Guardian Music — Emily Eavis has asked her Twitter followers to suggest acts for next year's festival – but who would you like to see playing? (Spoiler: the Stone Roses will not be on the bill)Emily Eavis, co-organiser of the Glastonbury festival, tweeted on Friday... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As a teenager Mike Scott fronted his first garage bands, playing original songs and punk covers, and wrote his own rock fanzine before moving to the lights of Edinburgh and London in quest of glory. In the 1980s he... more info

Guardian Music — This week's Mercury prize nominations were widely judged to be straight and safe. Here our critics suggest 12 records that should have made the listPlayin' Me Cooly G (Hyperdub)It sells itself as qualitative judgment and always arrives wreathed in a ... more info

ContactMusic — World Party frontman Karl Wallinger is still suffering sight problems following his 2001 brain aneurysm which kept him away from the music scene for five years The Ship of Fools hitmaker a one-time member of cult folk rockers The Waterboys suffered t... more info

Guardian Music — To accompany our Edinburgh city guide, crime writer Ian Rankin has picked 10 tunes that soundtrack his home town, from the Bay City Rollers to the Proclaimers via the Rezillos and Iggy Pop• As featured in our Edinburgh city guideJosef K – It's Ki... more info

The Telegraph — An Appointment With Mr Yeats is a fabulous feast of words and music. more info

The Telegraph — Mike Scott tells Neil McCormick how the Waterboys' new album marries the work of the great Irish poet to epic Celtic rock and roll more info

Guardian Music — The success of Ramsbottom's first music festival has left many ready for more - including guest blogger Claire Cunningham who sampled the folk delightsThe sky was dark, the rain came and went, but the closing evening of Ramsbottom's new boutique fest... more info

DrownedInSound — An Appointment… continues in the vein of The Waterboys' last album proper, The Book of Lightning, in providing intermittent moments of lucid quality amid oodles of overwrought, forgettable filler. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com ... more info

Scotsman.com — The Waterboys: An Appointment with Mr Yeats Proper, £12.99 **** more info