Guardian Music — From Tuesday, music fans will be able to sift through the late DJ's vast archive as part of an expanding virtual museumJohn Peel's record collection is about to go online. Starting on Tuesday, the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts will begin uploadi... more info

The Independent — It is a record collection that any vinyl enthusiast would covet. From obscure German techno to Appalachian folk music, to the latest sounds in the rock and pop world; the thousands of carefully catalogued albums owned by the late DJ John Peel literal... more info

Guardian Music — Julie Murphy is perhaps the most unsung figure in British folk. So join her for a performance of her new album, live from her own living room, at 8.30pm tonightIt's perhaps ironic that one of the finest singers to emerge from Wales in recent years is... more info

Guardian Music — Forum, LondonYou know you're not at the average charity rock concert when you hear "This one's called Mauled ... to ... Fucking ... DEATH!" as a song introduction. And so it was at Boltfest, an event that death-metal veterans and John Peel favourit... more info

Guardian Music — Coldcut's remix of this rap classic delivered exactly what its intro promised – a journey into soundThe late John Peel is rightly hailed for his services to pallid young men clutching guitars: truly, he was the patent saint of indie. What sometimes... more info

Guardian Music — A group biography of independent labelsBack when I should have been studying for my O-levels, I, like a lot of earnest teenagers and bedroom bards in the 1980s, spent much of my free time writing and assembling badly photocopied fanzines. They had La... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — British artist Sir Peter Blake has recreated the iconic album sleeve for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on his 80th birthday."It's a cross I bear, it's an albatross I have to deal with," he says.It is a fairly stark, somewhat surpr... more info

Guardian Music — Run by mavericks with little or no business sense, independent record labels turned the music industry on its head in the 80s. And their sound and aesthetic remains a huge influence to this dayWhen Johnny Marr and Morrissey met for the second time in... more info

Guardian Music — The Duchess, YorkPop is reinventing so many old sounds that it was only a matter of time before groups got round to what John Peel called the "shambling bands" – a strand of 1980s indie indebted to the Velvet Underground and Orange Juice. Veronica ... more info

Guardian Music — 10cc's blend of musical invention and lyrical wit brought pop perfection to the mid-70s charts Few bands survive for long with four equally strong songwriters, so it was inevitable 10cc would implode one day. But in the mid-1970s they brought musical... more info