Stopcryingyourheartout.com — It's virtually impossible to prepare for an interview with Noel Gallagher.The former Oasis songwriter's notoriously tack-sharp mind can veer between seemingly disconnected topics in a second. It's best to sit there and do your best to keep up.During ... more info

Guardian Music — The focus of Gimme Shelter is, of course, the Altamont concert, but what have lingered with me are the film's smaller, closer sadnessesIt had been a while since I had seen Gimme Shelter, the 1970 documentary directed by Albert and David Maysles and C... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — 8 out of 10Album InfoRelease Date: October 17, 2011Producer: Noel Gallagher and Dave SardyLabel: Sour MashFact: High Flying Birds is a reference to a Jefferson Airplane trackIs Noel Gallagher fucked? Less than 100 days since his comeback press confer... more info

Guardian Music — From the Manics to Mark E Smith, this week's playlist is the businessIn Japan they have company songs, musical expressions of employee loyalty sung by salarymen. Unfortunately, as regular RR commenter HoshinoSakura points out, "most are horrible". No... more info

Guardian Music — He learned American pop via a hand-built radio, became a psychedelic pop star in his own right, then was tortured by South Korea's dictatorship. Meet the remarkable Shin Joong HyunIt was in 1957, at the spring variety show at the Eighth US Army base ... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThis was one of the most remarkable reunion concerts of the current English folk revival. Twenty-one years on from the release of their classic folk-rock album Freedom and Rain, Oysterband were back on stage with June Tabo... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Noel Gallagher's new project Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds came together in large part because he was bored. "I was in a band, right?" the former Oasis guitarist says. "And I left. And then I wrote some songs. I had a lot of songs left over from... more info

NME — Ex-Oasis leader admits wife Sara MacDonald prefers Kasabian to '…High Flying Birds' more info

We Like it Lossless! — Holy Mountain / 2007Wooden Shjips, a four-piece pysch combo from San Francisco, feature a bassist named Dusty, a guitarist named Ripley, and an organist named Nash. On their debut release for Holy Mountain, the Shjips, like the Jefferson Airplane and... more info

Altsounds — "“8/16" is the band at their most eclectic, riding a swerving tsunamic riff into creeping female vocals. When Ben Verellen joins in with his stomping war cry, the song blossoms into the deranged lovechild of Jefferson Airplane, Boston and Sc... more info