NME — Thom Yorke has asked US fans to sign the Stop Climate Change petition more info

Chicago Tribune — The following is an excerpt from Greg Kot's new book, "Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music" (Scribner, $25). "Ripped" tells the story of a new grass-roots music industry, created by the laptop generation, with the fans and bands in ... more info

Pasta Primavera — AmpLive of the group Zion I has just released a new single “Gary Is A Robot” which features Trackademics and Micro Jaxson.  Like many I first caught on to AmpLive with his Rainydayz Radiohead remixes which were quite amazing.  This new s... more info

Considering that The 9513 Group jumped up to 65 members this week, I was interested to see how that would affect the charts. Would we start to turn into every other group on Last.fm and have Radiohead among the top artists? Thankfully, no. Instead, t... more info

Guardian Music — It must be distressing for an artist if another is profiting from a tune you believe you created. But ultimately, shouldn't a song be allowed to exist on its own merit?Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, is now the second person to... more info

Rolling Stone — Fans voted three tracks off David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust onto this week’s Rock List: Star Songs, but in the end it was Prince’s Purple Rain rave-up “Baby, I’m a Star” that won the Star Wars, edging “Ziggy Stardust,” Deep Purple and Ra... more info

Live Daily — Richard Hughes, drummer for the piano-driven English pop band Keane, can't say enough about how much fun the recording process was for the act's latest album, "Perfect Symmetry." "I hope you can hear that it was fun on the record," Hughes said durin... more info

Allmusic Blog — With nine years covered in our AllMusic Loves series, hitting the current decade was only a matter of time. We start here with the first year, naturally, and we'll knock out the rest and reach the end before the next decade begins. Prince rang in the... more info

Pasta Primavera — Passion Pit have opted to go the successful Radiohead route and conduct a fully transparent remix contest for the track “Little Secrets” off of the highly anticipated, recently leaked and praised, Manners.  You can participate in the contest h... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Two years ago Montreal native Patrick Watson was nominated for the Polaris Prize, one of Canada's top music honors, along with some heavy hitters (Arcade Fire, Feist, Chad VanGaalen, Junior Boys) and picked up the award despite the odds. That was fo... more info