Pop Bytes — † FROM DJ PAUL V. It's so cool that great mashups come from literally every corner of this big blue marble we live on. This week, Brazil is in the house with DJ Faroff , who always surprises us with his diverse source material and ease o... more info

Pop Candy — - Paul Thomas Anderson has written a religious-themed drama that takes place in the '50s. Philip Seymour Hoffman will star. more info

The Playlist — We reported back in the summer that prolific rock doc helmer Julien Temple, behind classics like "The Great Rock & Roll Swindle," "The Filth & The Fury" and most recently "Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten," was planning a documentary on the grea... more info

Guardian Music — Original Pirate Material gave British rap an authentic new voice and provided the link between the Kinks and Dizzee RascalWho else made our albums of the decade list?"Ooh, the pizza's here ... will someone let him in please? We didn't order chicken .... more info

Live Daily — While his peers The Beatles are turning a new generation of music fans on to their music via a videogame and The Who are prepping for a Super Bowl halftime performance, Ray Davies [ tickets ] has opted for a more organic and subtle way to celebrate t... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Kinks frontman reinterprets his life's work, with the help of the Vox Society Choir, in an engaging two-hour show. Ray Davies has learned to embrace his long season of reinvention. In recent years, the Kinks frontman has lamented the... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Kinks frontman reinterprets his life's work, with the help of the Vox Society Choir, in an engaging two-hour show. Ray Davies has learned to embrace his lo... more info

CNN Showbiz — "Pirate Radio," is set during the swinging '60s of pop music when giants like the Kinks and the Who roamed the earth. more info

Streetkiss Music — La scène indépendante française est comme une malle remplie de trésors... C'est précisément dans cette malle que j'ai découvert Vanessa Chassaigne et ses chansons d'amour et de plage... L'amour est son fer de lance, sa rai... more info

The idea of Ray Davies re-recording more than a dozen classic Kinks songs with choral accompaniment suggests two contrasting ideas simultaneously. On the one hand, he wrote great tunes. To have new renditions of some of rocks most enduring compositio... more info