Guardian Music — It's easy now to see that when rock and disco clashed, disco won. But records like this suggest we should have realised a whole lot earlier It happened earlier this month as I piloted a tiny rented car across Lanzarote, regaled by the awful playlist ... more info

Discobelle.net — Burn Studios, in conjunction with legendary 70′s label Casablanca (ahem, Donna Summer, The Village People, Parliament) and Denmark disco behemoth Gomma are hosting a pretty great remix competition that you can get in on. They’re offering up a tra... more info

Guardian Music — Disco's 1970s heyday opened doors for black, Hispanic and gay people, and its influence lives onIf you weren't able to make it to the swanky One Night Only reopening of New York's legendary uptown disco mecca Studio 54 last October, don't fret about ... more info

Guardian Music — The New York gay crowd mixed soul with LSD, the Europeans brought the synths … and the aftershocks have reverberated for decadesThere are many fine moments in BBC4's The Joy Of Disco, a 60-minute romp through the 10 years, 1969-79, in which the mus... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonOlga Neuwirth was the subject of the second of the London Sinfonietta's portrait concerts this season. The 43-year-old Austrian is best known in Britain for Lost Highway, her music-theatre piece based on David Lynch's film... more info

Guardian Music — As Public Image Ltd complete their back catalogue reissue programme, we take another visit to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage rock journalism – for an encounter between New York Rocker magazine and John Lydon It is two o... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Others to be inducted include the Beastie Boys, Donovan, Laura Nyro, the Small Faces and Don Kirshner. Among those that didn't make the cut: the Cure, Donna Summer. Three musical iron fists meet a pair of velvet gloves as Guns... more info

Totally Fuzzy — All pop music is love and theft, and Soft Metals are particularly upfront about both. The arty Portland electronic duo formed in early 2009, with singer Patricia Hall and keyboardist/programmer Ian Hicks becoming a romantic couple not much later. Th... more info

Guardian Music — This hi-NRG heavyweight's bombastic rock-disco packs a punch. But will it prove a knockout?Hometown: London.The lineup: Tyson "Tendai" Speede (vocals, music).The background: Tyson is currently being hyped as hot! and new! in some parts of the undergr... more info

Guardian Music — US singer, songwriter and producer who became known as 'the mother of hip-hop'Sylvia Robinson, who has died aged 75, made an indelible mark on African-American music as a singer, producer and record company owner. She sang on hit records from the 195... more info