Guardian Music — This Canadian band's divinely daft pomp-pop is like a thunderbolt from on highHometown: Toronto, Canada.The lineup: Rob Drake, Carlin Nicholson, Mike O'Brien, Neil Quin.The background: Sting, of course, would call it synchronicity. See, only last nig... more info

Guardian Music — With Dexys Midnight Runners soon to release their first studio album for 27 years, we've scoured Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – to bring you this encounter with the band on the eve of the release of t... more info

Guardian Music — New record will feature contribution from star's brother-in-law Ringo StarrThe Eagles' Joe Walsh has announced his first solo album in two decades. Analog Man, produced by Electric Light Orchestra's Jeff Lynne – and featuring Ringo Starr – is due... more info

Guardian Music — Cargo, London"This song is in nine different parts," says Bill Doss, as a white-bearded brass player resembling an Amish bear trapper readies his gargantuan sousaphone, and Olivia Tremor Control's other frontman Will Cullen Hart babbles wildly to him... more info

ContactMusic — Two men will stand trial over the tragic death of Electric Light Orchestra star Mike Edwards after he was killed in a freak accident in 2010 Farmer Brian Burden 47 and 23-year-old contractor Russell Williams appeared at Plymouth Crown Court in Englan... more info

Guardian Music — After the president tweeted his 2012 campaign playlist, we did a bit of headphone analysis. But what songs would you have included?President Barack Obama tweeted his 2012 campaign Spotify playlist on Thursday – which is in itself noteworthy in that... more info

Popdose — Rob Smith's new vinyl column opens with E.L.O.'s disco record, "Discovery." more info

Guardian Music — Since Air's Moon Safari, Gallic hipsters have doused themselves liberally in l'eau du fromage. Mais, pourquoi?The trailer for Phoenix's new tour documentary, From A Mess To The Masses, is all cold hard urban underpasses and sweaty stage invasions, pa... more info

Time — Welcome to the new TIME Entertainment, in which yours truly at Tuned In is being joined by TIME's other arts writers to form a kind of critical supergroup. (If Tuned In is the ELO of time.com, TIME Entertainment is its Traveling Wilburys.) more info

Guardian Music — Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: My mother's pilgrimage to RomeThis is a photograph of my mother, Mary McCarthy, on her way to Rome in 1950. Her love of travel had already led her from the rural farming community in Ireland ... more info