Guardian Music — My week of making music with a whole world of musiciansDay 1Walking into the first rehearsal I didn't realise this was really the start of my "favourite week ever'' (which, if my wife asks, was our honeymoon). I managed to miss the train's departure ... more info

Guardian Music — Catch up with the last seven days in the world of musicThis week's most popular stories1. Trolls game Taylor Swift competition in favor of school for the hearing impairedA web-campaign to get Taylor Swift to play at any school in the country has been... more info

Guardian Music — Bernard Sumner and Gillian Gilbert reflect on Joy Division, Peter Hook and 30 years of chaosAt the pavement table of a hotel bar on a sunny Sunday afternoon in London, Bernard Sumner is revisiting the most calamitous concerts of New Order's career i... more info

Guardian Music — The Ritz, ManchesterBy the time the train arrived in Manchester at 5.50pm on Wednesday – a collective of more than 80 musicians on board their own specially chartered vehicle – one anxiety was that the evening's show would be too slick an affair.... more info

ContactMusic — British rocker Bernard Sumner quit singing lessons in the 1980s after his instructor urged him to emulate pop star Tony Hadleys vocals Sumner began his career as the guitarist for Joy Division but he was left to pick up the microphone after the bands... more info

Guardian Music — Proper verses and choruses, and good drama – think Fleetwood Mac gone urban. Radio 2 programmers will be impressedReading this on mobile? Click here to listenHometown: Los Angeles. The lineup: Tim Nordwind (guitar), Drea Smith (vocals).The backgrou... more info

Prefix — Adam Brent Houghtaling, author of This Will End In Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music, reveals ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/features/albert-kuvezin-bis-disc-francis-dunnery-invisible-limites-joy-division-pj-proby-square... more info

Guardian Music — Brooklyn songstress Julianna Barwick updates the medieval art of vocal polyphony with loops on her UK debut (22 Nov, Cafe Oto, N16) …Gallows and Django Django have been confirmed among 80 acts at the SWN festival (18-21 Oct, various Cardiff venues)... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis New Order, 2012 Edition New Order have just announced a Fall tour of North America, including a New York date at Roseland on October 18. No on-sale date has been posted yet, but you can (like we... more info

Popdose — The story of how Joy Division met Mickey Mouse in the greatest trademark case that never was.   Last week’s KI2Y post about the unlawful appropriation of popular songs by politicians produced a flood of email from my thousands of readers around th... more info