Guardian Music — Tastefully arranged acoustic singer who, at 19, actually seems ready to live up to her 'internet sensation' hypeWho is she?A 19-year-old "internet sensation", according to the PR blurb.What? Does she make videos of dancing kittens or something?No, sh... more info

Nialler9 — A music video for Blakey's Joni Mitchell cover from Enough Thunder EP. It is the best track on the EP. The video stars actress Rebecca Hall.... more info

Stereogum — The entire video for James Blake’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” consists of the actress Rebecca Hall, who played Ben Affleck’s Stockholm Syndrome girlfriend in The Town, running through various different emotional states in the ... more info

Guardian Music — At 21, Laura Marling has won a Brit and twice been shortlisted for the Mercury prize. Buy the Observer on Sunday for a free album by the folk sensation comprising studio tracks and live materialIn September, Laura Marling released her brilliant third... more info

Guardian Music — Abbey Road Studios has started its own talent competition – and it beats the heck out of the X Factor, reckons Chris SalmonEarly in 2011, Abbey Road Studios launched a contest for unsigned composers as part its 80th anniversary celebrations. Entran... more info

ContactMusic — Moviemaker Cameron Crowe boasts an impressive collection of signed set lists from artists like Pearl Jam Joni Mitchell and U2 The director who started his career as a young Rolling Stone reporter has his prized collection hanging in his bathroom and ... more info

Guardian Music — These three Laura Marling-alikes can reduce an audience to awed silence. But that won't stop us from comparing them to Azealia Banks ...Hometown: Watford.The lineup: Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor.The background: On Sunday night we went t... more info

Dlisted — Judy Tenuta (55) Mark Philippoussis (35) Melyssa Ford (35) Yunjin Kim (38) Jason London (39) Jeremy London (39) Morgan Spurlock (41) Michelle Clunie (42) David Guetta (44) Sharleen Spiteri (44) Christopher Knight (54) Joni Mitchell (68) Barry Newman ... more info

Guardian Music — (Fuzzy Moon)Mike Gibbs is among the finest living masters of the jazz orchestra, and Norma Winstone the singer who has inspired a whole generation of European jazz vocalists. Given a free hand with Germany's NDR Big Band, they have come up with a tru... more info

Guardian Music — FATM's popularity reveals how the liberal middle classes have abandoned true counterculture for escapist vintage chicThe music world is buzzing with excitement this week. Against a backdrop of seemingly immovable industry pessimism, the release of th... more info