• The Artic Monkeys are big alright, and the superlatives are flowing from Kelefa Sanneh's article in today's NY Times.

"The debut Arctic Monkeys album, 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' (Domino), has been instantly — and accurately — hailed as a modern classic, even though it was only released a week ago."

Yes, it's a great album, no doubt about it, but let's give it at least seven days of hindsight before the word classic is used, shall we? Premature hyperbole is more of a British sport than an American one.

• Yahoo Music has put together an official Grammy site that will host unique content for the February 8th awards show. It was Grammy-related news, information on nominees and video streams of nominated songs. And there's a special "Great Grammy Moments" section for trips down memory lane. (Via Digital Music News)

• Billboard.com has its own Grammy section, with news, category profiles, a list of nominees and an article that reveals the secrets of Grammy voting.

• There's a lot of talk about the possibility that Google will open a music store. Coolfer would happily take just a music player from Google. That alone would surely be an improvement over all others.

• Listen to Belle and Sebastian do their first Mark Radcliffe session in years today on BBC Radio 2, between 10:30pm and 12:00am GMT. You can listen online later as well.