Guardian Music — A Vancounver-based blogger writes about 'a life in love with music'Who are you and what's your blog called?I'm Mikala Taylor and my site's called BackstageRider.Where are you based?Vancouver, Canada but I have a lot of readers in the US and the UK.De... more info

NME - Radar — By The Sea are getting a fair bit of heat at the moment, and rightly so. The Wirral band have a handful of tracks online, and as I alluded to in the magazine this week, they make me think of Mick Head if he was fronting Voyager 1 era Verve. Possibly.... more info

Guardian Music — The readers' panel takes on Spiritualized's best-loved albumFollowing an exhaustive and entirely non-scientific poll via Twitter and on our Facebook page, this week's readers' panel will be on just one album – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating I... more info

Guardian Music — Ron Gibbs is a nostalgic futurist who makes ambient dub in the style of the Orb or Aphex TwinHometown: Michigan.The lineup: Ron Gibbs (music, production).The background: There are probably better genres of music to enjoy right now than ambient dub as... more info

Pop Justice — In America, One Direction’s 'What Makes You Beautiful' has entered the Hot 100 at Number 28, the highest placed British debut since The Verve’s 'Bittersweet Symphony' in 1998. (Billboard) (http://www.billboard.com/news/one-direction-has-highest-h... more info

Guardian Music — Composer and arranger of 60s French pop hits, horror film scores and 'audio homages' to the Stones and the Beach BoysWhen the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony became one of pop's more famous copyright cases in the late 1990s, it was widely known that 100... more info

Guardian Music — This Bristol band are baggy meets shoegaze: shaggy, perhapsHometown: Weston-Super-Mare.The lineup: James MacLucas (vocals), John Paul Beaumont (guitar), Adam Hastings (bass), Miles Hastings (drums).The background: Twenty years or so ago there was a w... more info

Guardian Music — Member of Frank Zappa's original Mothers of InventionJim "Motorhead" Sherwood, who has died aged 69, was a member of Frank Zappa's original Mothers of Invention. He appeared on all the group's early albums, up to and including Weasels Ripped My Flesh... more info

411 Mania — Their first since “Underneath” in 2001… more info

Guardian Music — O2 Arena, LondonIn the middle of the crowd, a gaggle of about 40 people is squatting down, beckoning others to do the same. Onstage, Kasabian are playing "Fire", the final song of their encore. Guitarist and birthday boy Serge Pizzorno – skinny of ... more info