Guardian Music — Maddy Costa talks to the composers and musicians taking a genre-bending approach to pop-classical fusionsIn his book The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross suggests: "One possible destination for 21st-century music is a final 'great fusion': intelligent pop ar... more info

Guardian Music — Next week we'll be counting down our top 10 albums of the year … but here's how the rest of our critics' top 50 looksStarting on Monday we'll be counting down Guardian critics' top 10 albums of 2011. To get you in the mood, here's how our writers v... more info

KEXP Seattle — Bon Iver, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Cut Copy, Radiohead, Raphael Saadiq, The Decemberists, Los Amigos Invisibles, Fleet Foxes, Gillian Welch, Femi Kuti, Tinariwen, Daft Punk… you might not believe that this is a list of nominee... more info

Pop Justice — Here is news of the greatest Madonna bootleg since THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzVFcjMji0): Icona Pop have done a version of 'Nights Like This' (a tune about the night they met - v emotional 'n' touching) with bits of Madonna's 'La Isla Bon... more info

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Guardian Music — As the indie rock veterans go on (possibly indefinite) hiatus, tell us what Sonic Youth mean to youSpeaking to Rolling Stone magazine this week, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo revealed the band are "ending for a while". This followed recent news that co-f... more info

Topix — Singer/songwriter Pj Harvey has fought off competition from Radiohead and Paul Simon to land the prestigious Uncut Music Award 2011 for her album Let England Shake. more info

Starpulse — Singer/songwriter PJ Harvey has fought off competition from Radiohead and Paul Simon to land Britain's prestigious Uncut Music Award 2011 for her album Let England Shake. The war-themed record la... more info