Rolling Stone — In this week’s New Music Report, Rolling Stone’s Christian Hoard takes a look at new albums from Hinder and the Knux as well as top stories on the Beatles video game and the AC/DC tour. Click above for the full take on the week’s biggest music ... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Press Assoc. - A rare 8mm film reel of an "unscheduled" Beatles gig has been sold at auction, to the fab four's record label Apple. more info

Culture Bully — Whenever I get a press release in the mail that describes a band as sounding like The Beatles or Radiohead I sigh to myself and consider not listening to the album. It seems like whenever rock musicians are asked to describe what they sound like, som... more info

Pitchfork — The twentieth anniversary edition of the annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction will take place December 5 at Chicago's Park West, with the aim of raising some coin for the city's homeless and underprivileged youngsters. Over the years, the... more info

Stereogum — The intro chord to the Beatles' classic has always had an impossible sound: there were allegedly no overdubs, but definitely more notes than John, Paul, and George could've played. Professor Brown of Dalhousie University cracked the chord recently, a... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Rock’n’Roll superstars Oasis returned to the north-east for the first time in three years at the weekend to blow away two capacity crowds at the Press and Journal Arena.However, the Gallagher brothers’ Aberdeen gigs were almost m... more info

Rolling Stone — • Despite Internet Rumors, Lil Wayne Not Dead Top stories from the last three days: • Fall Gaming 2008: From WWII to WWE • How Duran Duran Made “The Wolf” • AC/DC Use Excel to Remake Video • The Best of Summer 2008 • Jacksons: Michael... more info

Undercover, Australia — Katie Noonan is singing the songs of John Lennon and Paul McCartney on her new album Blackbird. more info

Guardian Music — Having just listened to Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' over and over again last week while writing about it for the Observer Review, I am more convinced than ever of its unassailable greatness. Nothing in popular music compares with it in terms of it... more info

San Francisco ChronicleGetting better all the time for Beatles fansFinancial Times - 10 hours agoBy Kenneth Li and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York With a splashy exclusive agreement to show up in their own music video game behind them, fans of ... more info