Guardian Music — It's the last ever School of Rock blog (sniff! sob! etc) and so time to climb the wooden hill to Bedfordshire in search of music's most soothing lullabiesIt takes all sorts, but I used to find that the sound of Peel favourites Truman's Water turned u... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: The Hit List, MoviesToronto is overrun by movie stars like George Clooney, Drew Barrymore and Megan Fox for the Toronto International Film Festival (one of the world's big three, alongside Cannes and Sundance) not to mention scores of in... more info

Live Daily — Son Volt's Jay Farrar [ tickets ] and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard [ tickets ] are paying homage to Jack Kerouac with an upcoming album, a series of concerts and a feature-length documentary--all scheduled to coincide with the 40th anniversary o... more info

Stereogum — Some of you found it strange for Apple to have titled yesterday's anticlimactic product conference "Rock And Roll" while inviting the Princess Of Not-Rock Norah Jones to be its special musical guest. Fair enough. But also remember Apple's pushing ... more info

My Old Kentucky — We here at Laundromatinee/My Old Kentucky Blog will always have a soft spot for a fellow Kentucky expatriate, especially one as talented as Mark Charles Heidinger. Heidinger is a modern day troubadour and story-teller with a classic style. When h... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — PopMatters reviews Barney Hoskins' Tom Waits biography, Low Side of the Road. The Telegraph reviews Douglas Coupland's new novel, Generation A. It is an act of desperation, not creation, for a novelist to allow his characters to muse about characteri... more info

Totally Fuzzy — infinite fool said...At Infinite Foolishness:Tom Waits - 12/14/76, Media Sound Studios, NYC, NYhttp://infinitefool.blogspot.comaorto said...Paul Oakenfold - (some) Urban SoundtracksCream Anthems '97 - Paul Oakenfold and Nick WarrenTextures - Mixed by... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Jennings/WireImage Norah Jones has recruited Ryan Adams, Okkervil River’s Will Sheff and some of the vital members of Tom Waits’ Mule Variations band for her upcoming fourth studio album, due out in November. The LP will be Jones’ first... more info

Live Daily — Norah Jones [ tickets ] is eying a November release for her fourth studio album, an as-yet-untitled set that finds the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter venturing into unfamiliar waters. "I knew I wanted to try some different things on this album,"... more info

Stereogum — Norah has carved out a special space for herself in the Living Room/Rockwood Music Hall side of the LES music hang; in a circuit full of singers and sidemen with jazz in their roots, she's the chosen one who at a whim can crossover to pretty much ... more info