Guardian Music — Songwriter and producer, celebrated for his work with Bob Dylan, Neil Young and U2, recovering in hospital following crashCelebrated songwriter and producer Daniel Lanois is in intensive care following a serious motorcycle accident last weekend. Lano... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Drew Kaiser The core band of The Gentle Guest is a quartet, but it can get crowded when they bring in the horns and such on stage to make a ten-piece. And they will need ten players when they want to recreate the roaring Twenties blues sound ... more info

Guardian Music — The sharpest tool in the box can also cut it as an instrument of spectral, shivering beautyWhat is it? Those big metal things with teeth you use to carve up wood? Add a violin bow and an ear for pitch and you can make farm tools sing.Who uses it? The... more info

Guardian Music — Last week, it was music set in ale houses. This time we want your favourite songs about people performing songs. Merchandise will be available afterwardsThe statistics are clear, the pub is in decline. Faced with fierce competition from supermarkets ... more info

Guardian Music — In the songs chosen this week, the pub is a place in which one finds both freedom and captivity, solidarity and loneliness, oblivion and remembranceThe bar, as it features in song, must contain a specific set of components: one bar (for leaning again... more info

Totally Fuzzy — roy rocket said... Hiya Fuzzies! A very groovy set recorded in 2004 for the BBC by: The Jacques Loussier Trio Excellent sound quality @320. Mainly Bach interpretations, but a bit of Debussy and Satie as well. A very pleasant way to spend an hour. Rea... more info

Swedesplease — Here’s the newest video from My Brother, The Band – a Gothenburg based singer/songwriter who makes acoustic music in the pattern of Elliott Smith and Nick Drake. His original songs are as sad as that description implies. Check out his MySpace p... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming the new Black Keys album, Brothers (out May 18th), in its entirety. PopMatters interviews author Cory Doctorow. Spinner reports that a Dutch theater company will stage a production of Shakespeare's Henry III featuring music by Tom Wa... more info

Pitchfork — This fall, Dutch theater group Orkater will stage a new music theater performance of Shakespeare's Richard III featuring songs from the catalog of Tom Waits and his wife/writing partner Kathleen Brennan. (Via Anti-.) Fittingly, the group playing the ... more info

Guardian Music — This Baltimore trio fuse the synth melancholy of New Order with the gruff melodrama of Tom Waits. Swordfishtechnique, anyone?Hometown: Baltimore.The lineup: J Gerrit Welmers (synthesisers, programming), William Cashion (bass), Samuel T Herring (vocal... more info