Guardian Music — You only need eight seconds to make a guitar solo really burn. Someone should tell Eric ClaptonReading this on mobile? Click hereI've nothing against Eric Clapton; in fact my school satchel bore the blotchy felt-tip inscription "EC = God" for a few m... more info

ContactMusic — Experience Hendrix LLC the official family company that manages all things Jimi Hendrix and Son Commercial Music Group are to release an expanded edition of Jimi Plays Berkeley on Blu-ray and DVD on July 9th 2012 The documentary film features... more info

Guardian Music — 'Bleeding, sweating, crying, suffocating and being crushed – that's what art is made of'What got you started?I was born like this – loving music and wanting to express myself through it. This is just how they made me.What was your big breakthroug... more info

Perez Hilton — Maybe! Because thanks to the Tupac hologram people over at Digital Domain Media Group, ANY dead figure can theoretically come to ‘life’ again… but only in a ghostly, controllable format, of course. And thanks to the lucrative potential of pim... more info

Gigwise — Estate of each star speak of hopes to bring rocks legends back to stage more info

Consequence of Sound — Sure, why not. more info

411 Mania — Thanks to their estates... more info

Guardian Music — We'd like to hear about your favourite portrayals of musiciansLast week we reported that Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins is to play Iggy Pop in new film CBGB, telling the story of the legendary New York venue.Last month we heard OutKast's André ... more info

XLR8R — There's only a handful of artists that can justify a four-part series of full-length reissues: Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and (of course) Drexciya. Even though pretty much no one would agree with that statement for various reasons, you ha... more info

Guardian Music — Rather than helping to create a rock'n'roll revolution, the unwillingness to pay for music means more assembly-line artistsEver since Lars Ulrich and his band Metallica experienced a massive public backlash for suing Napster, artists have been wary o... more info