Guardian Music — Scratch any literate songwriter – Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey – and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS EliotThe New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wr... more info

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Guardian Music — A Vancounver-based blogger writes about 'a life in love with music'Who are you and what's your blog called?I'm Mikala Taylor and my site's called BackstageRider.Where are you based?Vancouver, Canada but I have a lot of readers in the US and the UK.De... more info

Guardian Music — As pop music hurtles headlong into crowd-pleasing mediocrity, audiences should cherish performers who take a stroppy and contrary standTen days ago a concert-goer at the Cedar Cultural Centre in Minneapolis made the mistake of shouting out a sarcasti... more info

Guardian Music — From the blues to the Beatles, from the Who to Nirvana, the biggest acts in pop have been hugely shaped by gay culture. Why has that spirit now disappeared?Nicky Wire laughs. "I'm not sure where we got the slogan from," he says, of the T-shirt the M... more info

Guardian Music — Before Simple Minds went stadium rock, they made 'serious, dark music' that influenced the Manics and Primal Scream. Now they're returning to their rootsA couple of years ago a young, anonymous musician approached Jim Kerr in a Glasgow rehearsal stud... more info

ContactMusic — The sister of vanished Manic Street Preachers rocker Richey Edwards is backing a change in the U K law to allow families of missing persons to access their finances A new report recommends a single certificate declaring someone presumed dead should b... more info

Guardian Music — One of the most authentic and important artists of modern Britain opens at the Hayward, while Donatello's awe-inspiring power of illusion is unleashed at the V&A – all in your weekly roundupExhibition of the Week: Jeremy DellerArt is alchemy. Who c... more info

ContactMusic — Nicky Wire is a huge fan of John Lydons lyrics The Manic Street Preachers bass player counts the lyrics of the Sex Pistols God Save the Queen as his favourite and loves the venom and message the young singer - then called Johnny Rotten - put int... more info

Guardian Music — Fighting off stiff competition from the likes of Anna Calvi and James Blake, Russell "Rustie" Whyte walked away with the Guardian first album award this week for his album Glass Swords. We hear from the man himself, plus judges Nicky Wire from the Ma... more info