USA Today Music — Robert F. Hendrix, first cousin to legendary Jimi Hendrix, has died. more info

Totally Fuzzy — Today's Live Performance comes from Joe Gooch's post-Ten Years After band Hundred Seventy Split. Even if you had a problem with Ten Years After without Alvin Lee - like I did - Gooch is a fine guitar player in his own right... so if you like... more info

Dlisted — So this is the real reason why Adele had that throat surgery. Adele was moaning and throating in the deeeeeep. France's well-respected and highly esteemed literary journal of le truth, Public Magazine, published an EXLUSIF! story about a tape fe... more info

411 Mania — From Kanye West's "Stronger" being done by 30 Seconds to Mars and The Cure tackling Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" to Leonard Nimoy singing Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" and more, 411's Wyatt E. starts his look at the top 24 worst cover songs of all-... more info

Guardian Music — Rustie, the quiet man of maximalist dance music, produced a groundbreaking album that could only have been made in 2011If Russell "Rustie" Whyte was anything like his music, interviewing him would be a tough gig. He'd be bouncing off the walls, screa... more info

411 Mania — From Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" and Rush's "Tom Sawyer" to the Grateful Dead's "Casey Jones," Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" and more, 411's Christopher Bell breaks down the top 10 songs about guys! more info

411 Mania — Did Jimi Hendrix really open for the Monkees? Why do the Byrds have an album named (untitled)? Does someone really own the copyright for "Happy Birthday?" All this and more in this week's edition of Ask 411 Music! more info

Guardian Music — From India to Iraq, Sesame Street to outer space, the Kronos Quartet make music everywhere. They talk to Tom ServiceThey are the only musicians to have both gone into space and appeared on Sesame Street. All right, the Kronos Quartet didn't actually... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Stewart O'Shields Guitarist Warren Haynes talked to Billboard about the current state of rock. So, is rock is dead? Man, I've been hearing that for over 10 years, and I'm sure some elements of rock, particularly in the mainstream, appear to ... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Over the weekend Erick Sermon delighted us with a track off his soon to be released Breath of Fresh Air mixtape, this time he is back again with a  Jimi Hendrix sample.   more info