Guardian Music — First she turned down Jay-Z's label, then she said no to a Jarvis Cocker track – not bad for someone who had just quit Topshop. Alexis Petridis meets singer-songwriter Clare MaguireThe day she met Rick Rubin, says Clare Maguire, was "probably the m... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Rowe’s honest and haunting songwriting have already earned comparisons to Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks phase, for his abstract lyric phrasing, and the way he crafts an experience of emotion, rather than telling a linear tale. Most powerfully he ... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonOn record, The Low Anthem are textbook sepia-tinted, folk-hued Americana. Live, they fall somewhere between an art happening and an absurdist musical circus. The Rhode Island four-piece's third album, Smart Flesh, is a hus... more info

Guardian Music — It's the fifth album from the mysterious Californian songwriter – so what can we learn from the man behind the music?Five albums and one EP in, and Cass McCombs still cuts an enigmatic figure. Here's what we do know: the Californian singer-songwrit... more info

The Telegraph — The diminutive Keren Ann Zeidel tells Thomas H Green the secrets of her literate, orchestral pop. more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe opening night of this year's La Linea Latin music festival was an unlikely blend of theatricality and experiment that combined a young Israeli singer, who mixes flamenco with songs in the endangered Ladino language, and a tango ex... more info

ContactMusic — Singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen has won the latest Glenn Gould Prize for his lifetime contribution to the arts. The Canadian star was handed the 50,000 Canadian dollars cash prize last week (ends01Apr11). Past winners... more info

Totally Fuzzy — W said... * STEPPENWOLF Ride With Me - Gothenburg, 1972 Classic Swinging Pig bootleg. * BECK - The Record Club Releases #1-#5 Beck and friends cover classic albums - live in the studio, then give it all away for free. NOW... posted alongside the orig... more info

Guardian Music — The former Smog man is back with a new album, Apocalypse, that deals with America, emotions and the 'cattle inside you'. Just don't tell him it's a change of direction ... Just as Bill Callahan is pondering which seat to chose in a half-deserted Lond... more info

From Mato, From London — Josh T. Pearson Texas (USA) A co jo nan te. En un punto inverosímil donde Bon Iver se cruza con Leonard Cohen están estas canciones de una belleza y una intensidad estremecedoras. Grabado en dos noches legendarias. Te gustarán si te gustan Damien ... more info