Guardian Music — Why men will be banned from Marina Abramovic's Meltdown showPerformance artist best known for her 2010 work, The Artist is Present, in which for three months she invited visitors to take turns sitting opposite her at New York's MoMA galleryWhat does ... more info

Guardian Music — Ty Segall, On tourAccording to one of his T-shirts, "You can't spell party without Ty", and that's certainly true. This San Francisco native specialises in an upbeat, melodic garage rock somewhere between the Beatles and Nirvana, but without the pres... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Joshua Light Show in action The Joshua Light Show, founded by multimedia artist Joshua White, is perhaps the most legendary group of live music visualists. As resident artists at Bill Graham's Fillmore East during the late 1960's,... more info

Guardian Music — Each week we invite someone to share with us some of the songs they've been listening to recently. Today's selection features Stornoway, Radiohead, Laura Marling and the xxThis week's playlist is from Ava Lockyear, who spent two weeks at the Guardian... more info

Guardian Music — This year's Antony Hegarty-curated festival begins on 1 August. Before then, tell us about your favourite Meltdown momentsAs anyone who caught our Antony and the Johnsons music site takeover will know, Antony Hegarty knows a thing or two about artful... more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Lou Reed has paid tribute to his former Syracuse University professor in a new published poem The former Velvet Underground frontman studied under literary great Delmore Schwartz in the early 1960s and still clearly has a lot of affection for ... more info

Guardian Music — Forty years ago David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. So here is a 1972 NME interview with Bowie as selected from Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalismThree changes of ... more info

ContactMusic — In our story headlined The Killers Sample Lou Reed Classic On New Album published in WENNs 3rd feed on 5th June 12 we reported that The Killers have sampled a bass line from Lou Reeds Walk on the Wild Side in a new song We have since been informe... more info

ContactMusic — Rock band The Killers have sampled Lou Reeds classic track Walk On The Wild Side for a song on their upcoming album The Las Vegas musicians have used the famous bass line from the 1972 hit in a track to be featured on their long-awaited new record Ba... more info

Metal Injection — If you really want to purchase the guitar tab book, FINE, you can get it here. [via Cattle Decap's Facebook] more info