Guardian Music — Distance in song is measured in the hours from your lover's arms, in the cities that pass and the emptiness you leave behindI suppose it was the Proclaimers who began it. It was the summer of 1988, and for weeks they seemed to be everywhere, two gaw... more info

The Telegraph — John Hiatt's songs have been recorded by everyone from Iggy Pop to Bob Dylan. He talks about his latest album. more info

Guardian Music — Guardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Sarfraz Manzoor shares his love for a Bruce Springsteen masterpieceIt was in the autumn of 1987, after a summer soundtracked by Rick As... more info

Guardian Music — The death, at 96, of David Honeyboy Edwards severs the last living link with the original blues of the Mississippi DeltaArthur Big Boy Crudup, Delta Blind Billy, Papa Charlie McCoy. They sound like the stuff of legend, even before you get to those wh... more info

Guardian Music — Barber's Adagio for Strings, Vaughan Williams and Springsteen top list crowdsourced by WYNC public radioNew York's public radio network faced an interesting challenge when contemplating how to fill the airwaves on the tenth anniversary of the World T... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — On September 6, Charlotte Gainsbourg will release the Terrible Angels EP on Because Music/Elektra. The EP features two unreleased songs: the title track, written and produced by Gainsbourg's IRM collaborator Beck, and "Memoir", written by Conor O'Bri... more info

People.com — He favors Nikes, Bob Dylan, Lance Armstrong and frowning when he's upset more info

Guardian Music — From Sinatra to Dylan, the camera has helped to cement the public mythology of some of our greatest artistsFrom Johnny Cash "flipping the bird" at Jim Marshall's camera during a soundcheck in San Quentin prison to Robert Mapplethorpe's portrait of an... more info

Guardian Music — Professor Will Kaufman has written a biography of the radical American folk singer Woody Guthrie, and is singing his way across the US to promote itWill Kaufman kicks back in the Presidential Inn on the edge of the tiny town of West Branch, Iowa, a... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Last week we discovered that celebrities like to write novels. But you know what they like to write even more than novels? Children's books! And what better way to introduce your wee ones to the hilarity of celebrity culture than with these 15 kid's ... more info