Guardian Music — One of the amazing things about the Queen frontman was that he successfully evaded the rock world's gaydarHard rock and "sewing" seem incongruous bedfellows. Nevertheless, if you were a headbanger in the 70s and 80s, chances are you spent more than a... more info

Guardian Music — From Beethoven's letters to Bob Dylan's Chronicles, the musician chooses books that reveal the private lives behind the public melodiesSongwriter, arranger, producer and guitarist Nile Rodgers is one of the most influential pop musicians of the last ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Kurt Christiansen Judas Priest @ Izod Center "Pop "retirements" prove to be about as reliable as political promises. Witness the "just kidding, folks" resurrections of briefly absent stars Barbra Streisand, David Bowie and Cher. So fans mig... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller keeps his solo career rolling with the upcoming release of The Interpreter: Live at Largo, a dozen live acoustic covers of some of his favorite songs by David Bowie, the Pixies, the Kinks, Elliott Smith and more. T... more info

Guardian Music — The singer and DJ talks about his familyI've got four brothers and one sister. I'm the middle, needy, child. The middle child is always deranged. My brother Kevin, who was born the year after me, was born with tapeworm and nearly died. For about two ... more info

Time — Moby is really, really nice. I can say this from personal experience: a few months ago, I interviewed the vegan musician (and tea shop owner) about his favorite song of all-time, David Bowie’s “Heroes,” and when the interview was over he gave m... more info

411 Mania — Who composed and sang all those songs for ABC's TGIF lineup? What ever happened to the Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Lou Reed friendship? What's the current top American holiday album? All this and more in this week's edition of Ask 411 Music! more info

Guardian Music — Produced by Alex Kapranos, this promising lot operate a hair's breadth from Franz Ferdinand's funkily acerbic styleHometown: London.The lineup: Martyn, Thom, Tom, Lawrence, Mike.The background: They're evidently running out of band names. There's jus... more info

Guardian Music — Music of refinement and learning, with a bossa nova twistThe many young Japanese in the audience confirmed the interest pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto still prompts. He was idolised in the days of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, an electro-pop t... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Amy Walker Good Frames is the project of Berlin based musician Frank Cifarelli. He put in a lot of time and effort playing, programming and producing his debut EP Still. Eighties New Wave is a huge, with a hint of Euro disco thrown in, especi... more info