Allmusic Blog — Kelly Clarkson’s All I Ever Wanted stands atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, although with sales under 100,000; meanwhile the early release of the Decemberists’ The Hazards of Love on vinyl and iTunes may have been enough to p... more info

Guardian Music — Look at the band below: can you really imagine them doing swaggering cock-rock? Alexis Petridis triesThe relationship between American alt-rock and the British folk revival of the 60s is a surprising one. You might think an impassable cultural and ae... more info

MTV.com News — Colin Meloy's newly expanded crew set the bar high on the first day of South by Southwest.By James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Christopher "CJ" Smith and Matt Harper The Decemberists perform at Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas on We... more info

VH1 News — The Decemberists played an extraordinary opening-day set at South By Southwest, while Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John practically gave up. more info

Idolator — Fresh off his Colbert Report appearance, Carl Wilson talks with Peli Grietzer about elite fandom of "trash" like Gossip Girl and Britney Spears. Grietzer charges that such things are not for "genuine trash" but are, rather, designed specifically to... more info

Idolator — Yes. Yes, you read that correctly — you haven't accidentally landed at one of the other music blogs. (*ahem*) I've become a fan of the small cadre of inbred indie (and formerly indie) artists on Twitter: The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Roderick... more info

MTV.com News — We give you a peek at what's due to go down at this year's SXSW in Austin, Texas.By James Montgomery Photo: sxsw.com South by Southwest is sort of like running a marathon, except you're drunk most of the time, and there's nothing but BBQ an... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - A SXSW concert not to miss, even if you're not at the event... NPR Music will open this year's South by Southwest Music and Media Conference(SXSW) in Austin, TX, with the live webcast of a Decemberists concert... more info

Detroit Free Press — Surely you didn't think that was it for Kelly Clarkson. Two years after the "American Idol" sweetheart endured her first significant career stumble, the 26-year-old starlet has stormed back with "All I Ever Wanted" (***, RCA Records), a self-a... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — Episode 44 of The Mix Tape Podcast is now available for download!As the first remixes of the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album It's Blitz! emerge, we hit up a DiscoWeirdos (one half of FC/Kahuna) re-edit of Zero. Then comes new material from Canadian h... more info