Guardian Music — From little fluffy clouds to UFO sightings, you reached for the sky with suggestions of best opening album tracksA cock crows. An aeroplane soars across the sky. A BBC radio announcer is heard discussing British summertime. His voice floats across th... more info

Guardian Music — Oscar-winning actor to record solo LP with T-Bone Burnett and Roseanne Cash. And Elton John may be involved too ...He won an Oscar for playing a country singer in Crazy Heart, but now Jeff Bridges is slinging on his guitar in real life, releasing a d... more info

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Totally Fuzzy — ANTI Fall Sampler. ANTI Records Band Page player. ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label of Epitaph Records. While Epitaph's focus has shifted over the last decade from mostly punk rock, nowadays ANTI- has a mor... more info

Impose Magazine — Back when you were just a twinkle in your father's eye, Buck 65 was writing rap songs about being a centaur in the porno industry. Some 20 odd years later, his style is far removed from the juvenile jokes; he's something in the vein of a hip hop Tom ... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe opening night of this year's La Linea Latin music festival was an unlikely blend of theatricality and experiment that combined a young Israeli singer, who mixes flamenco with songs in the endangered Ladino language, and a tango ex... more info

Guardian Music — Tom Waits's former nanny Jesca Hoop is as intriguing as her boss. Maddy Costa meets herJesca Hoop is a troubled woman. The woes that waylay the Californian singer-songwriter range from major – the recent death of both parents – to minor: a war ag... more info

DrownedInSound — It is Friday. It is the end of a fantastic week. Here is our Spotify playlist which soundtracks all of what has been on the site this week... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Follow-up to For Emma, Forever Ago was made with a little help from Justin Vernon's friends after he 'forgot how to write songs'Four years after Bon Iver emerged from a Wisconsin cabin with one of the 2000s' most celebrated records, the forlorn folki... more info