Guardian Music — The Guardian music staff reach for their P45s as a new recruit starts blogging for usEarlier this week, while conducting intensive research out of office hours (read: faffing about on Twitter), guardian.co.uk/music's Tim Jonze spotted a tweet from no... more info

Guardian Music — When the former deputy PM tweeted his approval of singer Rumer last night, we cheekily replied asking if he fancied blogging for us. Here, he praises a singer who set him on a journey down memory laneMusic has always played a big part in my life. Whe... more info

Guardian Music — Another day, another tweet: singer moves to make up with producer after online rant in which she referred to him taking credit for albumThree days after Amy Winehouse told Mark Ronson: "You're dead to me", the singer has moved to patch things up with... more info

Culture Bully — Coverage of Grinderman's performance on the September 21 edition of Later... with Jools Holland. more info

Guardian Music — Amy Winehouse responds angrily to Mark Ronson's seemingly harmless comments in Jools Holland interviewThe Twitter update was written at 5.16am and gave every impression of being pounded out furiously using clenched fists: "ronson you're dead to me; o... more info

Altsounds — The xx were announced last night, Tuesday, 7 September as the winners of the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. The announcement was made by musician and broadcaster Jools Holland at the Awards Show at London's Grosvenor Hous... more info

Stereogum — Boy George and producer/Miike Snow singer Andrew Wyatt joined Mark Ronson on Later… with Jools Holland for their contribution to his guest-filled upcoming lp Record Collection. Ronson also brought along MDNR, who played keyboards and did backing vo... more info

Guardian Music — The singer appears to have lashed out on Twitter after the producer said he 'created' songs on her Back to Black albumAmy Winehouse has allegedly lashed out at Mark Ronson, her former collaborator, telling the producer: "You're dead to me." Perhaps t... more info

Perez Hilton — She was probably sitting behind her computer with a couple bottles of vodka, but whatever! Amy Winehouse used her Twitter account to launch an early morning attack at her former producer, Mark Ronson, after he said he had "created the tracks" on Wino... more info

Guardian Music — Redundancy, resourcefulness and the sound of sneezing have made Aloe Blacc the recession's soul voice of reason. Martin Horsfield buys inSoul music thrives in hard times. After the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the riots that led to a deca... more info