Brooklyn Vegan — Bob Dylan will release his 35th studio album, Tempest, this year on September 11 on his label home of 50 years (!) Columbia Records. He produced the album himself under his producer pseudonym Jack Frost, which he's used on... more info

Guardian Music — Let It Shine | BBC Proms 2012 | New Tricks | Mark Knopfler: A Life In Songs | Awake | The Angelos Epithemiou ShowLet It Shine6pm, DisneyIn this teen update of Cyrano de Bergerac, our young hero Cyrus DeBarge is told by his religious father that "... more info

Guardian Music — Adele wins two prizes at songwriting awards, while Harvey's Let England Shake and Sheeran's The A Team are also honouredPJ Harvey and Ed Sheeran threw spikes under the Adele steamroller on Thursday when Let England Shake was named album of the year a... more info

Guardian Music — Does the success of Trent Reznor, Clint Mansell and Mark Mothersbaugh suggest that the days of the orchestral soundtrack are numbered?Two words said it all. Moments after winning a Golden Globe for his score for The Social Network last year, Nine Inc... more info

Guardian Music — This was never going to be a year to branch out. These days the record industry's shindig has an eye for commercial successEarlier this week, a blog called Yes It's Number One spotted that an enterprising soul had uploaded the 1989 Brit Awards in the... more info

Guardian Music — The music-loving world, temperamentally, seems to divide neatly into two. There are those who spend their idle hours thinking about which songs they would like to have played at their wedding; and those who spend their idle hours thinking about which... more info

Guardian Music — Arena, ManchesterQuite why the former Dire Straits frontman and the 20th century pop colossus who only last week added runner-up in the Nobel prize for literature to his accolades are touring together is, at first glance, a mystery.But their collabo... more info

Guardian Music — For years the 80s star has remained resolutely uncool, but Bob Dylan doesn't seem to agreeChances are, if you're over 35, you were responsible for one of the 30m worldwide sales of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms. It's the fifth best-selling album in ... more info

Guardian Music — Singer supplies plenty of big hits and spectacle, but the more relentless the raunch, the less interesting her music becomesAs the crowd assembles at the O2, you don't have to look far for evidence that Rihanna long ago turned from an R&B star into a... more info

Popdose — I knocked around the fringes of academia for years, but it’s just as well that I never became a teacher — because there’s nothing I find more irritating than a C+ paper from an A student. And that’s what On Every Street is, for the most part.... more info