Guardian Music — (Strike Back)Even at the height of Britpop's triumphalism, Dodgy's anthems such as Staying Out for the Summer had a bittersweet undercurrent of melancholy just being held at bay. Their first album since 1996 finds the reunited threesome allowing it t... more info

Guardian Music — Stuck in Lonesome Town? Stranded on the Lost Highway? You're in good company, as our losers playlist showsMusic seems populated by losers. That's the impression you gave last week, when I asked you to nominate your favourite songs about losers. It se... more info

BBC 6 Music — The Lancashire band look back as they prepare to mark their 50th anniversary more info

Popdose — The acclaimed British Invasion DVD series returns with a definitive look at the Hollies, a band that did nothing less than produce hits for more than a decade more info

Guardian Music — This week on the web music roundup, the BBC's extensive coverage of the Reading festival came at the unfortunate expense of the Notting Hill CarnivalIn a UK music scene currently dominated – and enlivened – by urban music, it seems a pity that th... more info

Guardian Music — Hard-boiled record industry executive who managed Michael Jackson in the 1980sMichael Jackson's manager Frank Dileo, who has died aged 63 following complications from heart surgery, was a virtual caricature of the old-school record industry mogul. A ... 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

Guardian Music — 11 March 1970: Number xx in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicThe formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash is headily serendipitous stuff: proof that a supposed musician's nirvana existed in Laurel Canyon, California. Errant Byr... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sometimes in order for rock music to be able to develop further, one needs to revisit the past occasionally, as bands like The Black Crowes and others have demonstrated, and with success. Highway Child sound as if they could have come straight from... more info

Popdose — The What-ing What Project? Never, perhaps, has a figure in rock music been simultaneously so famous and so … anonymous. Alan Parsons, after all, was engineer on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Paul McCartney’s Red Rose Speedway; producer... more info