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

NME — Franz Ferdinand teamed up with La Roux to cover Blondie's 'Call Me' at the Shockwaves NME Awards tonight (February 25). more info

Idolator — ARTIST: Yeah Yeah Yeahs TITLE: It's Blitz! RELEASE DATE: April 14, 2009 WEB DEBUT: Feb. 23, 2009 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: If your first sight of Karen O was her pouring beer all over her hipster-trash outfit in a frantic, sweaty Brownie's, you might have ... more info

8/1 — MP3: Blondie - Call MeMP3: Franz Ferdinand - Call Me (Blondie Cover] more info

Persona Sauna — If you aren't familiar with it already, War Child: Heroes is charity album that has also chosen to create a compilation of covers, but it gives it an American Idol-esque flavor by asking the original artists to choose who should attempt to remake the... more info