Altsounds — _*MORE FROM BEASTIE BOYS, RYAN ADAMS and*_ _*SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS*_ _*AND EVEN MORE FROM THE YARDBIRDS, THE BYRDS AND*_ _*THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL*_ When the best bands in rock history send a nod to the indie music stores, how much better can ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Record Store Day comes twice a year. On Black Friday (11/25), hit your favorite indie store and get your hands on exclusive vinyl and what-not. Back-Wash Rhythm Band – The Golden Breed Soundtrack (Vinyl) Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee P... more info

Guardian Music — This pop-rock clan bring to mind Fleetwood Mac – but without the romantic distress and narcotic excessHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Sebastian Keefe, Joseph Keefe, Christina Schroeter and James Buckey.The background: Here's a nice new pop-rock g... more info

Pop Justice — You know how when you go to a supposed 'pop quiz' the questions always end up being a load of old shit like "what was significant about the second time Ringo Starr ever went to Burgess Hill?" or "who is this a photo of?" and it's always someone out o... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Andy Capper gets spellbound by a song that breaks his heartIf the last album I paid tribute to in the Guardian was the sound of my life running away from a small North West town, then this is the ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The music and mythology of a golden era in the culture of California is explored in this feature-length documentary. At the start of the 1960s Los Angeles was a kooky backwater, barely visible on the musical map. By the end of the 1970s it was the ... more info

Guardian Music — Sometimes you think you know a song – only to hear a version that makes you reconsider everything you previously feltIf you had asked me, just a couple of months ago, what was the definitive version of Carole King's song I Wasn't Born to Follow, I ... more info

Guardian Music — Some will say that REM's breakup is long overdue – but we should remember the great contributions they made to rock musicThere were, predictably, those who observed that REM's split had come a decade and a half too late, that the US rock band shoul... more info

Guardian Music — (Decca)More than the sum of their parts? That's the Jayhawks. Separately, the voices of Mark Olson and Gary Louris tend to be thin; together, their harmonies are as richly American, in their way, as the Beach Boys. Writing together melds Olson's coun... more info

Guardian Music — A study of 1970, filtered through the music of the timeWe live in turbulent times, our distrust of institutions seemingly at a peak. Yet between January 1969 and the spring of 1970, according to the author of Fire and Rain, borrowing figures quoted ... more info