Here Comes The Flood — photo: Shawn Lee Singers come in all shapes and sizes and only few them make a lasting impression after going thrugh a fews bars of music. NYC based Imani Uzuri is one if them. Her voice, slightly husky and warm like Joan Armatrading's, can reach th... more info

Guardian Music — DaddyPig gives us his choices from last week's threadThis week's playlist has been selected by Tim Sanders, who goes by the username DaddyPig.Telephones both connect and frustrate; disembodying us even as we whisper into each others' ears. Earth's or... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Fabrice Trombert Singer Martha Redbone had a vision: set the poems of William Blake (1757-1827) to music. Redbone grew up on Appalachian folk music and gospel, and both genres ended up om what would become the Martha Redbone Roots Project. Th... more info

Guardian Music — With Lady Gaga and Marina Diamandis both having been chided by their labels about their looks, it's worth remembering a time when women didn't have to be stunning to be successfulIf there were an OMG moment in pop this week, it was this: two successf... more info

Guardian Music — (Interrupto)Jazz composers are always trying to balance premeditation with the quirks of improvisation, but Scottish drummer and composer Tom Bancroft has a unique take on the activity – a mix of musical breadth, surreal humour and devotion to the ... more info

Guardian Music — Far from being just another soul singer, Josephine Oniyama is more Morrissey in Manchester than Dusty in MemphisHometown: Manchester.The lineup: Josephine Oniyama (vocals, music).The background: Josephine Oniyama is not another soul girl, even though... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — I put this mixtape together for my own entertainment towards the end of the last Beady Eye tour. It got a few plays backstage after gigs on the last UK dates, (I remember it being on after a fantastic gig in Blackpool with Hippy Mafia) and then I pas... more info

Guardian Music — Dingwalls, LondonKrystle Warren is a remarkable, if complicated lady. Taking time off from extensive tours with Rufus Wainwright, she is briefly back in the UK to promote what is surely one of the best albums of the year, the ponderously titled Love ... more info

Guardian Music — My husband, Andrew Miller, who has died aged 65 after a short illness, was a music-business promoter and staged many memorable festivals, but his enduring love was for Nordoff Robbins, the music-therapy charity. In 1976, he founded the organisation's... more info

Dlisted — John Malkovich (58) Jesse Metcalfe (33) Imogen Heap (35) Tré Cool (39) Kara DioGuardi (41) Jakob Dylan (42) Felicity Huffman (49) Mario Cantone (52) Donny Osmond (54) Joan Armatrading (61) Michael Nouri (66) Dick Butkus (69) Beau Bridges (70) Dame J... more info