Guardian Music — Plus: Prolific sibling strikeforces; Early international retirements (2); and this town ain't big enough for the Champions League. Send your questions and answers to knowledge@guardian.co.uk and follow us on Twitter"Sheffield United fan Flea of the R... more info

Mjsbigblog — The American Idol 11 crew, including Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Ryan Seacrest auditioned golden ticket winners in the golden triangle Wednesday and Thursday. Oh. That would be Pittsburgh, PA. It's Idol's first trip to the Steel... more info

Guardian Music — David Boswell makes more exciting, challenging techno than most hyped electronic acts. So why haven't you heard of him?Sheffield is a city that incubates musical mavericks, but even by the Steel City's standards David Boswell, aka Bozzwell, walks alo... more info

Altsounds — Like many good things which just seem to happen and you don't know who to thank, some people behind the scenes just like to get on with their work and not indulge in too much trumpet blowing. There's been an aural revolution happening week in, we... more info

Guardian Music — Tramlines Festival, SheffieldFollowing last year's success it's difficult to choose which admirable aspects of Sheffield's free, urban, Tramlines festival are most noteworthy. Perhaps it's the desire to eradicate the queuing, the only blight of 2009'... more info

Guardian Music — Videocrash Presents... 3D Disco, LondonSo you've done Avatar and Alice In Wonderland, but it's been a while since you last popped on those rather dashing 3D glasses. Instead of going back to the cinema, head to The Forum, where the Videocrash host a ... more info

Guardian Music — Follow local DJ and musician Toddla T's tour of some of the key venues on the Steel City's music and arts sceneChristian BennettTony Naylor more info

Guardian Music — The Steel City's local music scene has produced such luminaries as Pulp and the Arctic Monkeys. DJ Toddla T gives an insider's tour of the best places to hear the Sheffield soundChristian BennettTony Naylor more info

NME - The Daily Download — Of all the tracks on the Boom DJ from the Steel City's debut 'Skanky Skanky', it's the Benjamin Zephaniah-featuring, Joe Goddard-produced 'Rebel' that really stood out for me. As the album attests the guy's a prodigious genre hoover, something als... more info

Time Out, London — Steel City new romantics ABC headline, with support from Essex wordsmith Scroobius Pip and Apple laptop knob-twiddler/producer Dan Le Sac more info