Guardian Music — (Island)Which came first, the fashion for urban 20-year-olds to wear brogues and waistcoats or the success of rustic British pop? It's hard to tell, since a general brownness has been ubiquitous for the past half-decade in a period when British fashi... more info

Perez Hilton — X Factor’s season two auditions continued last night in Greensboro, North Carolina and the judges found themselves in the midst of one FRIGHTENING storm! After XF hopeful, Krysten Colon, was given a second chance after singing an Adele song, it see... more info

Guardian Music — Union Chapel, London"Call the Samaritans!" yelps New Zealand's Kimbra Lee Johnson, jolting, convulsing and throwing coin-operated Pierrot poses around the Union Chapel stage in a pink puffball mini-dress, like a demonically possessed princess doll co... more info

Guardian Music — Catch up with the last seven days in the world of musicThis week's most popular stories1. Chris Brown's albums sabotaged with protest stickersIn the wake of the outcry over the singer's tattoo, protesters are putting warning stickers on his CDs that ... more info

Guardian Music — The latest piece to get the Ukulele treatment is Terry Riley's classic minimalist composition In C. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's George Hinchliffe explains how this cornerstone of American minimalism has been reinterpreted for the ukulele... more info

Guardian Music — Producer claims Winehouse affected her vocal style, saying 'by the end … she had become just a comic character of herself'Amy Winehouse had a "fake voice", according to Portishead's Geoff Barrow, who also called the singer "Whiney Shitehouse". Barr... more info

Prefix — When you think there's been enough dance and club remixes of Adele's hit singles, you'll have to accept one more ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/watch-adele-vs-daft-punk-something-about-the-fire-/69390/ more info

Consequence of Sound — You go boys. more info

Chorus.fm — *The Promise Ring* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thepromisering) (with a special appearance by Mike Kinsella) cover *Adele* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/tags/adele), here (http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-promise-ring-covers-adele,70725/). Submitte... more info

Mjsbigblog — Four albums may have sold over 100K this week. Woo? Q4 better be more exciting than most of this year. Ever since Adele started falling down the charts, where is the fun? Anyway, this is the weekly sales thread. Let’s hope for some Idol and X-Fact... more info