Guardian Music — Randy Newman might be one of the pre-eminent songwriters of his generation, but that hasn't stopped many of his best-known songs from being misunderstoodRandy Newman sits at the piano in the London showroom of Steinway & Sons and absent-mindedly tink... more info

Said the Gramophone — Dave Van Ronk - "Both Sides Now" After reading Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, Joni Mitchell wrote this song that posits love, like a cloud, as an amorphous, inscrutable thing whose shape is constantly shifting along with our perception... more info

Guardian Music — Who is she?Valentina Pappalardo, 26, an Italian-born singer songwriter who moved to Salisbury as a child and now lives in London. Raised on songwriters such as Joni Mitchell and Carole King, she was inspired to learn the guitar and the dulcimer.So he... more info

Guardian Music — Captain's Rest, GlasgowThe UK is slowly figuring out what northern Europe has known for a while – that Copenhagen-born, Berlin-based classically trained pianist and singer Agnes Obel is a master of her craft with a bright future ahead of her. Obel'... more info

Guardian Music — Summoning the spirit of 1986, these retro-pop miserablists specialise in winsome techno and wan electro-popHometown: Stockton, California.The lineup: Justin Vallesteros, Frankie Soto, Jack Doyle Smith, Anna Luxx Ryon. The background: Some years are s... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ekko said... The latest mixtapes from Big K.R.I.T., Pusha T (of Clipse) and Xaphoon Jones (of Chiddy Bang) http://www.berkeleyplaceblog.com Levin said... Dave Edmunds - The Early Edmunds CD1 (1991) Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (1973)FLAC Miklós ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Levin said... Larry Miller - A Man On A Mission (1991) Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming (2001)FLAC Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)FLAC Barbra Streisand - Love Songs (1981) Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union (1992) Las Ketchup - Un B... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Kevin said... The latest edition of I Hear a New World is available for download here, and at http://ihearanewworld.podomatic.com. This edition of I Hear a New World focuses on stacks of wax that I have recently acquired from the fantastic record st... more info

Guardian Music — (Cooking Vinyl)Feted by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen to KD Lang, Ron Sexsmith's vast acclaim has never really translated into success. In a sense, he's a man out of time, a songwriter whose perfectly crafted material would have sold b... more info

Guardian Music — "There is something startling to the way Joni Mitchell writes – there is a keenness and a candour, a cool, crisp clarity to her lyrics"I've spent the last week or so fairly bewitched by James Blake's cover of Joni Mitchell's A Case of You: playing... more info