Elvis Costello's been hanging out with a diverse group of artists this year (Fall Out Boy, Lucinda Williams, the Police, a Jonas Brother), but he really seems to have hit it off with Jenny Lewis. (She contributed vocals to his Momofuku and he returned the favor on her Acid Tongue.) Seeing Elvis join Jenny's band on Letterman this week was a trea...

Well, technically she's covering Thievery Corporation (Feat. Wayne Coyne) via "March of the Hate Machine (Into the Sun)" from TC's 2005 album The Cosmic Game. It appears on her 4-song digital EP of protest songs, Lu in '08, where she also does Dylan and Buffalo Springfield and offers an original. Listen to it all.

In the decade since breakthrough Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams has increased her output considerably, but the quality of her work has suffered; on Little Honey, she thankfully makes nods toward her strengths and suppresses most of her more unsavory musical habits.read more

AP - From the false start on the opening rocker "Real Love" to the fade-out of AC/DC cover "It's a Long Way to the Top," anyone familiar with Lucinda Williams may notice something unusual while listening to her new disc.

Reuters - Lucinda Williams will release a digital-only EP of protest songs on October 28, two weeks after the veteran roots-rocker's ninth studio record, "Little Honey," reaches stores.