Guardian Music — Listening to this dance music producer is like tuning into a pirate radio station and hearing the perfect comedown playlistHometown: Croydon.The lineup: Peter O'Grady (music, production).The background: Peter O'Grady is a dance music producer from so... more info

Guardian Music — Apple's automated censoring service confuses the 1950s genre for a racial slur, marking song titles with an asteriskAn automated censoring service has left iTunes embarrassed after it censored "doo wop" to "doo w*p", confusing consumers, including Ra... more info

Guardian Music — New band Patch William were wondering how to market themselves – until Stephen Fry's tweets solved their problemThough Jan Moir may have been disappointed, hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers breathed a sigh of relief as Stephen Fry cha... more info

The Playlist — We haven't discussed "Pirate Radio" much, because... well we haven't. It was once named, "The Boat That Rocked," in the U.K., and there were rumors that the film — which features a very strong cast including; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy... more info

Live Daily — On paper, the mere thought of 68-year-old Bob Dylan [ tickets ] croaking his way through a set of Yule-tide standards could have inspired the brains behind the "Golden Throats," those collections of hilariously bad recordings, to start compiling a ho... more info

Guardian Music — This acoustic Swedish duo have covered Brian Wilson's magnum opus SMiLE with just voice and guitar – and it's breathtakingHometown: London.The lineup: Malin Dahlgren (vocals) and Viktor Naslund (guitar).The background: We were going to do this... more info

Streetkiss Music — Ma première rencontre musicale avec Marie-Flore remonte à peu de temps. Plus précisément à cet été, quand je me suis procuré la version digitale du Cheesecake de Severin ou j'y ai entendu pour la première fois Big Mou... more info

Rawkblog — With a title like California Trail, you’d expect more Beach Boys in Adam and Darcie’s sophomore album, but with autumn in full swing in L.A., I’m glad they went in a less sunny direction. The album has the chilly Pacific Northwest charm of my b... more info

Starpulse — Singer Carnie Wilson has landed her own reality TV show which will chronicle her latest weight battle. The daughter of Beach Boys star Brian Wilson famously underwent gastric bypass surgery[...] Read more! more info

Guardian Music — Their debut album might be a modern classic, but Fleet Foxes need to write radio-friendly anthems if they are to match the success of the 1970s folk rockersCan people be blinded by hype into accepting absolute garbage into the rock'n'roll canon? I re... more info