Guardian Music — Mayflower, SouthamptonThe jukebox musical is a 21st-century rock phenomenon. Yet while Queen, Abba and Madness's extensive back catalogues may lend themselves easily to theatrical interpretations, veteran US pop-punks Green Day initially appear far... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Reuters reports that a museum devoted to pop group ABBA will open in Stockholm in 2013. The New Yorker and Telegraph profile author Hilary Mantel. NPR is streaming the new Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) album, Dept. of Disappearance (out October... more info

Topix — Former ABBA band member Bjoern Ulvaeus arrives for a news conference Wednesday at the ABBA museum construction site in Stockholm, Sweden. more info

ContactMusic — Seventies supergroup Abba are to be honoured in their native Sweden next year (13) with a special museum exhibit in Stockholm.The collection will... more info

ContactMusic — ABBA's 'Gold' is Britain's best ever selling CD.The Swedish group - made up of Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny... more info

Prefix — Turns out that exactly 30 years ago today, the music industry introduced a groundbreaking new product that would ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/happy-30th-thirtieth-birthday-compact-discs/69959/ more info

Guardian Music — That's the question we asked readers earlier this week – and here's a selection of responses. Is your first album on the list?Earlier this week we asked readers to tell us about the first album they bought. The response was huge, and sadly we can o... more info

Guardian Music — Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: My parents meeting Joan CrawfordWhen I was young I never understood why my parents seemed so pleased about this photograph – known in the family as "the one with Joan Crawford". They told m... more info

Guardian Music — The British artist picks the music that means the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectWhat was the first song you ever bought? Gangsters – The SpecialsI was 14 and I bought it on 7in. I thought they were great. I got into mod music, t... more info

Guardian Music — The blogger runs through the songs that mean the most to her in our Six Songs of Me projectMikala Taylor writes a blog at backstagerider.com.What was the first song you ever bought?Duran Duran – Planet Earth It's funny, I don't actually remember bu... more info