Guardian Music — In the first of a regular visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – we reprint an interview with the legendary Sly Stone.Earlier this week, it was reported that the funk legend is now... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Today's Live Performance... well, we're being generous again, it's two full live performances actually - blues rock virtuoso Joe Bonamassa's complete show at Rockpalast recorded in 2005, and the second performance was recorded at th... more info

USA Today Music — USA TODAY's music staff offers a weekend tipsheet of sound recommendations. more info

Guardian Music — (ECM) From Norwegian folk singer and harpist Sinikka Langeland comes a seductively subtle contemporary jazz album. The lyrics are all Norwegian or Swedish (the sleeve notes have translations), and celebrate the poetry of Edith Södergran and Olav Hå... more info

Altsounds — Miles Davis. The name alone has become synonymous with jazz music and its place in popular culture, notably the prolific years of 1949-1959, starting with Birth of the Cool. To commemorate these momentous years in jazz and Davis' career, CAMI Musi... more info

Swedesplease — More electronica, this time of the space age variety; trippy and interstellar. What begins with a muted Miles Davis solo quickly becomes a diaspora of synthy beats, weird samples, and otherworldly chants. Here’s “The Icarus Vessel” from the alb... more info

Totally Fuzzy — After three years of playing together, Davis' "second great quintet" had evolved into a tight, athletic and adventurous crew. When the band toured Europe in 1967, it made some music for the ages — and luckily, much of that trip was recorded. R... more info

Guardian Music — Traverse, Edinburgh; Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn Greek the thuggish hero Eddy commits murder, inadvertently sleeps with his mother and gouges his eyes out. When the young Mark-Anthony Turnage wrote his first opera, he spotted early the power of ancie... more info

Guardian Music — A new baby boy and a new project with brass bands have given the Unthanks' Adrian McNally two great reasons to be thankfulHe's the best. A lovely midsummer's baby. Beautiful like his mother, Rachel Unthank. My son was born nine whole pounds exactly... more info

Guardian Music — Wayne Shorter headlines a much-anticipated gig, followed by the London Jazz festival in November, while the blind duo Amadou and Mariam tell their life story – in the darkWayne Shorter Quartet and PhronesisA much-anticipated gig from sax star Short... more info