The Wall Street Journal names the best reissues from the revitalized Stax;
Something Else! looks back at XTC’s “Playground”;
Ickmusic whips up a bitchin’ old school mix;
The Lefsetz Letter publishes an essay from Bob Ezrin;
Culture Bully previews “Prom Queen,” the leadoff single from Lil Wayne’s upcoming rock album, The Rebirth;
Topless Robot compiles a list of its readers’ most traumatic videogame experiences;
China rings in the Year of the Ox, and Boston.com’s always-stellar Big Picture is there;
Mott the Hoople announces plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a reunion tour;
Brooklyn Vegan writes up Andrew Bird’s January 26th performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg;
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog points you at some recent faves from the New Bin;
The New York Times discusses a study linking coffee drinking to lower dementia risk;
The Doves stream a cut from their upcoming album, Kingdom of Rust;
Looking for a job? Fortune lists 10 companies that have never laid off a worker — ever;
The A.V. Club catches up with Mayim “Blossom” Bialik;
Largehearted Boy kicks off the seventh year of his 52 Books, 52 Weeks project;
The Telegraph relates the story of a town that, in an effort to curb crimes against punctuation, abolished apostrophes on road signs;
Our friends at Ickmusic are giving away the two-DVD set The Who at Kilburn 1977;
A Canadian professor is using math to determine whether Lennon or McCartney wrote “In My Life”;
…and Katie Couric meets Lil Wayne in one of the most surreal interviews ever:
