Guardian Music — Scratch any literate songwriter – Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey – and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS EliotThe New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wr... more info

Topix — The death of rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who formed an eponymous band in the 1970s and played with heavy hitters such as Van Morrison and Herbie Hancock, has been ruled a suicide. more info

Gigwise — 68-year-old singer songwriter joins Feist on top of bill at Welsh festival more info

Chorus.fm — *Van Morrison* (http://www.vanmorrison.com) will headline the Green Man Festival (http://www.greenman.net) in Wales this year. more info

Guardian Music — When the darts star's face popped up behind Dexys Midnight Runners on Top of the Pops in 1982, it looked like a cock-up. Not so …As news spread of the death of two-time Darts World Champion Jocky Wilson last weekend, Twitter was trending and Facebo... more info

Guardian Music — Whether it was intended that way or not, Michael Kiwanuka's debut ticks a lot of the boxes required for pop success in 2012If such a thing as a racing certainty still exists in these turbulent times for rock and pop, then Michael Kiwanuka's debut alb... more info

Stereogum — The shred-master guitarist Ronnie Montrose, the former leader of the band Montrose and one of the great technical wizards from the early days of hard rock, died on Saturday, possibly of prostate cancer. He was 64. Montrose got his start as a session ... more info

ContactMusic — The guitarist RONNIE MONTROSE has sadly died at the age of 64 his booking agent Jim Douglas confirming that the virtuoso had passed away at his home in California on Sunday Montrose had several of his own bands but hell be known more for his diverse ... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, YorkWith Van Morrison's reputation for unpredictability or grumpiness, you fear the worst when a disembodied voice threatens to remove anyone in the audience using a mobile phone. However, moments later, the singer rampages into a cheery,... more info

Guardian Music — (One Fine Day)The idea is certainly original: take a series of interviews with well-known Irish musicians, and then mix short excerpts of speech with instrumental work that follows the rhythms of a spoken phrase. The interviewees include Christy Moor... more info