Justice Bennett, the judge who made the Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills' divorce ruling yesterday (March 17), has said that throughout the case Mills was "inconsistent and inaccurate", while McCartney was "honest". - Source

Last night marked the organization's 19th celebratory year.RW is 2008's 'Outstanding Music Artist'.View each & every winner here. - Source

At different times and for different reasons, everybody in Austin seemed to be talking about Lou Reed and Moby this year: It was Lou's year to be honored with keynote speaker status, and the FADER Fort hosted its own version of a tribute, calling Mark Kozelek, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, and others to cover Lou's tunes to free-liquor fed, dinner-skipping crowd. As for Moby, well like we said, he's newly resurgent, our DJ friends' consensus pick for Most Improved Player.

Anyway about that Lou Reed tribute: We brought you the pics a few days ago, but now the FADER folks have upped Lou's only performance: fittingly, a duet with fellow South By buzz boy Moby on one of those Reed tunes every single person in the audience was sure to know. - Source

We brought you to Mark Kozelek's "Moorestown" last month. Now, as Spring approaches, it's time to dig more deeply into April over at Sun Kil Moon's MySpace. After initial listens, we're especially digging the Oldham guest spots, "Blue Orchids," and, again, "Moorestown" (Sorry, Cherry Hill). Again, April is out 4/1 on Kozelek's Caldo Verde.

While you're over at Caldo Verde, check out the new "comprehensive edition" of Kozelek's Nights of Passed Over, which is also out 4/1. The label's deets:

Originally released in Portugal (2002), this updated, hardback, all-English edition includes Kozelek's lyrics from the Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek albums and special edition compilations, as well as several concert set lists and handwritten lyrics, plus a new preface by Kozelek himself.

It's available in an edition of 2,500, which comes with a 12-song bonus CD, Nights LP, with live and rare versions of MK tunes from '96-'07. - Source

J Spaceman Pierce's lazer guided melodies are pretty Flaming Lips-y on "Soul On Fire," a new tune from Spiritualized's forthcoming Songs In A&E, the first album since 2003's Amazing Grace. ("Soul On Fire" also keeps making us think of Sebadoh's "Soul And Fire," for what it's worth.) The track premiered yesterday on BBC 1's Zane Lowe show, which explains the effusive dialog toward the song's final movement (Zane kinda sounds like he has a movement, too, actually). Do you like your music to be far-reaching and epic? Yeah, us too. Step into the breeze and listen at Deaf Indie Elephants. (Thanks, YiYo.) - Source

Canada's Stars will be making their US network debut tonight when they play their single "Take Me To The Riot" live on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. We've been digging their latest, and fourth, studio release for a while now, so we are looking forward to setting up our Tivo to record the performance - Source

A four-hour remix of Radiohead's song 'Videotape' is to be released, fittingly, on VHS video with accompanying visuals. - Source

Watch the 2-minute Q&A (from a hotel room) below. Visit Justice on MySpace.MP3: Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (JR Mix) - Source

We are constantly reminded of how much dead musicians love advertising footwear. Just recently Ian Curtis and Sid Vicious got in the game, and before that Kurt was unsuccessfully appropriated by Doc Martens. Well if you've been waiting since then 'til now to finally have some Cobain-y shoes, get ready to go running grunge fans: The Daily Swarm has images of the new Courtney Love-approved Cobain Converse. They're coming soon -- in more than one diaristic style! -- to a mall near you. The sneaks are part of Converse's 100th Anniversary and their "Welcome To The Converse Century" campaign. Smells like Odor Eaters to us, but then again, as morbid as it is, he was wearing One Stars when he died, so at least we know he liked the product. (That's called a silver lining.) Remember kids, "Punk rock means freedom" ... and posthumous endorsement deals from your creepy wife. - Source

Spiritualized's frontman Jason Pierce has revealed that he's turned down an offer to reform Spacemen 3. - Source