Perez Hilton — Taylor Swift…pop country superstar and…folk singer? Looks like Taylor may be hopping in a Big Yellow Taxi, headed for the silver screen! Reportedly, Swifty is eyeing up the role of Joni Mitchell in the film adaptation of the book, Girls Like Us b... more info

Dlisted — When your stiff-as-a-concrete-erection acting skills in Valentine's Day made Taylor Lautner look like an organic human creature who is capable of producing natural emotions in front of a camera, you should quit the acting shit while you're ... more info

Guardian Music — If you're having doubts about your life, Joni Mitchell's voice might swoop in unbidden, telling you to listen to yourself Carey isn't Joni Mitchell's best song. It isn't even the best on Blue, the album on which it appears (A Case of You is, obviousl... more info

Guardian Music — Stanley Reynolds tries to give modern music a fair hearingFor a whole decade now we have been putting up with the loud and aggressive artistic pretensions of pop music and mainly - and especially if we did not want to seem too outre - we have sat qui... more info

Guardian Music — Three quarters of CSNY are long out of fashion. Don't let that spoil a song that might as well be about your homeGraham Nash apparently sat down at the piano and wrote Our House in just an hour, capturing an unguarded moment of domestic bliss with Jo... more info

Guardian Music — The Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter on her operatic ambitions, her Michael Jackson obsession, and the redemptive power of Nina SimoneMercury-nominated Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan first gained attention in 2002, when she featured on Dami... more info

Popdose — Mere weeks after releasing their A Valentine EP, US Elevator are set to return with a 7″ single for Record Store Day that finds the band covering Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” and Jim Croce’s “Spin, Spin, Spin.” The group, which exis... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz Cafe, LondonPop stars become producers, but producers rarely become pop stars. Mark Ronson, for one, has unintentionally demonstrated the pitfalls awaiting studio wizards who step from behind the mixing console to centre-stage, only to find them... more info

Guardian Music — Music news, reviews and discussion from the last seven daysThe Guardian's first album award goes to: Rustie – Glass Swords Russell "Rustie" Whyte speaks to Tim JonzeListen to Glass Swords in its entiretyFind out who the other nominees wereIn the ne... more info

Guardian Music — Simon Cowell loves her – but don't let that put you off. Emeli's Sande's debut is a good, if incomplete, display of her talentsRecently, there has been much heated discussion about entitlement in pop: the Brit School students fast-tracked into th... more info