Totally Fuzzy — Okkervil River's last proper album, 2008's The Stand Ins, was nothing if not approachable. Top to bottom, the record was packed with sunny melodies, strummy riffs and shout-along refrains that anyone could sing. (To drive the point home, the band r... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offCharlie Haden Quartet West Sophisticated Ladies The great American bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden, a key figure in Ornette Coleman's free-jazz revolution of the 50s an... more info

Guardian Music — A distinctive American singer-songwriter, her stardom was fleetingThe New Rolling Stone Record Guide described the singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow, who has died aged 60 from complications following a brain haemorrhage, as "one of the most gifted voice... more info

Guardian Music — Singer, guitarist and songwriter best known for 1970s hit Poetry Man dies of complications from stroke in 2010Phoebe Snow, a bluesy singer, guitarist and songwriter who had a defining hit of the 1970s with Poetry Man but then largely dropped out of t... more info

Guardian Music — Digital, BrightonOutside, at the end of a sizzling April day, the horizon has vanished – the sea is exactly the same deep ozone blue as the sky. Inside this sweltering, sold-out beachfront venue, Metronomy are playing their lustrous new album, one ... more info

Guardian Music — XOYO, LondonHe has just had a top 5 hit with Traktor, and his new single, the Stone Roses-sampling Unorthodox, is No 2 in the iTunes chart. So it is not surprising that when Wretch 32 – aka Jermaine Scott – bounds on stage to a surging, anthemic ... more info

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Guardian Music — Summoning the spirit of 1986, these retro-pop miserablists specialise in winsome techno and wan electro-popHometown: Stockton, California.The lineup: Justin Vallesteros, Frankie Soto, Jack Doyle Smith, Anna Luxx Ryon. The background: Some years are s... more info

Guardian Music — (Because)Metronomy leader Joe Mount rather grandly "splits his time between London and Paris" these days, but it's Totnes, Devon – his hometown – that's been on his mind lately. The album's title and its music are a homage to Mount's native sout... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ekko said... The latest mixtapes from Big K.R.I.T., Pusha T (of Clipse) and Xaphoon Jones (of Chiddy Bang) http://www.berkeleyplaceblog.com Levin said... Dave Edmunds - The Early Edmunds CD1 (1991) Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (1973)FLAC Miklós ... more info