Guardian Music — (Sony/Columbia)If 2012 has been a vintage year for elderly rock bands – ZZ Top, Rush and Kiss have returned with albums recalling their peaks – no one seems to have told Aerosmith the golden rule: make sure you remind your listeners of the 1970s.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Malia James and Jules in New Orleans (via @malia-james) "Dum Dum Boys" @ One Eyed Jacks, 10/30/2012 (via @julesdumdum) Dum Dum Girls are currently touring across the South and Southwest, including a stop at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin... more info

Guardian Music — (UMC)Like ZZ Top and Rush before them, Kiss seem to have finally rediscovered (after their stodgy 2010 comeback album, Sonic Boom) what made them so great in the first place. And that was their ability to combine sleazy bar-room riffs with fist-pumpi... more info

Guardian Music — KUT Austin radio's David Brown on the songs that soundtrack this cosmopolitan college town – from Cold Shot by local legend Stevie Ray Vaughn to Lost Coastlines by the darlings of the Red River music scene, Okkervil River• As featured in our Aust... more info

Guardian Music — Indie revivalists who namecheck Cantona and Sega but seem to be trying too hard to spoof too many thingsReading this on a mobile? Click here to listenHometown: London.The lineup: Martin Bowman (guitars), Andrew Wagstaff (vocals), Simon Oldham (drums)... more info

USA Today Music — Jack White, Skrillex, Porter Robinson, Santigold, Nas and ZZ Top head the EDM-heavy lineup at the Columbia, Md., fest. more info

Guardian Music — BB King, who has just turned 87, has returned home to Mississippi to play to family and friends. In the experience of a lifetime, Ed Vulliamy joins him and hears from the maestro about his rise from the cotton fields to international stardomThe fat r... more info

Guardian Music — ZZ Top's third album offered this none-more-spooky take on the tale of a boy who just wanted to drive fast I'll come clean. There's a particular reason for me to be nominating ZZ Top for this slot today. Tomorrow I'll be flying to the US to interview... more info

411 Mania — ZZ Top has returned to the music scene after a nine year break, and the slick 80's sound is gone but the boogie blues is still there. 411's Andy Rackauskas gets the keys to the car to see if women still go crazy about sharp dressed men with long bea... more info

ContactMusic — ZZ Top are to be honored as living legends by the editors of Classic Rock magazine. The bearded rockers, writers of songs such as Gimme All Your... more info