Guardian Music — The best of your comments on the latest film and musicWas there something in the water last week? Were readers just feeling in a recitative mood? Because a fair number of people seemed inspired to cite lyrics on the comments threads beneath our Beast... more info

Stereogum — Aggronautix, the same company behind the slash nonfiction comix book Henry & Glenn Forever (depicting a loving spousal relationship between Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig), has a series of musician bobbleheads (or “Throbbleheads”) that they add t... more info

Altsounds — *Marianne Faithful *will release her 23rd album, *Horse and High Heels*, in the US on *June 28th *via *Naïve Records*. The collection of songs consists of four originals and eight covers ranging from *Carol King's *“Going BackÂ�... more info

Altsounds — On 14th - 17th July in the sumptuous surrounds of the Suffolk countryside, the welcoming daisy-adorned gates will open for the 6th edition of the magical and fantastical Latitude Festival. With four bespoke arenas dedicated to music, Latitude offe... more info

Guardian Music — Independent record shops are more important than ever. In honour of official Record Store Day, on 16 April, we asked five artists to tell us what their favourite shop means to themIsobel Campbell, singerAmoeba Music 6400 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angele... more info

Guardian Music — Unheralded in their own time, Kyuss inspired a generation of bands in thrall to their downtuned metal. Now, in the form of Kyuss Lives!, they're back. Dorian Lynskey hears their tale'I didn't think that at 40 years of age I would still be talking abo... more info

Guardian Music — Another grunge star has died young. Tim Jonze asks: is it the most lethal genre?The tragic end of Mike Starr, the Alice in Chains bassist who died on Tuesday after a heroin overdose, might look like just another rock death. But for fans of grunge it ... more info

Press Play — I've been listening to a lot of new music this week, some of which I hope to review very soon.  One such album is Hawk by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan.  (Isobel is of Belle & Sebastian fame.)  So far this is one of the catchier albums I've hear... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Whitlo said... Happy New Year Fuzzy On Death Of Hippie we start with Subway a prog-rock duo from 1972 very rare Subway (1972) http://deathofhippie.blogspot.com Record Fiend said... I Turned Into a Helium Balloon (mind-blowing compilation chock full ... more info

Rollo & Grady — Here’s a badass B-side from legend Mark Lanegan. Mark Lanegan – Crawl Like A Dog (Creature With The Atom Brain) more info