WFMU's Beware of the Blog — It goes without saying that Suicide were immeasurably influential for the worlds of industrial, dance, and electronic music as a broad, brilliant whole. And with that kind of path-paving comes the need from the students of such a singular act... 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

Guardian Music — The London Gay Men's Chorus, Europe's biggest choir of its type, is marking its 21st anniversary with a celebratory concert at London's Southbank Centre – and a mass kiss-inIn a large room in Hampstead town hall, north London, almost 200 men are st... more info

Guardian Music — London Lesbian and Gay Film festivalIt may be something to do with his extraordinary stage moniker – somehow redolent of Goliath and Job – that Bruce Campbell aka Jobriath has maintained a tenuous foothold in pop culture, somehow remaining a name... more info

Guardian Music — Billed as the 'new Bowie', Jobriath exploded onto the glam rock scene in the 1970s – and then disappeared. Marc Almond salutes a personal heroBritain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had ... more info

Guardian Music — David Bowie's androgynous alter ego, now honoured with a blue plaque, shot an electric current through less enlightened timesIn Strange Fascination, his biography of David Bowie, critic David Buckley treats Bowie's performance of Starman on Top of th... more info

Guardian Music — Menace and mystery surround this female Jesus and Mary Chain, whose vocals cut like honey-coated razor bladesHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Tashaki (vocals) and Miyaki (guitars).The background: Today's column is brought to you from a poolside in T... more info

The Telegraph — Singer Marc Almond tells Dominic Cavendish about a collaboration with playwright Mark Ravenhill. more info

ContactMusic — Eighties pop star Marc Almond was left red-faced after heading to see hippy icon Donovan and turning up at a classical concert instead. The Tainted Love hitmaker is a big fan of the Mellow Yellow singer and bought a ticket to see him at London's Roya... more info

Guardian Music — Once the sultan of sleazy synth pop, Marc Almond's new Edinburgh show Ten Plagues examines the Black Death. Gloomy? 'We're all dropping off the end of a conveyor belt,' he saysThirty years ago, Marc Almond was a slightly built man who wore black eye... more info