TMZ — Filed under: Don Kirshner, Music, R.I.P. Rock music promoter and producer Don Kirshner died today of heart failure in Boca Raton, Florida. Don gave future superstars like The Police and Billy Joel early national... more info

Altsounds — Alex Winston was given her first guitar when she was 7. When her Dad's advances to teach music to her older brother fell on deaf ears, she was gladly the runner up. Sitting in the basement for hours practicing chord progressions and listening to song... more info

The Telegraph — She's a latter-day Carole King, and hobnobs with pop royalty - so why did Rumer hire Alan Partridge's bandleader? more info

Guardian Music — (Atlantic)At first listen, it would be natural to discount Rumer as one of those gossamer-voiced muzak merchants who come around on Jools Holland just in time for Christmas. The music-buying public's appetite for fresh vintage sounds shows no sign of... more info

Guardian Music — Warm, effortless and instantly familiar, Rumer's Radio 2-friendly debut is hard to resist, says Alexis PetridisAround the 25th anniversary of the release of Sgt Pepper, a journalist asked David Mellor, then the national heritage secretary, for his fa... more info

Guardian Music — It worked for Motown, and now the music industry is doing it again – letting No 1 hit-writers sing the songs themselves. Michael Cragg meets pop's new performersWhen Bruno Mars's debut single hit the No 1 spot on both sides of the Atlantic last ... more info

Guardian Music — The Guardian music staff reach for their P45s as a new recruit starts blogging for usEarlier this week, while conducting intensive research out of office hours (read: faffing about on Twitter), guardian.co.uk/music's Tim Jonze spotted a tweet from no... more info

Totally Fuzzy — simon2307 said... From 1973 a rare ? bootleg of Gram Parsons and The Fallen Angels. Buckaroo Still Feeling Blue That’s All It Took California Cotton Fields Cry One More Time A Song For You If You Don’t Love Him (with Emmylou Harris) Hang On Sloop... more info

Totally Fuzzy — paulamule said... Hi, -ROCKSTARS THEN AND NOW (for laughting!) http://paulamule.blogspot.com Thanks Fuzzy! Mister Moods said... Brand New Moods presents: - Stevie Wonder "Innervisions" (remaster) When Stevie Wonder applied his tremendous songwriting... more info

Guardian Music — 606 Club, LondonChristine Tobin has proved herself as a jazz musician, a songwriter and as a Leonard Cohen interpreter of distinction. She is also a generous collaborator, lending her warm vocals to projects as different as Don Paterson's Lammas, Har... more info