Guardian Music — The Beatles spawned a legion of US copyists and chancers. Here's one that got the recipe gloriously right …While Beatlemania in Britain was confined to mooning over record sleeves and screaming until you wet yourself (mostly girls), or buying guita... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Andrew Pulver explains how he fell for the dark charms of a figure who used to be a joke to himI'd be lying if I said Leonard Cohen's records soundtracked my adolescence, or comforted me during st... more info

Guardian Music — Their home was the centre of mod and Oi!, but east London's Wasted Youth chose a darker path Released in 1980, when being influenced by the Velvet Underground seemed breathtakingly original and exciting, Wasted Youth's debut single scaled the dizzy h... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Malcolm Jack writes about an album that will always feel like homeAppropriately enough for a band whose sheer bookishness winds people up, me and Belle and Sebastian got off on the wrong foot. In ... more info

Guardian Music — Menace and mystery surround this female Jesus and Mary Chain, whose vocals cut like honey-coated razor bladesHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Tashaki (vocals) and Miyaki (guitars).The background: Today's column is brought to you from a poolside in T... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, David Shariatmadari gets transformed by the music of Lou ReedIf these pages are anything to go by, 16 is an age when people are particularly susceptible to powerful musical experiences. The beauty... more info

NME — Velvet Underground, Suicide and Julian Cope also feature on US duo's mixtape more info

Stereogum — MGMT have curated the latest in the series of LateNightTales compilations, and their edition features tons of indie-canon stuff like the Velvet Underground and Suicide. The band themselves only contribute one track to the comp, a slightly sunny but m... more info

Chicago Tribune — Kurt Cobain and the riot grrrls would approveLike the Velvet Underground and Big Star, the Raincoats were one of those bands who were better at inspiring future generations of bands than selling records. more info

NME — Band also say release will come with a special strobe light toy more info