Topix — I often have trouble with tribute concerts, concerts where a collection of performers gather to perform the music of one specific musician. It's been my experience people far too often get caught up in the event and the iconography of the person bein... more info

Guardian Music — Startup is working with musicians to provide voice narration and music for young tablet usersMusic apps and children's apps are two of the most creative and innovative categories in modern-day app stores, but also two of the hardest to make money fro... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The new Sonny & the Sunsets record is a country record. It’s a break up record. Love and Heartache. Every song was written during and is about his break up with his girlfriend of ten years. Smith grew up listening to old time music, his dad is a ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Four Johnny Cash greatest hits collections are in stores this week (The Greatest: Country Classics The Greatest: Duets, The Greatest: Gospel Songs, The Greatest: The Number Ones) along with the We Walk The Line: A Celebration Of The Music... more info

Guardian Music — Joy Orbison, LondonPeter O'Grady, the DJ and producer with arguably the dance world's best pseudonym, is someone having the best of both worlds. He's reassuringly underground (he says his influences include GG Allin and Martin Hannett) and he hasn't ... more info

Guardian Music — Arianne Phillips has been designing for the pop star for 15 years. Now she is helping her launch a shoe collectionFootwear, it seems, is close to the heart of the Ciccones: both Madonna and her brother Christopher announced shoe collections last week... more info

Guardian Music — The 'Queen of Country Music' in the postwar era, she sang It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk AngelsKitty Wells, who has died aged 92, made a place for the female country singer in the postwar era, opening doors through which would follow Loretta Lynn,... more info

Guardian Music — Nashville is the capital of country music, but where have all the cowboys gone? Emma John goes in search of authenticityI had been warned about Nashville. To any country-music lover, it's the ultimate place of pilgrimage: a star-making factory, respo... more info

Cross Rhythms — Two 1960 albums by Johnny Cash re-issued more info

ContactMusic — Johnny Cashs longtime sidekick Bill Miller is launching a shrine to the late country music legend after filling a former upholstery factory with memorabilia and keepsakes from the Man in Blacks life Millers Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville Tennessee w... more info