Twangville — Let’s flash back to 1996…or 1997. I’m in college at the time, and on this particular night at a small club in Columbia, South Carolina named the Elbow Room checking out the Drag from Myrtle Beach. They put on a pretty good show bu... more info

Live Daily — For the first time in four years, British electro duo Massive Attack [ tickets ] will head stateside this spring in support of their recently released album, "Heligoland." The three-week outing kicks off May 7 in Toronto and consists of nine shows... more info

The Music Fix — Feature: Shooting the breeze with a good friend of Elbow....Shooting the breeze with a good friend of Elbow. more info

Guardian Music — (4AD)Following collaborations with the ­Danish National Chamber Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia, ­Copenhagen's principal indie-electronica-classical experimentalists have taken a ­relatively reined-in approach for their third ­album, a... more info

Guardian Music — According to Metacritic they are. Dave Simpson meets the Texas quartetIn December the US website Metacritic embarked on a campaign to find the "best music of the decade". The site, which aggregates all the reviews it can find of as many albums as pos... more info

Silent Uproar — Massive Attack will follow up Heligoland with a EP of "leftovers" sometime in May. Robert '3D' Del Naja told BBC the EP will hopefully include "Red Light," another track with Guy Garvey of Elbow, and possibly some new material. [bbc.co.uk] more info

Guardian Music — The Killers got facial hair to connote lofty ambition, while Chris Martin grew something as amorphous on his chin as Coldplay's music. So who's next to ditch the razor?Blame it on the Maharishi. In August 1967 the Beatles, fried by pop, fame and LSD,... more info

Guardian Music — (Virgin)The covers album has a bad reputation: it is seen as something that gets released in lieu of something else, evidence that a songwriter's creative juices have dried up. In the case of Peter Gabriel, that's a state of affairs compounded by the... more info

Guardian Music — Let us know what you make of the first Peter Gabriel record in eight years, which covers Talking Heads, Radiohead and BowieFor his first studio album in eight years, Peter Gabriel came up with an audacious plan. He decided to cover the work of his fa... more info

Guardian Music — When Mercury prizewinners Elbow toured the US, they chose a hugely talented but unknown American singer/songwriter to support them. Now Jesca Hoop has followed them home to Manchester… and it's a musical marriage made in heavenIt's one of those... more info