Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectAndrew Morrison runs the blog Adventures in Disco.What was the first song you ever bought?Weezer – Buddy HollyI started buying albums when I was about... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Video of the DayArtist: Eytan and The Embassy Video: "Everything Changes" Highlight: "'Everything Changes' was written on two consecutive New Year's Eves as a 'don't give up' note-to-self when I was unemployed and trying to figure out ho... more info

411 Mania — What's with these homies dissing my girl? Why do they gotta front? In this edition of The Savage Animal, Mikey MiGo sits down with the three studio albums released by Buddy Holly. This, a rant on internet memes, the making of Rockstar Wrestling, a Te... more info

Guardian Music — Fifty years ago this week, a nervous band called the Rollin' Stones played their first gig – to a bemused crowd of jazz fans. Christopher Sandford, the band's biographer, charts a revolutionIn the summer of 1962, the management of the Academy cinem... more info

Guardian Music — Koko, LondonMatthew Ward is set to bid farewell to his cult status. After a decade spent forging a solo career in the cosy backwater of the US alt-country and indie-folk scenes, the singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon, saw his seventh album, A Wa... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Canada-based music-services firm opens an office in Los Angeles. It believes its holistic approach will work despite the industry's struggles.Seb Webber stood in a stark office space 12 floors above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, surveying his ne... more info

Mercury News, California — Buddy Holly lives on in benefit performances for San Jose Stage. more info

Guardian Music — MGMT, the Kills and Best Coast to cover some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits on forthcoming albumSome of the world's biggest indie artists have come together with a host of music legends to celebrate the work of Fleetwood Mac on a new compilation.The... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Hundred in the Hands (sometimes abbreviated as THITH) is an American electropop duo formed in 2008 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The band consists of Eleanore Everdell (vocals, keyboards) and Jason Friedman (guitar, programming). The ban... more info

Guardian Music — 1957: Co-written by Buddy Holly, this still sounds more poignant and fresher than anything elseEveryone needs to start somewhere, and this was the song that a group called the Quarrymen first recorded, as a demonstration disc, the following year, sho... more info