Guardian Music — Sombre prophet, mordant wisecracker, repentant cad: Leonard Cohen is back with a great new album, Old Values – and more wit and wisdomOn Leonard Cohen's gruelling 1972 world tour, captured in Tony Palmer's documentary Bird on a Wire, an interviewer... more info

Guardian Music — One of the first US musicians to cross the racial divide in his search for 'soul'The bandleader Johnny Otis, who has died aged 90, was one of the first white American musicians to cross the racial divide, aligning himself with the black community a... more info

Guardian Music — In an extract from his memoir written before he died last year, Gil Scott-Heron talks about when he toured with Stevie Wonder to establish Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday in the USMemphis, Tennessee was only 90 miles west of Jackson, my ... more info

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ContactMusic — To mark what would have been his 77th birthday fans of Elvis Presley can book tickets for a special guided tour of the Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway The Palm Springs residence is the house that Elvis and Priscilla Presley retreated to after their wedding ... more info

Guardian Music — For Howler, comparisons with compatriots the Strokes are inevitable – the young Americans unashamedly raid rock history"I'll take it as a compliment," shrugs Howler's Jordan Gatesmith, of the growing pile of articles favourably comparing his band t... more info

Guardian Music — A new website provides some unexpected route maps by hooking up the characters that move from one fiction into anotherThe concept of a "metafictional reality" – a sideways universe in which characters in books know they are characters in books – ... more info

Guardian Music — Between 1955 and 1960, Cleveland DJ Tommy Edwards photographed guests who would stop by his studio at WERE-AM. The resulting trove – more than 1,700 Ektachrome slides of everyone from Elvis Presley to Doris Day in their prime – has been collected... more info

Starpulse — Frank Sinatra was arguably the most important popular music figure of the 20th century, his only real rivals for the title being Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles. more info

Guardian Music — Joe Loss vocalist and creator of the secret lemonade drinkerThe jazz and pop musician Ross MacManus, who has died aged 84, was a featured singer in the 1960s with Britain's leading dance band, the Joe Loss orchestra, and in the 1970s the creator of t... more info