Guardian Music — Here's one for the Leveson inquiry: the Salford bard's thoughts on the Daily Express For a while in the late 1970s John Cooper Clarke was a fixture on the new wave scene, impressively convincing punk rock crowds that what they really wanted to hear w... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Atlantic lists 10 fantastic novels with terrible endings. Paste lists the 20 best uses of Bob Dylan songs in film. Innocent Words interviews singer-songwriter Dar Williams about the influence of Greek mythology on her new album In The Time... more info

Guardian Music — Music news, reviews and discussion from the last seven daysIn the newsBrit awards and ITV apologise to Adele One Direction snubbed by Capital FM after Brits gaffe Blur to headline London Olympics closing concert Rihanna and Chris Brown release two ne... more info

411 Mania — From Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" and Johnny Cash's "Ain't No Grave " to Bob Dylan's "Let Me Die In My Footsteps" and more, 411's C.A. Bell lists the top 10 songs to go with the five stages of grief! more info

Guardian Music — Light in the AtticPop's fading power to shock is thrown into stark relief by this compilation, conceived as the soundtrack to a new book of the same title that charts the black power struggles of the late 60s and early 70s. It's not as if anyone want... more info

Guardian Music — Koko, LondonNow that every MacBook is an Abbey Road studio you can destroy with one fumbled Frappuccino, it can seem as though 87% of Americans have become frazzled troubadours knocking out no-fi fuzz-folk albums in the hope of bagging the ultimate U... more info

Guardian Music — All property is theft. So why not steal someone's life, or someone's work, or someone's dress code?Every month, this column starts life as an impassioned plea that the new musical genre defined by Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak and then developed by ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — When folk singer Karen Dalton died in 1993 at age 55, she left behind two classic but unknown records made in the late 1960s and early ’70s and featuring session players who’d done time with Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, among others. more info

Guardian Music — Bass guitarist with the influential Detroit hard-rock band the MC5The bass guitarist Michael Davis, who has died of liver failure aged 68, joined Detroit's seminal rock band the MC5 in 1965. He stayed with them during their most challenging and incen... more info

Guardian Music — Rock may be uncool, but it's not dead – as long as it accepts its new status as the music of the ageingOn 18 June this year, Paul McCartney will turn 70. "There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that," he says in the latest ... more info