The Music Fix — Review: Elvis was a hero to most... more info

Guardian Music — Beth Ditto has spent three years as a celeb mag cover star, kooky fashion queen, and newspaper agony aunt. Now, finally, she's ready to roll with a new Rick Rubin-produced Gossip album. 'I'm still punk!' she tells Rebecca NicholsonThis is for the dyk... more info

JamBase — LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III TO RELEASE HIGH WIDE & HANDSOME: THE CHARLIE POOLE PROJECT OUT AUGUST 25 SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE RUFUS AND MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, THE ROCHES, CHRIS THILE, AND OTHERS Loudon Wainwright III Loudon Wainwright III has created on... more info

Gigwise — It's out later this month... more info

The Music Fix — News: Edel entertainment's international rock music label earMUSIC is pleased to announce the June 15th release of 'Johnny Cash Remixed', the must have album featuring remix interpretations of Johnny Cash classics from the crème de la crÃÂ... more info

So much for thinking that a two-hour special devoted to George Strait would make him the sure-fire #1 artist on the charts this week. The best he could do was tie for fourth with Patty Loveless at 22 listeners. Sugarland is on top this week with 24 l... more info

Guardian Music — Not only was Faith commercially successful, it showed the former Wham! singer moving into Brian Wilson Pet Sounds territoryBarely a week goes by without another album getting the legacy-edition treatment. Usually I'm against the money-grabbing mental... more info

Rolling Stone — Adam Lambert didn’t win American Idol, but he’s the first real rock star the show has produced in its eight-year run (apologies to Chris Daughtry and David Cook). Brian Hiatt talked with the man Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield dubbed a glam-rock ... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Mayer/WireImage Since American Idol’s eighth season kicked off in January, audiences have been fixated on charismatic Adam Lambert, a contestant unlike any the show has seen in its run. His reworkings of songs like Johnny Cash’s “Ring of... more info

Guardian Music — The 'early example' of Dylan's 'brilliance' is, in fact, a song by the late Canadian country singer Hank SnowAmong the high-school memorabilia being auctioned for charity next month, organisers claimed to have stumbled across an "early example" of Bo... more info