Guardian Music — Like EE Cummings before her, Björk's rebellion and experimentation lies atop a rapturous response to the natural worldThe first time I read an EE Cummings poem, it was like a firecracker going off in my head. I was 16 years old, crouching between... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Documentary profiling the life of legendary country music star Johnny Cash, who died in 2003 shortly after completing the retrospective Unearthed, a five-CD set of the acoustic performances with which he resurrected his career in the last decade of ... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Jon Wilde explains how Louis Armstrong's music pulled him back from the brink …Even though Louis Armstrong ultimately changed my life, I came to jazz l... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Snoop Dogg, Drake, Lex Luger and B.o.B all took home top honors at BMI's Urban Awards in Hollywood on Friday.Snoop joins a list of past honorees that includes George Clinton, The Jacksons, James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. more info

Guardian Music — Midnight is an hour owned by rock'n'roll. It's a time of Moanin', Moving and Trains to Georgia. It's a time when love comes tumbling downI have my friends Sally and Tom to thank for reminding me of the Adrian Henri poem In the Midnight Hour. Until th... more info

Guardian Music — In Otis Redding's hands, Try a Little Tenderness fires a secular devotion that is every bit as intense as its spiritual cousinOf all the great soul singers, perhaps Solomon Burke is most famed for bringing the fervour of the church to his recordings... more info

Guardian Music — October 1955: Number 2 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicIn February 1955, the music that would become known as rock'n'roll was still latent. Bill Haley and the Comets were in the pop top 20 with Dim, Dim the Lights. Elvi... more info

ContactMusic — The Georgia Music Hall of Fame, which has honoured stars including James Brown, Little Richard and Otis Redding, is to close next month (Jun11) due to budget cuts. The state-funded museum was opened in 1996, but visitor numbers have dwindled in... more info

Topix — Little Richard tore it up in 'Tutti Frutti.' A man named Randy Wood died last month and all his obituaries prominently noted he was the man who made Pat Boone sing "Tutti Frutti." This happened while Wood owned Dot Records in the 1950s, and while tha... more info

Totally Fuzzy — JPR said... Dave Rawlings Machine The Little Room at Largo Los Angeles, CA February 13/14, 2009 AUD http://spontaneouswednesday.blogspot.com Larry said... I have uploaded another "Monkees Headquarters" episode at the Colgems Blog. This is the final... more info