Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, perhaps the most written-about, celebrated, feted, honored and generally praised album of all time. Lord knows we’ve written about it enough (among other things, we put it at Number One on our list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time). But we’re not sure that we’ve heard from you. So here’s your chance: Submit your own review and correct forty years of reviews by critics who just didn’t get it. Not like you get it. Show us.

If you felt like ringing in the New Year taking in some live music, you had a buttload of options. Here are some of the shows we dug. Tell us what we missed.

• Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley and Cat Power hosting a genre-fucking megabash in Los Angeles
• Clap Your hands and Say Yeah previewing a slew of (excellent) new songs in New York City
• OK Go and All-American Rejects doing a Times Square West thing outdoors in downtown Vegas
• Levon Helm and special guest Alain Toussaint in Woodstock, New York
• Blondie rocking Hollywood
• The Raconteurs keeping it on the level in Chicago
• Trey Anastasio catering to the hippie gambler demo in Atlantic City

Peep our New Year’s photo gallery here.

Modest Mouse played Webster Hall this month, earning the lead Rolling Stone live review. Check out the review below, and tell us what you thought.

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