Undercover, Australia — Ken Brown of The Quarrymen, a band that eventually morphed into The Beatles, has died at age 70. more info

Totally Fuzzy — arthurfromholland said... Cuby & The Blizzards, Groeten uit Grollo(with regards from Grollo 1967)is the second album from the great dutch bluesband. and... C&B are still going strong ,see my weblog. more music with The Kinks(Peter Quaife R.I.P.) Bob ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Peter said... Old Fart at Play Buy This Used Compact Disc – A Dutch East India Sampler (1993) Grass of ’96 (1996) http://bitemefanboy.wordpress.com FourSteps said... FourSteps continues its year-by-year overview of prominent albums with the annu... more info

ContactMusic — Sir Paul McCartney doesn't feel his age.The 68-year-old singer - who penned a track called 'When I'm Sixty-Four' with his former band The Beatles - still... more info

Guardian Music — Two beautiful compilations from Soundway revive the spaced-out funk of 70s west Africa and the psychedelic beat of Colombia's sound systemsNext month, Soundway Records, a small, independent British label, releases its latest compilation, a two-CD (or... more info

Altsounds — Renowned artist, Peter Blake, has joined forces with the National Trust for this year's Glastonbury Festival (23 – 27 June). Best-known for his design for the Beatles' 'Sgt Pepper' album cover, Peter Blake has created a unique artwo... more info

Undercover, Australia — Sir Paul McCartney has commented that many movies about The Beatles including the recent Nowhere Boy are not accurate. more info

NME — Covers band in jokey mood for Acoustic Tent gig more info

Guardian Music — Vinyl may have been overtaken by CDs and downloads but it still has passionate fans, with the last major plant in the UK pressing about 25,000 records a week on its 40-year-old pressesForty-year-old record presses, installed by EMI in the 70s vinyl h... more info

The Telegraph — John Preston reviews the week on TV including BBC Four documentary A Century of Fatherhood, Lennon Naked - the BBC Four drama about a pivotal period in the Beatles star John Lennon's life - and the new BBC Three adult puppet comedy Mongrels. more info