Guardian Music — Flags have been banned from this year's Reading and Leeds festivals, but they're integral to the atmosphereSo, a last-minute ban on flags and large banners has been imposed at the Reading Leeds festivals this weekend. The reason, organisers claim, is... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — TORONTO - Pearl Jam's admiration for Neil Young is well-known and documented, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that their show at Toronto's sold-out Molson Amphitheatre started and ended with covers of Young's hits. more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Neil Young, Jack White • Adam Lambert Contributes 2012 Song • Crooked Vultures Scorch Amsterdam • Meet the Cast of Green Day’s Idiot Musical • Zemeckis Plots Yellow Submarine Remake • Watch Wolfmother’s Exclusive Acoust... more info

Rolling Stone — Neil Young and Joan Baez will both be performing free during the Toronto Film Festival, IndieWire reports. Young will appear after the September 14th North American premiere of The Neil Young Trunk Show. On the 16th, Baez will perform at a showing of... more info

Totally Fuzzy — asgard said...The Beatles Remastered and Reissued http://travellingunderground.blogspot.comThe Rock DoctorDeaf, Dumb, Blind said...Bobby Previte's Empty Suits - Slay the Suitors (1994)DJ Wally - Nothing Stays the Same (2003)http://musistenz.blogspot.... more info

Guardian Music — After the excesses of psychedelia and the ravages of the Vietnam war, Going Up the Country caught the countercultural mood in early 1969 with its yearning for a rural retreatReleased right at the end of 1968, Canned Heat's Going Up the Country went t... more info

Pasta Primavera — Australia’s St Helens and their album Heavy Profession is this weeks rotation highlight.  Jarred Quarrell is a modern friggin’ Lou Reed.  Really.  The music behind him lulls you along like a Neil Young burner, then BLAZOW!  You get po... more info

NME — ''Patience' greatest comeback single in history' says bassist more info

Guardian Music — From Take That to Mozart, musicians draw inspiration from the unlikeliest sources. So who are today's biggest stars secretly hooked on – and why?Speech DebelleYou Can Call Me Al, Paul SimonI first heard this when I was about six. My mum still ... more info

Guardian Music — To police in a New Jersey seaside town, the rock legend Bob Dylan was merely an eccentric pensioner wandering the streets in the pouring rain. According to Dylan himself, he was just "out for a walk". But now there is growing speculation that when th... more info