Guardian Music — The New York experimentalist talks about the making of her security-conscious new album, Homeland, and how her husband Lou Reed helped add the finishing touchesOn the album cover, featuring a portrait of herself as her male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot... more info

Guardian Music — Velvet Underground legend infuriates fans with a 'fearless night of non-rock'. Still, at least it wasn't his concert for caninesLou Reed, Laurie Anderson and John Zorn faced a furious crowd on Friday night, playing cacophonous music to a cacophony of... more info

Pitchfork — -- The Quine Tapes is a six-LP live box set that documents the Velvet Underground onstage in 1969. VU super-fan and future Lou Reed guitarist Robert Quine recorded the shows, and the set includes posters, handbills, and rare photos. It's coming soo... more info

Guardian Music — Ziggy Stardust wore nail varnish and platforms, and he changed Gary Kemp's life for ever. The Spandau Ballet guitarist recalls his love affair with glamThe first time I fell in love it was with a man. It happened one Thursday evening in the bedroom... more info

Pitchfork — Glastonbury is still quite possibly the best music festival in the world not only because it attracts the biggest of the big but because the biggest of the big often do things at Glastonbury that they probably won't do anywhere else. Like a surprise ... more info

Guardian Music — As the first cider hangover starts to fade, the Music Weekly team pull themselves together to deliver our second Worthy Farm podcast.We promised you guests last night and we didn't let you down. Tim Jonze met up with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett of... more info

NME - Festivals — We miss U2 Never thought we'd be saying that but there was a Bono-shaped hole on the Pyramid on Friday night and Gorillaz, despite the appearances of Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg and Shaun Ryder and about a million others, failed to really captivate. Floren... more info

Guardian Music — Gorillaz took a big risk standing in for U2 at Glastonbury. And with a set that failed to ignite the crowd in the same way that Blur did last year, it seems the gamble didn't pay offWho: Gorillaz.Where and when: Pyramid stage, Friday 10pm.Dress code:... more info

Reuters — PILTON, England (Reuters) - British band Gorillaz brought Arabic flutes, heavy rap and veteran rocker Lou Reed to the Glastonbury music festival on Friday in an eclectic set played before tens of thousands of revelers. more info

NME — Shaun Ryder, De La Soul, Bobby Womack also guest live more info