Guardian Music — I always considered Gilbert O'Sullivan as a fey songwriter more suited to people like Jerry from the Good Life. Then I heard a song that knocked me sideways …In 1973, Gilbert O'Sullivan was a piano-playing superstar on a par with Elton John. Today,... more info

Gigwise — 'Romantically Yours' is out in November... more info

We Like it Lossless! — Warp Records / 2005The latest in Warp's recent 'suck-it-and-see' release schedule, Grav3nhurst's (aka Nick Talbot) debut LP 'Fires In Different Buildings' has got its sights set firmly on those attractive Mogwai/My Bloody Valentine/Velvet Underground... more info

Altsounds — Upstate NY band Epigene has announced the release of their 3rd album, a brilliant new rock opera called “A Wall Street Odyssey; The City, The Country And Back Again.” Inspired by such landmark albums as The Who's Quadrophenia, The K... more info

Guardian Music — 100 Club, LondonNo one illustrates the way social threats transmute into beloved treasures better than Alice Cooper. Forty years ago, when he began singing of death and obsession, and recreating executions on stage, he was the embodiment of post-hipp... more info

Guardian Music — The Kinks' Ray Davies, New York indie singer Darwin Deez, Metronomy's Joseph Mount and About Group/This Heat drummer Charles Hayward reflect on Glastonbury. And Donovan performs The Music Maker, a song he wrote about the festivalAndy GallagherBen Kap... more info

Guardian Music — 'I worked with Salvador Dalí for four days. He did a sculpture of my brain with a chocolate eclair running down the back'What got you started?I was at that perfect age: I was 15 when the Beatles came out in the US; then the Rolling Stones, the Kinks... more info

Guardian Music — Meltdown festival, LondonA man blessed in many ways, but never with a sunny disposition, it sometimes seems as if Ray Davies spent the entire 60s complaining. The most recurring of his grumbles involved the Kinks's record company. Not only did Pye Re... more info

Guardian Music — Southbank Centre, London"I was on acid when I saw the Kinks for the first time," Ron Sexsmith mutters. Ray Davies – former Kink and current Meltdown curator – slings on a guitar, preparing to accompany the Canadian troubadour on a version of the ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — When you’ve shot your mouth off and claimed that your band is the best in the world, what do you say when that band dissolves and you form a new one?“We’re the second-best band in the world.”So says Liam Gallagher, singer from ’90s Britpop ... more info