Guardian Music — When it comes to songwriting, say it simply and don't worry about how it might sound on a car advert. Oh, and beware of predictive text …In the comments section of a previous blog a reader suggested I write more about the creative elements of being... more info

Guardian Music — Versatile singer and songwriter famed for Feel Like Makin' LoveGene McDaniels, the American singer and songwriter, who has died aged 76, began and ended his career as the smoothest of vocal stylists. His hits of the early 1960s, such as A Hundred Pou... more info

Guardian Music — This French duo take the breezy harmonies of Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson to create blissful Balearica-tinged popHometown: South London.The lineup: Matthieu Beck and Marie Merlet.The background: It just so happened that last week we were in Connec... more info

Guardian Music — From Pulp's peeping Tom to Gil Scott-Heron's Watergate rap, here are the songs you've been phone-tapping your feet toEavesdropping: the act of secretly listening in to others' conversations, whether accidentally or deliberately.Dr Feelgood, on their ... more info

Guardian Music — Snubbed by Scotland's jazz scene, guitar virtuoso Bill Wells has teamed up with ex-Arab Strap man Aidan Moffat for a panoramic meditation on life and death'I like to think I can do things over a very wide musical range," Bill Wells says. "Even if you... more info

Scotsman.com — SHE plays some of the most prestigious music venues in the world and her voice has mesmerised A-list celebrities such as Elton John and Burt Bacharach. more info

Guardian Music — 'I worked with Salvador Dalí for four days. He did a sculpture of my brain with a chocolate eclair running down the back'What got you started?I was at that perfect age: I was 15 when the Beatles came out in the US; then the Rolling Stones, the Kinks... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Seasons Of My Soul is the debut album by British singer, Rumer. Available in the US from September 2011, but you don't have to wait that long, you can already stream it in full, and enjoy it below, after you clicked Read More... thanks to the good f... more info

Guardian Music — Singer with the Walker Brothers, one of the most popular bands of the 1960sWhile British groups were conquering the American pop charts in the mid-1960s, the American-born Walker Brothers were a three-man invasion of Britain. They were one of the mos... more info

Guardian Music — Hammersmith Apollo, LondonIt has been more than a decade since R Kelly, the self-proclaimed King of R&B, last passed through London – time enough for his original fans to have grown up and stayed loyal despite the child-pornography charges (of whi... more info