411 Mania — From Adele and Kate Bush to Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Wild Flag, Anna Calvi and more, 411's Christopher Bell counts down the top 10 female artists of the year! Check out the full article to see who made his list and why! more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offThe Rumour Said Fire By the Shore Jasper Lidang grew up in remote northern Denmark filling long childhood hours by intercutting his dad's Paul Simon records with Nirvana a... more info

Guardian Music — As her latest album rides high in many end-of-year polls, we want to know what you consider to be the singer's best work50 Words for Snow, the latest album from Kate Bush and No 29 in the Guardian's albums of the year list, has received many glowing ... more info

Guardian Music — Next week we'll be counting down our top 10 albums of the year … but here's how the rest of our critics' top 50 looksStarting on Monday we'll be counting down Guardian critics' top 10 albums of 2011. To get you in the mood, here's how our writers v... more info

Impose Magazine — Kate Bush just released her tenth studio album, 50 Words For Snow, and there are few people outside of the 1980s UK that love Kate Bush more than Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington. The Portland group began recording in 2003 and have three album... more info

Stereogum — Even for a longtime iconoclast like Kate Bush, the song “Misty” is a true flight of fancy — a thirteen-minute-plus tragic reverie about a woman who gets busy with a snowman. When the track is actually playing, it’s easy to get lost in Bush’... more info

Guardian Music — Do your parents' passions shape your own? Guardian music writers look back on their formative yearsLaura Barton In the evenings, after he had set down his briefcase and taken his first sip of gin and tonic, my dad would teach me how to rock'n'roll ... more info

Guardian Music — Our music writers are currently picking their albums of the year. What would yours be?December is nearly upon us, bringing the inevitable blizzard of best-album-of-the-year lists. The Guardian will of course be participating; as you read this, an arm... more info

411 Mania — From T.I. making a generous donation and Florence + The Machine's supposedly racist video to Big Boi wanting to collaborate with Kate Bush, Britney Spears comparing herself to Adele and more, 411's Nick Krenn breaks down the Right, the wRong and the ... more info

Guardian Music — The best of your comments on the latest films and musicIt is, said walworthroad, a "massive and beautiful song". "Stunning, simply stunning," reckoned dickyknee. "Still gives me goosebumps," agreed Zakelius. And what were they all agreed on? Why, So... more info