Totally Fuzzy — Jolly Joker said... # Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady [1933-1937] # Miles Davis - Bitches Brew [1970/1999 reissue] # Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 [6CD] # T-Bone Walker - Funky Town [1969] # Phil Lesh & Friends - Love Will See You Through ... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — I don't think any band gets less appreciation than the Jam.  Just taking a listen to music today, you can hear their influence everywhere.  The Strokes, The Arctic Monkeys, The Libertines, Against Me! all owe their careers to the sound that Paul ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — There was a time a while back when I wasn't obsessed by this blog and I used to spend many hours watching music channels via the satellite dish, particularly MTV2. I picked up on a fair new things that way, and one of the songs I most enjoyed was App... more info

411 Mania — From Nirvana's All Apologies, Eminem's Criminal, and AC/DC's Squealer to Nas' If I Ruled the World, Arctic Monkeys' 505, Tool's Third Eye, and Stone Sour's Zzyzx Rd., the 411Music staffers discuss their top 5 favorite closing tracks in the latest ed... more info

Guardian Music — Synth-pop pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to return with first album featuring the band's original lineup since 1986Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark have announced their first studio album in 14 years, to be called History of Modern. Alth... more info

NME — Chris McClure fronts new Sheffield band The Violet May more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — After revolutionizing metal with his band Quicksand, Walter Screifels formed the band Rival School putting all the pop punk bands out there to shame.  He followed it up with Walking Concert, showing bands like Arctic Monkeys and the Strokes what was... more info

The Newsroom — Hawkwind are honoured as Florence and the Machine lead the Mojo nominations, followed by Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys and Richard Hawley more info

Guardian Music — Not all politicians are tough on grime, tough on the causes of grime. In fact, some of them are making hopeless attempts to be down with the kidsIt's normal for politicians to try and gain some cred by talking about music (who can forget Gordon Brown... more info

Guardian Music — The new album from the Television Personalities songsmith confirms that he is the poet laureate of working-class LondonSometimes pop music surprises me. Who would have thought MGMT were big Television Personalities fans? I was shocked to see they had... more info