Here Comes The Flood — Jinx And The Back Alley Cats: from Fort Wayne, Indiana, are a punk country hardcore acoustic band with whimsical lyrics, which might seem confusing at first, but it's all there on their Fish As Friends album. The wavering vocals in the slower song... more info

Battery In your Leg — After a whole run of posts on new artists, the most interesting things hitting the inbox the last week have all been somewhat retrospective. It was certainly the case with this latest offering from Robyn Hitchcock, another star-studded collaboration... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThis one-off show, co-curated by Squeeze founder Chris Difford, had a weighty title, as if it were attempting to provide a definitive overview of London's musical history to rival Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city. But... more info

I Like Music — UK singer/songwriter/guitarist/painter/actor releases new album Propeller Time on March 22nd 2010 more info

Guardian Music — The capital's soul is harder to pin down than other cities because its musical climate can change between postcodesIf London had the grid system of Manhattan, or had been rebuilt entirely like the Paris of Haussmann, then maybe it would have a readil... more info

Altsounds — Over the past three decades, UK singer / songwriter / guitarist / painter/actor *Robyn Hitchcock* has amassed an extensive and distinguished body of work that has established him as one of rock music's most respected and beloved iconoclasts. A musici... more info

Guardian Music — Weighing up true love against the cold truth of mortality – the amorous and the anatomical – is a surprisingly effective wooing techniqueA friend of mine recently lent me a copy of some collected short stories written by the American wr... more info

Guardian Music — Brighton DomePosthumous leaps in popularity come no more dramatic than that experienced by Nick Drake. During his brief recording career, he would have struggled to draw enough fans to fill the Brighton Dome's gents. Today, demand to hear his music p... more info

NME — Acts come together in aid of Cape Farewell organisation more info

Guardian Music — Bad gal Courtney Love gears up for a one-off appearance with "a modified Hole" (17 Feb, Shepherd's Bush Empire, ticketmaster.co.uk) before the release of upcoming album Nobody's Daughter …More female guitar-slinging can be caught from Queen of ... more info