The endless lists of "top albums/movies/dog breeds of the year" continue, with Rolling Stone weighing in on 2009's best albums. U2, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Bob Dylan? Wait, what year is it again?
Put your feet up and get your speakers out, Tim Dunlop does a round up of the top ten albums of the year. From The Drones to Martha Wainwright, it's a lullaby of fun.
If you needed proof that rock critics are now entirely redundant, look no further than the AP's Best Rock Albums of 2009 list, which is curiously absent of music that actually, y'know, rocks.
The Australian film Balibo was supposed to be shown at the Jakarta International Film Festival on Tuesday, but was blocked last minute by the Indonesian censorship board.
Popular music bible NME picks its top 100 tracks for the noughties. Nothing too controversial, but a nice trip through the decade that was in chart-friendly rock.
'90s rapper Coolio is releasing a cookbook, Cookin' with Coolio, featuring such recipes as "Chicken Lettuce Blunts" and "Drunk-Ass Chicken" in a style of cooking he calls "Ghetto Fusion". Check out the book's Top 10 quotes: "Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples."
Beenie, the Jamaican DJ just dropped from the Big Day Out, may be a phenomenal talent. But he has, at various times, been openly, flagrantly -- almost murderously -- homophobic.
As the decade winds up, every man and his dog is weighing in one the "Top x" of the past 10 years. Paste gives its take on the best music videos of the noughties -- with an Aussie contender making it into the top 5.
Following the Britney's lip-syncing uproar, journo Rebekah Devlin went to the Perth concert, wrote about fans walking out and then got bagged by Britney's promoter in The Oz. She gives her side of the Britney media circus.
A Britney Spears concert is presumably a mass of gyrating, fireworks and lip-syncing. But the Victorian government wants concert goers to be made aware when music isn't technically 'live'. Do we really need to be protected?
