Guardian Music — Jude Rogers salutes a film charting the struggle of indie record shops and their unsung ownersThe British independent record shop hasn't had the rosiest time recently. More than 500 of them have closed in recent years, their racks emptied of glossy s... more info

Guardian Music — Who can blame him? He's a singer-songwriter who came of age in a time when ideology was dumped in favour of triangulation"I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar/Then it meant that you were a protest singer" sang the Smiths in 1985. Lots of peop... more info

Guardian Music — The musical collective known as Africa Express played its first-ever proper gig at the Glastonbury festival in 2007. Here is Algerian singer Rachid Taha covering the Clash's Rock the Casbah with Damon Albarn, Billy Bragg, Baaba Maal and more more info

Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectBarry writes about music at barrygruff.wordpress.comWhat was the first song you bought? Status Quo – Down DownI can't remember my first single but the... more info

Guardian Music — Many thanks to Billy Bragg for his piece on the Woody Guthrie centenary and Bob Dylan's role in the Guthrie legacy (The return of a pariah, 13 July). But let's not forget the British contribution. Although Woody did appear on BBC Radio's Children's H... more info

Guardian Music — Woody Guthrie was shunned by his home state. Now Oklahoma can finally embrace the singer-songwriter's workThe construction team that kept hammering away all night outside my hotel window in downtown Tulsa are gone by the morning, the fierce glare of ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As mentioned earlier today, Billy Bragg -- whose Mermaid Avenue records with Wilco brought the songwriter back in to the pop culture zeitgeist in 1998 -- will be in NYC soon for some Woody Guthrie 100 celebrations. It's part... more info

melophobe — Like Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen needs redemption and hope with his rage and bitterness, even when his despairing characters have every right to their raw anger. So, beware the synth-dominated, sappy clunkers here. That still leaves an EP’s... more info

Guardian Music — Victoria Park, LondonThe rain-lashed trek to Victoria Park in London ends, in the first instance, at the packed comedy tent, where Shappi Khorsandi is making good on the promise of the warning signs that some material on offer won't be suitable for a... more info

Guardian Music — Field Day; The Apple Cart, LondonEvery year Hackney's Victoria Park becomes the London outpost of the festival season and – moved forward two months to avoid clashes with the Olympics – this weekend brings two events. On Sunday there's the family... more info