyone who worked or shopped in its famous 'music house'Business history is too little celebrated, alas for the north, whose annals of industry and enterpri... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — “I buried Paul”….yada, yada. The lengths of which fans have gone in regard to Paul McCartney’s supposed 1966 death and replacement (Billy Shears, anyone?) have long bordered on the obsessive. Here we have the the most recent entry, The Winged... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Officially, Oasis mastermind Noel Gallagher named his current band after a Jefferson Airplane song. But it’s not hard to note the moniker contains echoes of Paul McCartney’s second band. And where Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye has taken the John L... more info

Guardian Music — The company that brought us Cliff and the Beatles, the Sex Pistols and Susan Boyle is disappearing. We should salute its contribution to our cultureIn the 1930s, after a merger with Columbia UK, EMI became the biggest record company in the world. By ... more info