Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Beady Eye were born on August 28, 2009, the night Oasis died. Backstage at Paris’s annual Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam Gallagher, bedeviling each other since childhood, entered into what would prove their final altercation (involving the s... more info

Reuters — NEW YORK (Reuters) - From Michael Jackson to James Brown, Harlem's The Apollo Theater is famed for helping launch some of the most successful figures in U.S. black entertainment and marking their influence in popular culture. more info

Guardian Music — Few artists are true architects of their genre – but DJ Kool Herc has that distinction. It's time for hip-hop to pay him backIt's hardly a surprise that Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell is struggling to pay medical bills after an undisclosed condition re... more info

Guardian Music — Five-year-old spin-off from classical music Proms axed because of efficiency savingsBBC Radio 2's Electric Proms has fallen victim to the corporation's latest-round of cost-cutting with last year's event, featuring Robert Plant, Neil Diamond and Sir ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said... V.A. - Electro Breakdance, The Real Old School Revival V.A. - The Jazz Album 2006 [Box Set] http://bestfbothworlds.blogspot.com Levin said... Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982)FLAC Simon And Garfunkel - 20 Greatest Hits (1991) Elvesz... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Andrew St. Clair Lee Fields & the Expressions Throughout the 1970s, North Carolina's Lee Fields was better known as "Little JB," owing to his considerable debt to James Brown's indomitable presence both onstage and on record. Sporting a... more info

Guardian Music — Darren Williams trawls second-hand record shops like a music-store magpie, giving old R&B hits the J Dilla treatmentHometown: Manchester.The lineup: Darren Williams (music, production).The background: We're feeling a bit nervous because in about five... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz pianist who became the music's most articulate and widely heard advocateCharles Seeger, father of the folk singer Pete Seeger, once told a revealing jazz story which he heard on a 1950s trip to a conference of musicologists. An eminent delegat... more info

Guardian Music — How the tireless musical innovator came to make, in Bitches Brew, one of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all timeBetween 1945, when he hustled his way on to New York's new bebop scene as Charlie Parker's teenage trumpeter, and the turbulent year o... more info

Guardian Music — 24 December: And so we reach the end. For our final audio advent calendar entry Domino has put together several hours of festive favourites. Happy Christmas!We finish our audio advent calendar with four hours of Christmas music chosen by Domino to g... more info