This week's reviews: Staind's grand 'Illusion'; Shwayze, hazy daze; new Macdonald (USA Today)

18 August 2008, 3:00 pm

Swallow these capsules and you'll be able to fake your way through a conversation on the latest albums. Read the entire reviews and you can sound like an expert. Capsules first: On Staind's "aptly titled sixth studio album," the...... read more

Mirror.co.uk's Monday gossip round-up - today's top showbiz (Daily Mirror)

18 August 2008, 4:11 am

Another weekend, another day spent wearing wellies watching bands in fields, and this Saturday and Sunday saw various famous types cavorting backstage at V - the safe, dependable rather boring Ford Fiesta of festivals. ... read more

Hair at the fair: Ex-'Idol' star serenades Clarke County (The Northern Virginia Daily)

18 August 2008, 12:34 am

BERRYVILLE — For different reasons and at different times, Bucky Covington brought the Long sisters to tears. When the Rockingham, N.C., native was voted off — or kicked off, he calls it — "American Idol" in 2006, Cheyenne Long, 11, cried.... read more

Vinyl lives! (The Buffalo News)

17 August 2008, 3:56 am

Patience is the key. If you wait long enough, everything that has gone around will come around again. Beatles haircuts, bell-bottoms, Pumas, stoner slang –just when you think these bits of cultural detritus are buried forever, back they come. Music –its stylistic leanings, its modes of distribut... read more

Gilmour goes for live glory in "Gdansk" (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

15 August 2008, 3:26 pm

David Gilmour's upcoming concert album, "Live in Gdansk," turned out a little different than the Pink Floyd guitarist planned.... read more