ContactMusic — John Peel s private record collection has hit the web The Bbc and the Arts Council have joined forces to create The Space - a new digital service which will allow the public to access John Peels gargantuan collection The site is launched today May 1 ... more info

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Guardian Music — John Peel's album collection goes online, why cake should be banned and a top tip from Prince CharlesDiscs of the dayThe John Peel Centre for Creative Arts has begun posting details of 2,600 albums from his collection online. His widow Sheila talks G... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Starting on Tuesday, the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts will begin uploading details of the late DJ's cherished vinyl, unveiling 2,600 albums over the next six months. Every week, the Centre will expand the scope of its virtual museum,... more info

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