Mercury News, California — Richie Havens, who sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, has died at 72. more info

The Independent — US folk musician Richie Havens has died at the age of 72, his talent agency said today.      more info

USA Today Music — The folk singer, who came to fame after his 1969 performance, suffered a heart attack. more info

Impose Magazine — It's never a good day when you have to write two obituaries within eight hours of each other. Richie Havens, legendary songwriter, folk singer, and opener of the very first Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, has passed away at 72. The man was a le... more info

Guardian Music — 'Jimi Hendrix was meant to play at midnight: we didn't get on until 8.30am. We shared a bottle of Blue Nun beforehand'Michael Lang, organiser I'd done a festival in Miami the year before, called Miami Pop. I was astounded by the effect of gathering a... more info

Guardian Music — Nine sunny songs to get you through a grey dayEach week, we invite someone to share a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. Rose Clark is a history of art and english graduate who lives and works near London. Follow her on Twitter. T... more info

Guardian Music — A long-awaited album and tour by Ladyhawke, Plan B does the riots and Frank Ocean's biggest test so farLadyhawkeAnxiety – the second album by this self-styled "pop superwoman creating radio-friendly songs with a single bound", aka New Zealand sin... more info

Guardian Music — This week's news in the artsIn 1970, rock critic Lester Bangs wrote a review of the Stooges' album Fun House in which he spent the first 6,000 words musing on the divide between artist and fan. The only real way of judging an artist's worth, he decid... more info

Guardian Music — Bono and U2 in the firing line over alleged tax avoidance as Glastonbury festival aims to return to its radical rootsThe last time U2 played Glastonbury a low-flying aircraft towed an anti-CND banner past the newly-erected pyramid stage. It was 1982,... more info

Guardian Music — Family car journeys are where musical seeds are sown. We revelled in the Gnu Song, the Bee Song and Bernard Cribbins's Right Said FredMy parents headed back to Lancashire after the Easter weekend, and as they left I gave them a pile of records for th... more info