Guardian Music — Music gives us moments when – with a lyric, a chord change, a note or a drumbeat – a hand seems to come out and take our ownFor weeks now, the walls of London Underground stations have been plastered with Christmas advertisements for comedy DVDs,... more info

Guardian Music — Find out what our readers selected as the best music of 2011. You won't believe what's at number oneThe internet is a wonderful thing. It can give a voice to the voiceless, and allow people to gather together in order to further causes that might be ... more info

Guardian Music — Maddy Costa talks to the composers and musicians taking a genre-bending approach to pop-classical fusionsIn his book The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross suggests: "One possible destination for 21st-century music is a final 'great fusion': intelligent pop ar... more info

Guardian Music — Wise Blood These Wings (Loose Lips)Wise Blood's Chris Laufman joins Rod Stewart, Joe Strummer and various gentlemen of the blues in a surprisingly full list of musicians who have, at one time or another, earned a wage digging graves. One hopes he exe... more info

Guardian Music — Tell us what music you've been enjoying recently, and listen to some recommendationsThings get a bit heavy in this week's playlist, with Iron Maiden and Enslaved bringing a large dash of metal to proceedings. To temper that we have Belle & Sebastian ... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Sean Michaels recalls stumbling over a melancholy masterpiece in the depths of the Canadian winterIn 2001, I was 19 and melancholy. It was winter in Montreal, my first year away from home, my firs... more info

Guardian Music — Rihanna, put some clothes on! Bob Dylan, do your own paintings! Readers, tell us your favourite album covers! It's all nag nag nag this week …Causing a fuss this weekBrian Wilson: "No Beach Boys reunion!"INXS: "We've got a new singer!"Bob Dylan: "T... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Malcolm Jack writes about an album that will always feel like homeAppropriately enough for a band whose sheer bookishness winds people up, me and Belle and Sebastian got off on the wrong foot. In ... more info

Guardian Music — Guardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Rosie Swash reveals why she still swoons at the sight of Jarvis CockerThere's something about hearing a song at 16 that stays with you ... more info

Guardian Music — This week on the web music roundup, the BBC's extensive coverage of the Reading festival came at the unfortunate expense of the Notting Hill CarnivalIn a UK music scene currently dominated – and enlivened – by urban music, it seems a pity that th... more info