Ted Leo | The Brutalist Bricks (The Boston Phoenix)

Legacy (2010) Leave it to Ted Leo to find his way from "There was a resolution pending on the United Nations floor" to "Tell the bartender I think I'm falling in love."

Hiatt hits all the right notes (Albany Times Union)

Tuesday morning, John Hiatt's new album, "The Open Road," was released nationally by New West Records.

Review: REO Speedwagon, Styx deliver tight sets at PCCC (The State Journal-Register)

Thirty years and two months after playing the Prairie Capital Convention Center when it was brand new, REO Speedwagon headlined a four-hour concert with Styx and .38 Special Thursday night in front of 5,300.

Music Review: Waterloo - First Battle (Blogcritics.org)

Extremely rare Belgian progressive album reissued on CD.

Sound Off (The Post and Courier)

If you want to go really old school when it comes to seeing a live performance, then take a trip to New Orleans and catch a performance at Preservation Hall. Opened in 1961 and dedicated to preserving the unique sound of New Orleans jazz, the venue has no air conditioning and no running water, but the history embedded in the walls of the venue is palpable.

Laughlin in brief - a collection of area events. (The Laughlin Times)

LAUGHLIN - The staff of Third District Congresswoman Dina Titus, D-Nev., will be in Laughlin from 10 a.m.-noon and 1- 5 p.m. PST on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at the Spirit Mountain Activity Center in the Mountain View Park on the Needles Highway at Arie Avenue in upper Laughlin.

Better Than Best: People and Places (Philadelphia Weekly)

Best Place to Get Dissed By Skeletor If you’ve ever sat through a night of karaoke where one extremely drunken, off-key person keeps getting on the mic to sing yet another song by Creed, you’ve probably fantasized about having a giant hook to drag that loser offstage, or at least some way to make it clear that the audience is not receptive to their performance. Well, the Trocadero has ...

Cotton Candy | Top Notch & First Rate (The Boston Phoenix)

Teenbeat (2010) Anyone who's seen Cotton Candy in person can attest that they're irresistibly camp and cute.

Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (Rolling Stone)

Artist: Johnny Cash Review: From 1993 until 2003, Rick Rubin and Johnny Cash produced a string of ingeniously simple music that set Cash's fathoms-deep baritone against a stark backdrop, turning him loose on grim, death-haunted Appalachian ballads, standards and rock songs of recent vintage. Seven years after Cash's death, those sessions are still producing great albums. The latest of the Rubin ...

Live review: Tinariwen at UCLA's Royce Hall (Los Angeles Times)

An irresistible musical force descended on Westwood on Saturday night, and it was met with a seemingly immovable object. An irresistible musical force descended on Westwood on Saturday night, and it was met with a seemingly immovable object.