Popdose — Get ready to buy your third copy of Avalon, and smile while doing so. more info

Guardian Music — On the 40th anniversary of Roxy Music's debut, we reassess their journey, marked out in a new box set, from aural insanity to elegant perfectionism"The Perfect Guitarist" for Avant Rock GroupOriginal, creative, adaptable,melodic, fast, slow, elegant,... more info

Topix — The three-CD A&M 50: The Anniversary Collection highlights some of the best music from the legendary label started by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in a Hollywood garage in 1962. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Roxy Music's The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 - 1982 is a 10-CD box set that includes the band's eight studio albums released in that eleven year period plus two discs of unreleased material. The wave of Frank Zappa reissues... more info

Guardian Music — Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: All the fun of the fairground As a child growing up in the 1950s, I dreamed of living on a fairground as my mother had done. But she was adamant that no child of hers would have such a life. ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Your one way ticket to "Avalon". more info

Guardian Music — They began the year hyped to the rafters and hungry for fame, but are Spector already resigned to failure?You could, if you were so minded, infer a lot from the title of Spector's debut album. The east London quintet began the year on the BBC Sound... more info

Guardian Music — They became a byword for yuppie pop, music as luxury goods – but Roxy Music were always much odder than thatIn a world of lavish, expensive box sets, you might expect Roxy Music's 40th anniversary package to be the most lavish of the lot. But the... more info

Guardian Music — As the Rolling Stones prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first ever gig, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for an interview with Mick Jagger in 1987 by the late Tom Hibbert for Q... more info

Guardian Music — Sounding like so much manna from blog-pop heaven, this Canadian trio suggest a chillwave SadeReading on a mobile? Click here to listenHometown: Toronto, Canada. The lineup: Carmen Elle, Kieran Adams, Joseph Shabason. The background: One of the member... more info