Guardian Music — And as well as Ms. Cole and old, everyone from Kiss to Psy rocked the world this week ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Alex de Torres Soulful blues rock is a tricky genre. It can be downright cheesy if you are not careful, but London quartet Cherry White have scucessfully evaded all the pitfalls and dead ends. It all began when guitarist Russell Jones and Cha... more info

Guardian Music — In the week that National Poetry Day adopted stars as its motif, we look at the stars of the poetry and music worlds.The week began with Jorie Graham becoming the first American woman to win the prestigious Forward prize for the year's best collectio... more info

Guardian Music — Catch up with the last seven days in the world of music50 years of The BeatlesLove Me Do: the Beatles' first hit is 50Hunter Davies gets up on the roof to mark the global resurgence of Beatlemania Philip Norman on how the Beatles' Love Me Do began th... more info

Guardian Music — In this extract from his new autobiography, the singer recalls how he came to write his protest anthem Ohio, to commemorate four Kent State University students killed in 1970One night in San Francisco in the fall of 1969, CSNY was recording the DéjÃ... more info

Guardian Music — German electronica pioneers would be the first all-synth group to join the Hall of Fame if inducted in 2013The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could next year be joined by the most un-rock'n'roll group to be commemorated in the Cleveland museum. Among the... more info

Prefix — Mumford & Sons must be having a great couple of weeks as their latest album Babel continues to shatter sales ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/watch-mumford-sons-cover-neil-youngs-dance-dance-d/70108/ more info

Guardian Music — Keith Carradine reads from Neil Young's book, telling the story of the recording of the classic OhioRanjit Dhaliwal more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We always thought the Lannisters would be Romney supporters... Nerds for Obama! Neil Young , who is now on Twitter and recently played Central Park, thinks MP3s sound like shit and is creating a new 24-bit digital audio service called... more info

Guardian Music — We've got a Neil Young bonanza on Friday, when we'll be bringing you an exclusive extract from his autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, and a rare interview with the man himself. To get in the mood, we head to Rock's Backpages for this 1975 interview fr... more info