Guardian Music — The BBC could hold a Eurovision-style contest to decide the next unlikely Christmas No 1There's a problem with social media. You can only use it to do a good thing once, and then everybody's at it, cheapening the original idea. A case in point is th... more info

Guardian Music — Plus! The mega list of lists – AKA all the other stuff we didn't have room for2010's best guest appearancesBon Iver on Kanye's Lost In The World It might be quicker to compile a list of people who didn't feature on Kanye's epic My Beautiful Dark Tw... more info

Guardian Music — It had the makings of an ego-driven mess. But Kanye tempered his ambition to paint a compelling portrait of a troubled artistKanye West has been called many things, but you could never accuse him of being a man of mystery. Ever since the phrase "I'mm... more info

melophobe — Rob da Bank over at BBC Radio 1 had a hell of a 2-hour show on Saturday. I don’t think I stopped moving the entire time, and my ass actually started to tingle from chair dancing. Not only did he kick it off with some amazing house songs, he feature... more info

Guardian Music — (Planet Mu)Chicago may be the crucible of house, but its latest craze – known as footwork – defies most definitions of dance music. You shouldn't be able to dance to these tinny, skeletal, sped-up, repetitive, arrhythmic tracks, but fleet-footed ... more info

Guardian Music — In The House That Made Me, Boy George shows us round a reconstruction of his childhood home. But these are the residences we really want to nosy around …In The House That Made Me, Boy George shows us around a reconstruction of his childhood home, a... more info

Guardian Music — Combining literate songwriting with scratchy textures, this Scottish artist could be the Aphex Twin of piano balladry or a post-glitch EltonHometown: Edinburgh.The lineup: Andrew Eaton (vocals, piano).The background: If yesterday's band reminded us o... more info

NME — The event takes place in Minehead on March 11-13 more info

Altsounds — Firstly *Kid Adrift* release their new single *'A4 in Ecstasy'* on *Island Records*. Inspired by Aphex Twin and Pretty Hate Machine era Nine Inch Nails, its processed beats and tough direct sound signals a leap on from the 'Oxytocin EP' that was re... more info

Guardian Music — It opens with Lady Gaga's Bad Romance playing over Aphex Twin's Windowlicker. Ridiculously creative – or just cheating?Like Danger Mouse, 2 Many DJs and, more recently, the cast of Glee, Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) makes music entirely out of samp... more info