The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Teardop ExplodesFrom: The Past, Liverpool, United KingdomThe Teardrop Explodes were the original scouseadelic band. without Julian Cope and his band the Coral and The Zutons simply wouldn't have existed. The wierd popmesiter's second, and somewha... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Otto von Ruggins (you may recall him as the keyboard player for the amazing mid-70s occult punk group Kongress or from his TV appearance with Ron Paul in the late 1980s) and intergalactic No Wave druid Von LMO (he was also in Kongress, and is consid... more info

Guardian Music — He made his name as a crooner with the Walker Brothers, then disappeared. Back with a new avant-garde album, Scott Walker says the darkness has always been thereWhatever happened to the great 20th-century crooner Scott Walker? Simple really. He di... more info

Guardian Music — Catch up with the last seven days in the world of musicThis week's most popular stories1. Candle in the Wind tops UK chart of charts – 123 records that sold a million2. One Direction reach No 1 in US singles chart3. No Doubt pull Looking Hot video ... more info

Guardian Music — It was a record so good, so beautiful, that Radio 1 played it twice in a row one Saturday morningReading on mobile? Watch hereIt must have been September 1988 and there I was, 18 years old, home from university buried under the duvet late one weekend... more info

Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to her as part of our Six Songs of Me projectHannah Duncan blogs at From Desk Till Dawn, contributes to independent music sites, and tweeted for the Guardian at Glastonbury 2011. What was the first... more info

Guardian Music — (Rough Trade)Reykjavik's grand new Harpa concert hall is a large, black, architecturally ambitious waterside edifice, a potent symbol of Iceland's economic recovery. After their banks failed in 2008, Icelanders agreed that the men were to blame, and ... more info

Guardian Music — The Electras have got to find themselves some action, a little satisfaction – anyone know a woman who might lend a hand?In his magnificent autobiography, Head-On, Julian Cope recounts one of the arguments that would rend asunder Liverpool's music h... more info

Guardian Music — How to wind up fans of classical music: book Kylie for the ever-less-Promsy Proms In The Park. (8 Sep, Hyde Park, W2). Predictions: a Confide In Me/Nessun Dorma mash-up, plus Hazell Dean and Brother Beyond in an encore of selections from HMS Pinafore... more info

Impose Magazine — Holy cats, Batman! This NYC band is one prolific musical factory (and one of the most dis-associative bands on Thrill Jockey Records). I counted at least nineteen releases dating back to 2003 on a couple discographies I found on-line. Julian Cope re... more info