Here Comes The Flood — Watch punk-blues one-man-band. Chicken Diamond cover The Velvets' Sister Ray. Recorded live @ Mécanique Ondulatoire in Paris, France - 2013/02/25. Live dates: 03/02 Besançon, France @ La Rodia 03/24 Strasbourg, France @ Mudd Club 04/27 Sa... more info

Guardian Music — Readers give their opinion on the legendary albumThe Velvet Underground & Nico is, it's fairly uncontroversial to say, an iconic album – thanks in large part to the Andy Warhol–designed sleeve, and the soundbite-friendly claim that it "only sold ... more info

Guardian Music — Jude Rogers salutes a film charting the struggle of indie record shops and their unsung ownersThe British independent record shop hasn't had the rosiest time recently. More than 500 of them have closed in recent years, their racks emptied of glossy s... more info

Guardian Music — The reissue of Sleep's Dopesmoker shows musicians with the nerve to really stretch a song and take listeners on a journeyThe three-minute pop song is an undeniable design classic: short enough to fit on one side of a 7in, long enough to turn a repeat... more info

Guardian Music — Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Michael Hann hails a proto-punk classicIt starts with the name: the Modern Lovers. I can't think of a more per... more info

Guardian Music — In honour of Record Store Day, pop writer and mega-KLF fan Peter Robinson talks us through his top 10 places to buy musicWoolworths, East Grinstead (now closed)Their music section was huge, or seemed so when I was about 11, and the centrepiece was a ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Tam Borman said... Bedreigde Stad Mix Tracklist: Louis de Meester : Muziek bij een gedicht van Paul Van Ostaijen "Bedreigde Stad" voor declamator en geluidsband. Ennio Morricone : Esplicitamente Sospeso Sten Hanson : Lettre d'un étranger Thomas Leer... more info

Altsounds — BBC 6 Music Radio has posted an exclusive 15-minute podcast with Lou Reed, who talks extensively about the forthcoming digitally re-mastered release of his seminal 1975 album “Metal Machine Music”. Digitally re-mastered by Reed, ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Beehive Candy said... Leo Sayer - Live In Boston 1975 Full Concert - FM Stereo mp3@192kbps. http://beehivecandy.blogspot.com Oracle said... Portal of Groove just posted: Enoch Light - Provocative Percussion Volume 3 Command Records RS 821 SD Stereo... more info

Guardian Music — On Saturday hundreds of music fans set out to celebrate the act of buying records. What were your best vinyl finds?Did you participate in Record Store Day? Did you lay your hands on the Blur single? I was too late, despite getting to Rough Trade East... more info