8/1 — Motown, Dusty Springfield, Ronettes, Smiths, New Order, Kinks, Spector, Scott Walker, Sticky Fingers, There She Goes, Donovan, Blondie, Bobby D, Twisterella, Dionne Warwick, Minnie Ripperton, Lee and Nancy, Serge and Jane, Camera Obscura, el Perro de... more info

Pasta Primavera — Like the cube I asked when I read the mail in my inbox relating to London’s Rubicks and their new EP Red Rock due out in April.  No of course not the cube - the four piece band that distorts and electrobeats some great songs.  You could easil... more info

A Deeper Shade of Soul — Talking Heads seem to be in the air these days. Whether in their obvious influence in bands like Vampire Weekend, or David Byrne’s continuing influence as both musician and thinker, their legacy continues to resonate even more powerfully with... more info

Pop Bytes — † FROM DJ PAUL V. This week's mashup is so smooth and spectacular, it glistens. It has everything to do with one of my favorite new singers, Sam Sparro. The handsome ex-Aussie - and now Angeleno - dropped, hands-down, one of the most sub... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Blondie [ tickets ]'s founding guitarist Chris Stein went to the Big Apple in the early '70s to play in a band like the New York Dolls [ tickets ]. During a stint with The Stilettos [ tickets ], he fell in love with then-waitress Debo... more info

Guardian Music — They thought he was mad, they spat him off stage, he hit the drugs ... But Grandmaster Flash gave 'DJ' a whole new meaning. Andrew Purcell meets a man who scratched his way to the topWith hindsight, making a mixtape of old school funk and hip-hop for... more info

The Culture Of Me — Miami Horror aka Benjamin Plant has been behind the mask and made some of the quintessential bangers of the last 365 or so and he's taking his act out on the road, playing live sets all over North America (and a couple in South America too) in ... more info

Guardian Music — Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon played a surprise reunion gig, with a stripped-back version of This is a Low, while Oasis were booed after winning best British bandBlur's Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon played a surprise reunion gig at this year's NME Aw... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — It’s a common held theory that you can’t criticise a charity record. The phrase ‘but it’s for a good cause’ is often used as a defence against a half thought out album compiled with little care for the listener and l... more info

Guardian Music — Academy, IslingtonYou would not know it, but Brody Dalle, the former lead singer/guitarist with the Distillers, is pursuing a pop direction with her new outfit, Spinnerette. She still looks every inch the alt.rock pinup in tight jeans and vest, her u... more info