betterPropoganda — Posted at 1:30pm, 9/26/2012 The NY-based reggae collective, Easy Star All-Stars, famous for their reggae tribute albums covering rock legends like Pink Floyd, Radiohead and The Beatles, recently released their new album Thrillah on Easy Star Reco... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Emerson, Lake & Palmer would become the grandparents of punk. The UK progressive rock trio, with classical training, lengthy compositions and lofty lyrics, would get under the skin of snotty nosed kids within a decade of their heyday. Before that K... more info

Guardian Music — There's an unlikely comeback for the underground Italian cosmic rocker who's had a hand in prog, ambient, new wave, disco and tranceOnly in Brooklyn would you find a place called the Body Actualized Center For Cosmic Living. Its mission, as outlined ... more info

Guardian Music — EC says music giant can buy rival only if it sells off labels that are home to Coldplay, Blur, Kylie Minogue and othersUniversal Music has been given the green light for its £1.2bn EMI takeover by the European Commission, but will have to sell off l... more info

Guardian Music — This week's Mercury prize nominations were widely judged to be straight and safe. Here our critics suggest 12 records that should have made the listPlayin' Me Cooly G (Hyperdub)It sells itself as qualitative judgment and always arrives wreathed in a ... more info

Dlisted — Kerry Katona (32) Pippa Middleton (29) Foxy Brown (34) Cisco Adler (34) Naomie Harris (36) Justin Whalin (38) Nina Persson (38) Justina Machado (40) Idris Elba (40) Anika Noni Rose (40) Dolores O'Riordan (41) CeCe Peniston (43) Macy Gray (45) Ro... more info

Totally Fuzzy — What if? Hah! What ifs are good to play with. What if Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green and Pink Floyd founder Syd Barret would both have withdrawn together into some cabin in Finland? These guys - Kiki Pau - are currently in Länsi-Herttoniemi, an... more info

Guardian Music — Koko, LondonEvery music movement has its pioneers and its parasites. It was Bush's grave misfortune to be viewed as the ultimate bandwagon-jumping opportunists of the early 90s grunge scene, with the London band being dismissed in their native land a... more info

ContactMusic — Pink Floyd star Roger Waters Peter Gabriel and Holes Patty Schemel have added their voices to the chorus of support for the jailed members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot Feminist rockers Nadezhda T... more info

Guardian Music — Bands such as the Von Hertzen Brothers, Gazpacho and Touchstone suggest the spirit of prog lives on. That's why I'm honoured to be hosting the first ever progressive music awardsIt was all Murray Sim's fault. He lived near me on the outskirts of Edin... more info