Totally Fuzzy — YankeeBoy said... Holiday Blahs Adrian Lloyd - Got A Little Woman Flop - I Told A Lie Bobby Womack - All Along The Watchtower The Cowsills - In Need of a Friend The Royal Jokers - You Tickle Me Baby The Split Ends - Rich With Nothing Buddy Covelle - ... more info

Guardian Music — They are a raw and raucous Nashville-based band who embrace the rock lifestyle, with a leader whose father was a preacher. Remind you of anyone? Chris Salmon meets MonaIt takes a certain kind of up-and-coming musician to sit in a west London hotel on... more info

Guardian Music — The stops have been pulled out for festive editions of Uncut, Mojo and Wire. Elsewhere, Brian Eno is messing with the concept of identityThe coming together of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the signing of the Yalta conference has long been viewe... more info

Totally Fuzzy — FourSteps said... TRY TO BE AMUSED has an unexpected double-feature. Our first post is an Art Garfunkel compilation based on his own choices for his best songs from his solo career. In memory of Don Van Vliet, an additional post has been scheduled fo... more info

Guardian Music — Over the past couple of years, blog bands used have faded polaroids to create their own aesthetic. Now major label acts such as the Vaccines and Kings of Leon are copying their styleIf you visited any music blog this year, you won't have failed to no... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Arcade Fire’s “Month Of May” wasn’t too popular with a lot of people at first. I don’t know how you guys feel about it now, but it’s grown on me a lot. Hearing it live at MSG helped, that’s for sure. I just watch the bands performance a... more info

All About Jazz — The 9th edition of the Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival will occupy multiple days on Dubai's calendar of entertainment and fun starting February 1st, 2011 till the 18th of the same month, hosting 37 international bands, several venues and s... more info

Altsounds — On the back of her highly applauded performance on the legendary TV show* 'Later.. with Jools Holland'*, the amazing 'Do it Like a Dude' video becoming an internet phenomenon receiving a staggering* 2 million* YouTube views in just one week and her d... more info

Guardian Music — (Atlantic)His father, according to Francis's website, is the "eccentric owner of one of the largest collections of sheet music in the US", while his mother grew up one of nine sisters in a tiny, poor Mexican town. Ry Cooder gave him his first guitar ... more info

Guardian Music — Touted as the future of rock, the Vaccines are playing pub backrooms and ignoring the hype. Will they survive when reality bites?Six weeks or so ago the Vaccines played their first London gig. The 300-strong audience included Alex Kapranos of Franz ... more info