Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Alan McGee presented the Welsh premiere of 'Upside Down: The Creation Records Story' in Cardiff last night and followed it with a Q&A session. I was invited down and I'm glad to report that the film was informative and slick with a number of genuine... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Norman Blake is a well-known name to people who love their power pop. As a founding member of Teenage Fanclub, he’s spent more than the 20 years creating a body of work as catchy as it is gorgeous. Recently, Blake teamed up with former Gorky’s Zy... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Scots music legend Alan McGee has revealed he almost didn't sign supergroup Oasis because he thought Liam Gallagher looked too dodgy.East Kilbride-born McGee famously discovered the band after seeing them play an unbilled set at legendary Glasgow ven... more info

Guardian Music — (Domino)Chicago's Smith Westerns started in thrall to compilations of 60s garage rock, such as Nuggets, before their listening habits moved on a few years – to David Bowie when he was still wearing makeup, Marc Bolan in silver lamé and the like. T... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Whatever it is about Scotland that makes its songwriters singularly smart devotees of pop music, it has continued unabated for some time. Alongside the power-pop titans of Teenage Fanclub and twee-minstrels of Belle and Sebastian stands Roddy Frame, ... more info

Guardian Music — YouTube is already fundamental to online music, but now it's expanding its official content and moving into live streamingAt last year's BT Digital Music Awards, YouTube beat Spotify, Last.fm, MySpace, SoundCloud and BBC 6 Music to the publicly-voted... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Oasis, Primal Scream, Super Furry Animals and The Jesus And Mary Chain are among the bands who feature on the soundtrack album of Creation Records documenrtary Upside Down.The film features features new interviews with label founder Alan McGee, Noel ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Panda Bear - Tomboy: full album stream Four years after the awesome Person Pitch, Animal Collective's Noah Lennox unleashes more psychedelic sounds Panda Bear - Tomboy by In House Press Tomboy is the fourth album from Panda Bear, aka Animal Col... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Jonny - Free EP (Zip) The harmony-laden indie rock Reese's cup that is Jonny -- Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake + former Gorkys Zygotic Mynci singer Euros Childs -- will be touring this summer in support of their... more info

Guardian Music — Guardian music writer Paul Lester is on the verge of writing his 1000th New Band profile for the music site. That's a lot of new bands to write about. He joins Alexis Petridis and Tim Jonze to run through the highs and lows of a weekly series that's ... more info