Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Benji Lanyado says it just has to be the first Oasis album for himIn the summer of 1995 I caught a bus to Bromley, aiming for the HMV in the Glades shopping centre. I knew exactly what I was going... more info

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Guardian Music — We run down the most overused repeat offenders, from REM's Everybody Hurts to Blur's Song 2 – but which did we miss?No one expects experimental new music to accompany TV montages of people sobbing in slow motion or wearily sanding floors. But latel... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The former Oasis guitarist and songwriter is famed for his rants about other acts, with Blur, Robbie Williams, Scissor Sisters, Keane and Jack White among those on the receiving end of his volleys of disdain.His latest target is Lady Gaga, despite hi... more info

Guardian Music — Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills called it quits, but Queen are soldiering on … with a little help from some stand-insReactions to the REM splitDave Simpson heralds the end of an eraREM: the band that taught alternative rock how to grow old... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Miranda Sawyer relates how Damon Albarn and co helped her through the breakdown of a relationshipBlur's 13 is a weird album. Overtly emotional, full of yearning and upset, yet scratchy, scuzzy, so... more info

Guardian Music — (Split Records)For all their talk of Latin beats, south Londoners Flash Fiktion are a psychedelic indie-electro act, whose riotous music nods to Klaxons, early Blur and Simian Mobile Disco when they were plain Simian. That in itself is nothing new, b... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Money & Celebrity is the third studio album by English trio The Subways, produced by Stephen Street, who's previously worked with the likes of The Smiths and Blur. "Money and Celebrity" is scheduled for release on 19 September 2011. Read more... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums – here, Gareth Grundy explains his love for The Good, the Bad and the Queen"It's hard to imagine an anti-war song becoming a radio hit, as it might have done in the 60s. The way people listen to music ... more info

Guardian Music — PJ Harvey's prize-winning album skewers idyllic invocations of Englishness and exposes the brutal, violent realityMusical musings on the English nation have tended towards the cosily nostalgic. Think of the Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society, ... more info