Starpulse — Happy Birthday to: Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen (1948) English model Abigail Clancy (1986) Actor Alex Meraz (1985) Actor Josh Ryan Evans (1982; d. 2002) Actress Janet Jones (1961) Actor Eva... more info

Guardian Music — Next week is the 37th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen's legendary London debut at Hammersmith Odeon. Here's Simon Frith's report for Creem, courtesy of Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalismSo you're scared and you... more info

Time — Welcome to our weekly rundown of what’s happening on the Billboard charts, recapping the big movers in sales and streams of singles and albums. On we go: Country Comes to Town. It’s a big week for country artists on the Billboard 200 Albums chart... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: The Darcys - I Got the News (Rey Pila Remix) (MP3) Toronto group The Darcys are heading out on the road for a short East Coast tour, performing their interpretation of Steely Dan's Aja which they... more info

Guardian Music — (Warner Bros)When Steely Dan released Two Against Nature in 2000, it was as if their creative duo, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, had found nothing interesting musically to draw on in the two decades since their last release. But they've been on mor... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonThere is a long line of jazz and fusion guitarists who are better known than New York's Wayne Krantz, but for 20 years he has been one of the few who can consistently make you leap off your seat and whoop. Krantz is not only a v... more info

Mercury News, California — Friday night concerts at Blackhawk Plaza provide free, danceable fun more info

Guardian Music — Nile Rodgers and Chic play Camp Bestival in Dorset this weekend, so we're visiting the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – for this NME interview from January 1979. In it, the band's late ba... more info

Guardian Music — Readers make their case for their favourite fancy fretworkEarlier this week we asked readers to nominate their favourite guitar solos.The response has been astonishing. Here's a brief selection of the emails we received – and, given we didn't want ... more info

The Newsroom — Bob Egan has created PopSpotsNYC.com, a blog where he documents the locations of iconic album covers. From Bob Dylan to Steely Dan to the West Side Story soundtrack, Bob superimposes the original photograph over an image of what that location looks l... more info