Here Comes The Flood — Colin Brunton (thelastpogo.net) has posted memorabilia and a short description of the John Cale show at The New Yorker, Toronto, Canada - February 19, 1977. » Live review of The New Yorker show more info

Guardian Music — (Virgin)The covers album has a bad reputation: it is seen as something that gets released in lieu of something else, evidence that a songwriter's creative juices have dried up. In the case of Peter Gabriel, that's a state of affairs compounded by the... more info

Here Comes The Flood — HCTF Poll At the shows John Cale played in Australia in January, he revisited and reworked songs from his back catalog while the unreleased new songs like Hey Ray, (A Day in the life of the) Common Cold and Catastrophic were left on the shelf. On... more info

Altsounds — World-class recording artist Gary Lucas - hailed by Rolling Stone critic David Fricke as "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" - played guitar in Captain Beefheart's Magic Band for five years. He has also worked with Lou Reed, Nic... more info

Guardian Music — For the second in his series of literary, rock'n'roll hijinks, Richard Milward decides that all you need is love. Unless, that is, you're being pinned to the ground by burly hotel staffAfter first nibbling ecstasy at 17, me and my pals made a conscio... more info

MTV.com News — 'Hopefully there will continue to be a lot of different ways that everyone can help,' he says after 'Hope for Haiti Now.'By Maura Johnston Justin Timberlake backstage at the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon Photo: MTV News When Justin Timberl... more info

MTV.com News — Leonard Cohen's 1984 song, covered at the 'Hope for Haiti Now' telethon, has been recorded by nearly 200 performers.By Amy Wilkinson Justin Timberlake at "Hope For Haiti Now" on Friday Photo: Hope For Haiti Now/ Getty With Justin Timberlak... more info

Guardian Music — Last week was all about songs that give you the shivers. This time we want tracks about famous people from the pastThe last week has been a sombre one, unavoidably so. It was touching too though, an example of why RR is a real community and one with ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Watch a clip of John Cale's keynote speech for Circa 1979: Signal to Noise at the Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia - January 15, 2010. Filmed by the Australian Broadcasting corporation The whole speech can be downloaded from their site as MP3 au... more info

Guardian Music — He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading nextWhen influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the 1970s –... more info