Stereogum — Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back. It reportedly features reinterpretations of the folks mentioned above along with Elbow, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Dav... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - Kinks frontman RAY DAVIES has announced the release of a new album, the imaginative "Kinks Choral Collection" (November 10 release via Decca; re-released in the UK with extra bonus track November 23) and that he will briefly... more info

Live Daily — Former Kinks frontman Ray Davies [ tickets ] will spend a couple weeks touring the US this fall in support of his forthcoming album, "The Kinks [ tickets ] Choral Collection." The eight-date trek, which kicks off Nov. 12 in San Francisco, mixes sh... more info

Chorus.fm — Paste is streaming two new songs from *Ray Davies* (http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/10/ray-davies-opens-up-about-choral-collection-and-ki.html)' The Kinks Choral Collection and talks to the artist here... more info

Altsounds — After massively successful career spanning more than 40 years, Ray Davies, the legendary lead singer of The Kinks, is back with creative and unusual interpretations of songs from his extensive catalog. Often referred to as"almostindisputably rock's m... more info

All About Jazz — The new CD Pretty by Whitman Rinaldo has great songs and playful lyrics, in the vein the Kinks, U2, Beatles and UB40. The Northern Virginia/ Washington DC guitarist's CD has been released under the CreateSpace record label. The title track, "Prett... more info

The Vinyl Villain — In my late teens I was never really one for looking back at bands or singers of days of yore. As far as I was concerned, the music of today (whether that be 1979, 80, 81 or whenever) was all that ever mattered. There's no way you would ever catch me... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.Dave Davies more info

Guardian Music — The Cribs guitarist lists the songs that link his old band with his new one. It's a mixtape. Or a Marrxtape, if you will ...A lot of friendships are formed on the music you like. Before we even had the idea of me playing with the Cribs, we'd kick aro... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — (Please welcome new AD contributor Brendan McGrath.  Brendan helms one of my absolute favorite music blogs, the rising storm, and will be pulling from his collection, waxing on obscure and classic LPs. I couldn’t be more excited to have him on b... more info