Guardian Music — Each week we invite someone to share with us some of the songs they've been listening to recently. Today's selection features Stornoway, Radiohead, Laura Marling and the xxThis week's playlist is from Ava Lockyear, who spent two weeks at the Guardian... more info

Dlisted — Who knew that Rob Gronkowski is a dude of many talents? I mean, he's making an "I'm getting fisted" face WHILE fisting an imaginary b-hole in the air - Just Jared Justin Timberlake is the Suri to Jessica Biel's Katie - Lainey Gossip F... more info

Guardian Music — From Devo to the Zutons, we expose your songs with deep and dark desiresLast week's call for songs about secrets brought forth a host of suggestions of forgotten and obscure music as you opened your closet doors and got the tunes out in the open.Afte... more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Lou Reed has paid tribute to his former Syracuse University professor in a new published poem The former Velvet Underground frontman studied under literary great Delmore Schwartz in the early 1960s and still clearly has a lot of affection for ... more info

melophobe — Sounding very much the illegitimate offspring of Mick Jagger, Foxygen’s Sam France delivers confidently ambiguous vocals, twice his age. Twinkling cymbal, lowly growling horns and declarative piano dance alongside him, making for a spectacular, pre... more info

Bradley's Almanac — In the half-assed juggling act that is my life, the blogging-ball continues to hit the floor. Here's where I pick it up for a second, sharing a trio of cover songs from shows I've seen over the past couple months. Back on April 21st (aka Record Store... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — John Cale has signed to Domino imprint Double Six who will release his new album Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood on October 1. The former Velvet Underground member made the album at his own studio in LA, "experimenting with... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonFor fans of jangly, emotionally acute indie-rock, Big Star are an ur-band, although their third album, variously dubbed Third and Sister Lovers, is apt to separate the mere admirers from the cult devotees. Recorded in chaos, never pro... more info

ContactMusic — A newly-discovered genus of spider has been named after rocker Lou ReedAn international group of biologists recently stumbled across the never-before-seen velvet spiders which live underground and decided to use the former Velvet Underground frontman... more info

DrownedInSound — I'll Be Your Mirror acts as a sister event to the ATP Festivals and is named after the b-side to The Velvet Underground's original All Tomorrow's Parties 7" single. We asked some of the artists performing to tell us their favourite b-sides and 7" sin... more info