Guardian Music — Mojo editor hails 'remarkable' year for Rumer, while Arctic Monkeys, John Grant and Primal Scream also win awardsAfter chasing a record deal for more than a decade, Sarah Joyce – otherwise known as the singer-songwriter Rumer – has taken home the... more info

Guardian Music — Hyde Park, London"Just think, all those people at Glastonbury are covered in mud," said Adam Ant on Sunday afternoon, spelling out the chief advantage of this oddly faceless festival over its more atmospheric rival: each year, it somehow escapes the ... more info

Guardian Music — The Kinks' Ray Davies, New York indie singer Darwin Deez, Metronomy's Joseph Mount and About Group/This Heat drummer Charles Hayward reflect on Glastonbury. And Donovan performs The Music Maker, a song he wrote about the festivalAndy GallagherBen Kap... more info

NME - Festivals — For all of those who aren't heading to Worthy Farm this weekend, there's some classic rock goodtimes to be had at the Hard Rock Calling festival in Hyde Park. Along with Bon Jovi, Ray Davies, Rod Stewart there are comeback performances from The Kille... more info

Guardian Music — Meltdown festival, LondonA man blessed in many ways, but never with a sunny disposition, it sometimes seems as if Ray Davies spent the entire 60s complaining. The most recurring of his grumbles involved the Kinks's record company. Not only did Pye Re... more info

Guardian Music — Southbank Centre, London"I was on acid when I saw the Kinks for the first time," Ron Sexsmith mutters. Ray Davies – former Kink and current Meltdown curator – slings on a guitar, preparing to accompany the Canadian troubadour on a version of the ... more info

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Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThere is a predictably 60s theme to much of Ray Davies's Meltdown, so it is appropriate that the festival's main world-music offering should come from a band who are influenced by the psychedelic and surf-rock music scene ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonAn indie institution 27 years in the making, Yo La Tengo are gloriously unpredictable. It's often said that no two shows by the New Jersey trio are alike. This is nowhere more apparent than at Sunday's Meltdown show, titled... more info