Guardian Music — Not many people can say they struck awe into Jimi Hendrix. But Buddy Guy can Reading this on mobile? Listen hereEvery famous musician over a certain age has a tale about meeting Jimi Hendrix, seeing him play for the first time and being profoundly in... more info

Guardian Music — How David Bowie's 1972 television performance of Starman altered pop for everNear the end of When Ziggy Played Guitar, GQ editor Dylan Jones casually lets slip that he and the subject of his book have met each other "dozens of times". If the revelati... more info

Guardian Music — Heaton Park, ManchesterThe cheer that greets the Stones Roses as they arrive onstage to the opening strains of I Wanna Be Adored is deafening: they haven't done anything yet, and the audience is already behaving as though the gig is a triumph.An impa... more info

Guardian Music — To mark their 50th anniversary, the band asked artist Shephard Fairey to update rock's most famous piece of brandingThe Rolling Stones have unveiled a new logo to mark their 50th anniversary. American artist Shepard Fairey was commissioned for the pr... more info

Guardian Music — Mixing memory and desire with regret, Roy Harper offered a grownup love song about real, complicated livesReading this on mobile? Click here to viewI blame my Dad for the Roy Harper thing. I don't know where it came from – perhaps from one of the r... more info

411 Mania — Did Led Zeppelin purposely leave their faces off the cover of IV? What do the symbols on the cover mean? Is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" a secret nod to LSD? All this and more covered this week in Ask 411 Music! more info

Guardian Music — Danny Boyle's supposedly dangerous playlist is nothing of the sort. It just proves we're a nation of stick-in-the-muds and conformistsSo the Olympics opening ceremony isn't just going to be Teletubbies Land with sheep? Albion will rise, for the Queen... more info

Guardian Music — These Vally girls are building considerable buzz with their cacophonous combo of vocal howl and primitive bashHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Lindsey Troy (voice, guitar), Julie Edwards (drums).The background: We've had boy-girl primal blues-rock d... more info

Here Comes The Flood — A mash-up that doesn't suck. Soundhog has made a heady mixture of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love and The Beatles' Helter Skelter. Play at top volume. more info

ContactMusic — Led Zeppelin rocker Jimmy Page has been left rather hurt after organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games in London failed to invite him to perform at the event this summer 12 - four years after he closed the sporting spectacular in Beijing China The guita... more info