Guardian Music — Guardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Killian Fox pours praise on an album by Tom WaitsWhen I was 12 or 13, my older brother played two albums in the car on a long journey h... more info

Guardian Music — (Emarcy/Decca)The dusky, retro-jazz croon that made Madeleine Peyroux famous is still present, and there are crowd-pleasing covers of McCartney's "Martha My Dear" and Dylan's "I Threw it All Away", but her ambitions have evolved since 2009's self-pen... more info

ContactMusic — British group Portishead have signed up to curate the 2011 All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New Jersey. The band has invited Marc Ribot, Swans, The Horrors, Mogwai and Deerhoof, among others to perform with them in Asbury Park in October (11). Port... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words & photos by Benjamin Lozovsky It could have been a showdown - a forceful match of skills, an exhilarating yet grueling slugfest. Instead, it was purely symbiotic and nurturing, a solemn and unwavering alliance between two endlessly energetic mu... more info

Altsounds — Sonic Youth's *Lee Ranaldo *will perform a solo suspended guitar score for Buster Keaton's 1922 silent film Cops at ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, on September 9, 2011. Ranaldo's score for Krannert Center will... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tinariwen will release a new album called Tassili on August 30 via Anti- Records (pictured above). The album was recorded entirely acoustic with contributions from Tunde Adebimpe & Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, the Dirty Dozen Brass... more info

Impose Magazine — The Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York City has announced an illustrious line-up for their Japan benefit concert that includes Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Mike Patton, Cibo Matto with Mephista, Marc Ribot, and Uri Caine & Zorn�... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Majestic Silver Strings is the name of a new band and a new album, and both defy expectations in a number of ways. It’s a guitarist supergroup of sorts, bringing together a disparate collection of four highly esteemed players:... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Two of the more idiosyncratic facets of the guitarist summit meeting of Buddy Miller, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz on “Buddy Miller’s The Majestic Silver Strings” album center on Ribot, the instrumentalist extraordinaire who has work... more info

Guardian Music — (New West)After years as an unsung Nashville session guitarist, Miller is on a roll as a producer (he bossed Robert Plant's Band of Joy) and lead. Here, he assembles stellar friends for a selection of antique country curios well salted with new mater... more info