LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming the new Rufus Wainwright album, Out of the Game (out May 1st). The New Yorker features an excerpt from Ian McEwan's forthcoming novel, Sweet Tooth. Tone Deaf interviews Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes. The Brooklyn Baker (the... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Out of the Game succeeds because Wainwright remains stubbornly himself: pouring vibrato into each long vocal line, reaching for the higher note in a chorus, unfolding song lines that only make sense once he's luxuriating in them. Rufus Wainwrig... more info

Guardian Music — The singer talks over lunch about music, marriage and fatherhoodI have horrifying cholesterol levels," says Rufus Wainwright, noting burrata on the menu at La Petite Maison in Mayfair and wondering whether to order the rich, creamy cheese. "I should ... more info

Guardian Music — Underwhelmed with the festival bills this year? Could be because Finland's Flow has been slyly snapping up the best talent – Frank Ocean, Hudson Hohawke and Bobby Womack are the latest additions to a ridiculous bill. Tickets are on sale to UK buyer... more info

Gigwise — US singer/songwriter to tour tracks from new album 'Out Of The Game' - tickets more info

Guardian Music — (Proper)There's nothing Loudon Wainwright likes more than mixing gloom with humour – and the realisation he has now lived for longer than his father is the perfect excuse for a concept album about death. There are 14 new songs here, along with an e... more info

Guardian Music — (Polydor)Wainwright defiantly says his seventh studio album is "very Rufus", as if to establish that bringing in Mark Ronson as producer hasn't impinged on his fundamental Rufusness. Quite so: Ronson's keynote retro-soul makes incursions, but Wainwri... more info

DrownedInSound — A record that leaves no seam un-burst in its insatiable quest for mainstream adoration and success. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Irvine Welsh and other authors discuss the legacy of his debut novel Trainspotting with the Independent. "I must have been 13 or 14 when I first came across it," says Helen Walsh, whose debut Brass created a stushie in 2005.... more info

Guardian Music — Tumbling free, and making good use of the things that we findWe're on Tumblr. One doesn't like to boast about these things, but it's a fact. Guardianmusic.tumblr.com is the place where our writers stick up any songs, videos, pictures, and any other m... more info