Guardian Music — Nicki Minaj finds some venues as big as her personality, Radiohead are back on tour and the last festival of the summer has ways of making you danceFestival No 6This festival is aimed at a punter of a certain age – New Order, Primal Scream and Spir... more info

Guardian Music — He makes music for the head and the hips, but the Texan electronic artist is torn between hedonism and domesticismSomewhere between the Ryanair redeyes, the Class As and the promotional T-shirts from record labels, dance music and style lost each oth... more info

Guardian Music — Birthdays, LondonJunior Boys could be the dictionary definition of a slow-burner. Eight years into their career, the Canadian duo of singer/guitarist Jeremy Greenspan and engineer Matt Didemus last year finally attracted some interest outside of danc... more info

Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectSi Forster blogs about music at 6 Days from Tomorrow.What was the first song you ever bought?Adam and the Ants – Stand and DeliverI bought this from B... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Blur/The Specials/New Order, Hyde Park 8/12/2012 Blur's frontman and driving force, Damon Albarn, had said this might be the band's final performance. But then Albarn has always been a competitive soul, and you wonde... more info

DrownedInSound — So that’s it for the Olympics. In Hyde Park, we get BT London Live's Hyde Park Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert (ahem) with an incongruously brilliant line-up: Blur, The Specials, New Order. Across town, there’s the Spice Girls and Take That.... more info

Guardian Music — London's Hyde Park was packed on Sunday night when Blur headlined a special gig to celebrate the end of the Olympics, with support from the Specials and New Order. Was it Blur's last-ever show? Or just an excuse for one of the best knees-ups of the s... more info

Guardian Music — Hyde Park, LondonThe stated ambition of London 2012 was, of course, to inspire a youthful generation. Tonight's sold-out Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert does inspire a generation, but one that was at university when you still had to queue for pa... more info

Guardian Music — Twice a week we invite independent bloggers to tell us about what they do. Today, a site looking at the best box sets aroundWho are you and what's your blog called?I'm Paul Sinclair and my blog is called SuperDeluxeEdition.Where are you based?London.... more info

Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectClive Lewis writes a blog about electronic music at electronicrumors.com, serving up the best new synthesiser sounds each day. These six songs represent... more info