Guardian Music — Lucian Grainge remains bullish after music giant gets green light for £1.2bn takeover, despite EC's demand for divestmentsUniversal Music chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge has reiterated his pledge to make £100m in annual savings after bu... more info

Guardian Music — La Musique, DerryAfter bouncing in and out of numerous venues around the city of Derry for half a decade, the La Musique guys have chosen the Gweedore Bar as the place to host their fifth birthday celebrations. Since setting up shop in 2007, La Musiq... more info

Guardian Music — From the Clash to Boy George to Ian Dury, musical creativity and squat culture are inseparable – which is why this new law is such a bad ideaThis weekend a new law came into force that makes squatting – the occupation of empty buildings by otherw... more info

Guardian Music — Twice a week we invite independent bloggers to tell us about what they do. Today, a site looking at the best box sets aroundWho are you and what's your blog called?I'm Paul Sinclair and my blog is called SuperDeluxeEdition.Where are you based?London.... more info

Prefix — In exciting news for fans of Depeche Mode, information about the band’s upcoming album has started to trickle out. ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/depeche-modes-dave-gahan-gives-insight-into-the-ne/67466/ more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Debi Del Grande Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan recently did some moonlighting as the singer on the new Soulsavers album The Light The Dead See. And [Saturday] night in L.A. at the famed studios of the Capitol Records... more info

Prefix — Depeche Mode singer David Gahan has lent his honeyed, mournful voice to production duo Soulsavers' latest album The Light The ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/watch-soulsavers-take-me-back-home-video/67142/ more info

Guardian Music — Bowie was a Starman on Top of the Pops 40 years ago. But whether he created havoc in our living rooms is another matterDavid Bowie's performance of Starman may not have changed anything, but it's still an extraordinary piece of television. On Thursda... more info

Guardian Music — With a revival in cumbia music spreading, now is the perfect time for a supergroup of Colombian musicians to bring their infectious, rump-rotating sound to the UKIt's 1am in a squat in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and Pedro "Ramaya" Beltrán, a... more info

CNN Showbiz — When Depeche Mode chose Soulsavers, the English electronica production team of Rich Machin and Ian Glover, to open for them on their 2009 European tour, they didn't know it would be just the beginning of their musical collaboration. more info