Here Comes The Flood — Bert Jansch,, eminent UK folk musician, is dead at 67. He died in a hospice in Hampstead after a long battle with cancer. He was a founding member of Pertangle, an influential folk band. His best known song is Blackwaterside, which was plagiarized ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Bert Jansch dies of cancer at 67. British folk guitarist Jansch influenced musicians from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Donovan, Paul Simon to contemporary players such as Devendra Banhart. more info

Guardian Music — Bob Gruen is one of the most famous rock photographers, and here is a selection of images from his book, Rock Seen, newly published with an introduction by Debbie Harry by Abrams more info

Guardian Music — Innovative and influential folk musician and founder member of the groundbreaking band PentangleOf all the guitarists to emerge from the early days of the British folk music revival, it was Bert Jansch, who has died aged 67, who had the most sustaine... more info

Mercury News, California — The 11th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival opened in triumphant fashion on Friday.Highlights from Day One included Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant performing with his talented Band of Joy, gifted lyricist John Prine crooning from his A-plus ... more info

ContactMusic — Rock legend Robert Plant has found a new singing partner in British tenor Alfie Boe The odd couple has recorded a version of Tim Buckleys Song To A Siren and now the former Led Zeppelin frontman who recorded hit 2007 album Raising Sand with country s... more info

Guardian Music — The author of Rock & Roll Hotels, a new guidebook that lifts the lid on what rock stars get up to after the after-party, on the most rock'n'roll hotel of them all, Chateau Marmont in HollywoodA night at the infamous Chateau Marmont, which rises abov... more info

Guardian Music — Castaway Chris Salmon loses himself in the BBC's vast Desert Island Discs archiveThere was a splash of publicity earlier this year when it was revealed that the BBC was to create a full Desert Island Discs archive on its website. A few months on, it... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, David Shariatmadari gets transformed by the music of Lou ReedIf these pages are anything to go by, 16 is an age when people are particularly susceptible to powerful musical experiences. The beauty... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Excellent BBC Documentary in which Robert Plant talks about growing up in the black country, life in Led Zeppelin and his solo career. As one of the greatest vocalists of rock, he explains how it was for him to break out of the rock-god cliché an... more info