Guardian Music — Gorilla, ManchesterWhen Alice Cooper recently accused today's rock stars of lacking testosterone and "playing from the brain", he could have had David Longstreth in mind. The 30-year-old Dirty Projectors frontman is an almost comically exaggerated po... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Ummagma is a Canadian-Ukrainian shoegaze post-rock duo. Shauna McLarnon (vocals, composition, lyrics) and Alexx Kretov (composition, instruments, arrangement, recording, vocals) met in Moscow in 2003 and fell in love. They have just released two f... more info

Guardian Music — Meet a Japanese shoegazer/chillwaver who's been sending bloggers into ecstasies over her take on what we might, if we were so inclined, call sepulchral raptureReading this on mobile? Listen to Cuushe hereHometown: Kyoto, Japan.The lineup: Mayuko Hito... more info

Guardian Music — A week after joking at a party that he was in a band, Rudy Tambala found himself at the start of a journey that produced some of the 80s' most extraordinary musicThe way Rudy Tambala tells it, his band AR Kane should never really have existed. Surely... more info

Guardian Music — We asked NYFW It girl – and in-demand DJ – Becka Diamond to give us her top five songs that she'll be playing on the runwayWhether it's an up-tempo chart song, an old skool rap beat or classical music on loop, the music on the runway matters. It'... more info

Guardian Music — This French singer-songwriter is in thrall to the Beatles, sunshine pop and French melodyHometown: Paris.The lineup: Melody Prochet (vocals, instruments).The background: One of the albums being talked up as an autumn highlight is the forthcoming one ... more info

ContactMusic — Former Cocteau Twins star Elizabeth Fraser has revealed shes still not on speaking terms with former lover and bandmate Robin Guthrie 15 years after the group split The Pearly Dewdrops Drops singer is preparing to launch her li... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonAt the height of the Cocteau Twins' fame, when they were one of the bands upon whom the very notion of indie music in the 80s rested, it would have seemed unimaginable for Elizabeth Fraser to become any more enigmatic than ... more info

Guardian Music — We get in the mood for Elizabeth Fraser's upcoming Meltdown performance with a trip to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – for an 80s interview with the Cocteau TwinsSo I spent a Friday afternoon eating... more info

Guardian Music — Joan Wasser on playing violin with Antony and the Johnsons, and the new songs she's writing for Meltdown What does Antony mean to you? I walked into an Antony and the Johnsons rehearsal in 1999 to cover for a violinist and I felt instantly at home. A... more info