Topix — Space had the Big Bang. Space rock had Hawkwind's Space Ritual , the 1973 double album melding cosmic power and improv vibes. more info

ContactMusic — Former Hawkwind star Huw Lloyd Langton has lost his battle with cancer, aged 61.The guitarist, who played on the group's debut album in 1970 and... more info

Guardian Music — Notes & Queries is a series where readers answer other readers' questions, on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts. Add your question or answer belowHawkwind had only one hit single, in 1972, but are still go... more info

Guardian Music — RR regular sonofwebcore gives us his pick of the answers to last week's question: what are the best songs about philosophers?Readers recommend old hand Pairubu reckons the brainy kids haven't enough friends to form a band. Nevertheless, plenty of son... more info

ContactMusic — A festival which was to feature performances by prog-rock icons Rick Wakeman and Hawkwind has been scrapped due to health and safety concerns The Crystal Palace Garden Party was scheduled to take place in London on 23 June 12 but organisers have pull... more info

Guardian Music — Four readers on the Sheffield singer's latest albumEarlier this week we asked readers to submit their own reviews of Richard Hawley's latest album Standing at the Sky's Edge, which you can listen to in full here. If you'd like to let us know your tho... more info

Guardian Music — How do you replace 1,600 LPs after a shipping mix-up results in US Customs destroying the whole lot? It takes a few generous friends, tenacious trawling of record shops, a research guru – and a whole lot of cash, writes Ed Vulliamy'But you can ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Flying Eyes are a heavy, psychedelic rock band hailing from Baltimore, Maryland. Their name comes from a 1962 science fiction novel about giant, disembodied eyes that descend from outer space to control humanity. Since forming in 2007, they have... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — I always thought it was a bit of a bummer that while I was enjoying myself at Hawkwind's Strange Daze festival somewhere on the other side of the ocean (well, Paris) Princess Diana was being hunted down by a pack... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Noel Gallagher: not the staid three-chord classicist some perhaps thought, it turns out. Created in tandem with his High Flying Birds solo album, the man they call The Chief has a second record under his own name out this year and it'll sound (litera... more info