Guardian Music — During Monday's Republican debate in New Hampshire, CNN's John King broke from serious policy discussion to ask candidates 'this or that?' preferences, posing to Michele Bachmann which she preferred: Elvis Presley or Johnny Cash. (Unlike her, you can... more info

Guardian Music — December 1956: Number 3 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicCarl Perkins was already scheduled to be recording in Sun Studios in Memphis on Tuesday 4 December 1956, with Jerry Lee Lewis. But it was chance that brought Elvis... more info

Impose Magazine — Long ago, Impose covered a freak-folk Sacramento band called Appetite. So long ago, songs with jokes about hipsters were still kinda rad. Teddy Briggs, the brainchild behind Appetite has abandoned those goofball musings for maturer high ground. But b... more info

Guardian Music — Ian Sansom on the country music giants and their offspringHe was a self-made man, born into a poor sharecropping family in Arkansas in 1932. According to his biographer, Steve Turner, he became "a friend and an inspiration to prisoners and presidents... more info

The Telegraph — John Carter Cash remembers playing with his father, Johnny, in 2003 more info

Twangville — Is there a better way to start the week than with some vintage Johnny Cash? Me thinks not. more info

Guardian Music — Neil Strauss is in his element meeting the stars of LA's sleazy netherworld, but there are poignant encounters with the less famous tooFans of the antics of tattooed rock pigs will know Neil Strauss as the credited ghost-writer of autobiographies of ... more info

NME — Nick Brown also sees Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan as 'competition' more info

Totally Fuzzy — If a reputable metal label like Century Media all of a sudden releases a Country album you already smell there must be something funny about it... and funny he sure is. But let that not distract you from the quality of the music. It's the Charlie Da... more info

Guardian Music — The best of your comments on the latest films and musicProof that neither film nor music are the preserve of the young came from readers' responses last week to three pieces that celebrated the work of two dead musicians and one elderly film director... more info