Guardian Music — Fifty years ago this week, a nervous band called the Rollin' Stones played their first gig – to a bemused crowd of jazz fans. Christopher Sandford, the band's biographer, charts a revolutionIn the summer of 1962, the management of the Academy cinem... more info

Guardian Music — Koko, LondonMatthew Ward is set to bid farewell to his cult status. After a decade spent forging a solo career in the cosy backwater of the US alt-country and indie-folk scenes, the singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon, saw his seventh album, A Wa... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Canada-based music-services firm opens an office in Los Angeles. It believes its holistic approach will work despite the industry's struggles.Seb Webber stood in a stark office space 12 floors above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, surveying his ne... more info

Mercury News, California — Buddy Holly lives on in benefit performances for San Jose Stage. more info

Guardian Music — MGMT, the Kills and Best Coast to cover some of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits on forthcoming albumSome of the world's biggest indie artists have come together with a host of music legends to celebrate the work of Fleetwood Mac on a new compilation.The... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Hundred in the Hands (sometimes abbreviated as THITH) is an American electropop duo formed in 2008 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The band consists of Eleanore Everdell (vocals, keyboards) and Jason Friedman (guitar, programming). The ban... more info

Guardian Music — 1957: Co-written by Buddy Holly, this still sounds more poignant and fresher than anything elseEveryone needs to start somewhere, and this was the song that a group called the Quarrymen first recorded, as a demonstration disc, the following year, sho... more info

Guardian Music — The Shads' No 1 hit from 1960 conjures up the twang of the west … and a time before the Beatles ruled the airwavesThere was a time in the early 60s when an English guitarist and former skiffle player who looked rather like Buddy Holly seemed the ep... more info

Guardian Music — For four decades, Clark was not just the clean-cut face but the power-broker of American pop music. And he was a gentlemanDick Clark, who has died suddenly at the age of 82, was like a family member to Americans of all backgrounds – thanks both to ... more info

Impose Magazine — All too often bands channeling the doo wop sway and groove of the 50s are enslaved nostalgists who will swear they were born in the wrong era if you ask why they chose a 60-year old platform. They role with pin-ups girls, grease up or caridgan up, an... more info