ContactMusic — Stars including Slash Huey Morgan and Joe Bonamassa have paid tribute to guitar amp pioneer Jim Marshall The Marshall Amplification founder whose equipment was used by rock legends like Jimi Hendrix Joe Perry and Kurt Cobain has died at the age of 88... more info

Dlisted — The Guitar Pee Urinal - Billboard Brasil installed a working guitar and amp in a urinal at Sao Paolo's Bar Aurora so that drunks can become a regular P.P. King, Pissy Hendrix or Pee Townshend with their piss streams. (Kim Kardashian will start h... more info

411 Mania — From Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams" and Johnny Cash's take on Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" to Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee," Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" and more, the 411 staff ranks their top 5 cover songs of all-time! more info

Guardian Music — A trip to North Carolina to study bluegrass yielded this lesson: Earl Scruggs was the greatest there ever wasI spent a couple of months last year studying bluegrass in North Carolina, and I learned that there are is one tune you never ask a banjo pla... more info

411 Mania — Is Jimi Hendrix the best act never to win a Grammy? Where was the video for Duran Duran's "Rio" actually filmed? Was a song about suicide banned from both Hungary and America? All this and more covered this week in Ask 411 Music!! more info

Guardian Music — Hackney Empire, LondonIt's a bit of a caricature, but in the world of art, there are two types of practitioners: first, the artist who leaps from one subject to another, mixing media, restlessly looking for the next new thing. Then there are those wh... more info

Topix — The 8 Ball 03.13.12: Top 8 Murder Songs Posted by Wyatt E. on 03.19.2012 From Eminem's "Kim" and Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" to Rammstein's "Mein Teil," "Mind Of A Lunatic" by the Geto Boys and more, 411's Wyatt E. takes a look at the top 8 songs about ... more info

411 Mania — From Eminem's "Kim" and Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" to Rammstein's "Mein Teil," "Mind Of A Lunatic" by the Geto Boys and more, 411's Wyatt E. takes a look at the top 8 songs about murder! more info

Guardian Music — Released on 19 March 1962, Bob Dylan's debut remains a landmark of popular cultureA rollicking rush on guitar is followed by the line, "I don't know why I love you like I do", sung with something between a hollow laugh and a stab of pain; and after o... more info

Guardian Music — See a minimum of four acts so hot you could fry an egg on them at the Guardian's latest New Band of the Day night on 11 AprilFour acts have been announced to play the second New Band of the Day (NB)TD) gig, based on Paul Lester's daily column for gua... more info