Stereogum — When you stop and think about all the great songs Buddy Holly wrote, it’s crazy to remember he died in that plane crash when he was 22. (Hurry up, Tyler.) If he’d lived, he would’ve been 75 this year. As a tribute/memorial, Paul McCartney, My M... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "The Story Pirates, a national arts and literacy organization, will take the stage alongside special celebrity guests, including Jon Stewart (The Daily Show), Lou Reed, Ana Gasteyer (Saturday Night Live, Wicked), John Oliver (Community, The Daily Sho... more info

Guardian Music — 'There's a fascination in bands and their backing singers, the distance between a song and the voices that give it a blood-red vitality'A warm May afternoon in north London, and in John Moore's living room we are recording backing vocals for some of ... more info

The Music Fix — Lollapa-LOU-za! (You're fired - Ed.) more info

NME - The Daily Download — Following the latest Arctic Monkeys tidbit; namely that ‘Suck It And See’ was influenced by ”Nick Cave, John Cale, Lou Reed, (David) Bowie (and) Leonard Cohen”, let’s see if you can spot the handiwork of any of those past masters on the lat... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Booker T. Jones, the great soul organist and session player, seems on this latest outing uninterested in flashing his celebrated chops merely to dazzle listeners. Half a century into a career best known for his work with those other Memphis studio ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — It's Friday again, so it'll be week-end soon... time for some partying for some? Here's one House/Techno/DJ set to get you all warmed up and in the mood... one single 1 hour and 5 minutes long track... the whole set as recorded at House of Blues on ... more info

Guardian Music — Mariah Carey had twins to the sound of her hit We Belong Together. Here's our birthing playlist . . .As if the royal wedding hadn't spread enough joy over the bank holiday weekend, singer and America's Got Talent judge Mariah Carey gave birth to twin... more info

ContactMusic — Buddy Holly superfans Sir Paul Mccartney and Cee Lo Green are among the all-stars who have recorded covers of the rock 'n' roll legend's classics for a new tribute album. The duo will join My Morning Jacket, Patti Smith and Lou Reed, among others,... more info

Guardian Music — Family car journeys are where musical seeds are sown. We revelled in the Gnu Song, the Bee Song and Bernard Cribbins's Right Said FredMy parents headed back to Lancashire after the Easter weekend, and as they left I gave them a pile of records for th... more info