ContactMusic — Alabama Shakes singer Brittany Howard based her singing on Pink Floyd The Hold On bands singer discovered the British psychedelic rockers when she was a teenager and decided she wanted to sing like the bands bass player Roger Waters She... more info

Mercury News, California — Roger Waters has hit a towering home run.The former frontman for Pink Floyd has taken The Wall Live Tour -- already a massive commercial and critical success on the arena circuit -- and supersized it to fit baseball stadiums. more info

Guardian Music — Scoff all you like at the song – but have you ever featured on a No 1 hit? No? Pipe down thenHere's a quiz question: which Chuck Berry single was the only one to go to No 1 in the UK? Was it Maybelline, No Particular Place to Go, or Johnny B Goode?... more info

Guardian Music — London singer's 4.2m-selling album enters top five bestsellers of all timeAdele's album 21 has outsold Michael Jackson's Thriller, becoming the fifth biggest-selling album of all time in the UK.Figures from the Official Charts Company show the singer... more info

ContactMusic — Pink Floyd star David Gilmour marked his wifes 50th birthday by serenading her with a love song at a party with family and friends The romantic rocker marked author Polly Samsons big day by throwing the celebration at the 20th Century Theatre in Nott... more info

Guardian Music — The Alabama Shakes singer-guitarist mixes some classic pop and soul albums with newer releases that root her in time and placeBrittany Howard, lead singer of blues-rock stompers Alabama Shakes, has been making music since she was 13. Aged 15, she tru... more info

Totally Fuzzy — With powerful vocals and intricate arrangements, Tatiana Kochkareva's intelligent indie-rock is both dynamic and haunting; a result of her early classical and jazz training mixed with her love of rock music greats like Pink Floyd and Queen. A ... more info

Guardian Music — The music to be played while the royal barge makes its way along the Thames for the Jubilee is a little dull. Perhaps the Queen would appreciate this alternative playlist?According to Adrian Evans, the "pageant master" tasked with arranging a London ... more info

Guardian Music — Stanley Reynolds tries to give modern music a fair hearingFor a whole decade now we have been putting up with the loud and aggressive artistic pretensions of pop music and mainly - and especially if we did not want to seem too outre - we have sat qui... more info

411 Mania — From Jay-Z's American Gangster, The Who's Tommy and Pink Floyd's The Wall to Radiohead's Kid A, Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar and more, the 411 staff ranks the top 5 concept albums of all-time! more info