Guardian Music — This was the week we tried to map out the entire story of contemporary music using nothing but blood, sweat and a fancy interactive gizmoFive things we learned from compiling the history of popular musicThere's a lot to be said for selling your soulT... more info

ContactMusic — Former Spice Girls star Melanie Chisholm is supporting a diabetes campaign in her native Britain to raise help awareness of the condition. The singer is backing Diabetes UK's week-long annual drive, which began on Sunday (12Jun11), to help sufferers,... more info

Guardian Music — August 1992: Number 30 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicFrom Motown to the Spice Girls, the girl group has had its day in every era. But the early 90s were particularly fertile ground for female R&B with TLC, ... more info

Guardian Music — 23 February 1999: Number 40 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicIf hip-hop is the black CNN, then Eminem's debut single was the manifesto for the so-called "white trash" of middle America. Marshall Mathers introd... more info

ContactMusic — Mel C thinks the "Spice babies" would make a Spice Girls reunion difficult. The 37-year-old singer - who was joined in the band by Victoria Beckham, Mel B, Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton - admitted while she would love the five-piece to get together.... more info

ContactMusic — Mel C thinks Victoria Beckham's daughter will be the "best looked-after little girl in the world". The former Spice Girls singer explained her bandmate - who already has three sons, Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, eight, and six-year-old Cruz, with her husband ... more info

Guardian Music — RZA of the pioneering hip-hop collective discusses his directorial debut, playing Glastonbury and the next generation of Wu talentIn 1993, way before most members of current gonzo rap collective Odd Future could even walk, New York City's Wu-Tang Cla... more info

Guardian Music — Now Wave, ManchesterIt's not that DJ/promoters Wesley Killerbee and Jonathan Paul Wickstead don't like old music, but the raison d'être of their Now Wave brand is to showcase only new stuff, which they do at weekly cross-genre club nights and gigs a... more info

Perez Hilton — Oh no! How embarrassing! Twitter seems to have gotten the best of Mel B, as she inadvertantly agreed to another Spice Girls reunion tour when an imposter posing as former bandmate Geri Halliwell suggested that the girls all get together once again! ... more info

Guardian Music — November spawned a monster in the shape of NKOTBSB. But the usual boyband rules apply: cute ones to the front, pleaseIn the late-80s, comic-book writer and artist Chris Warner led a brainstorming session at Dark Horse Comics, the result of which was ... more info