Undercover, Australia — Peter Quaife, the original bass player for The Kinks, has died at the age of 66. more info

Pitchfork — Rated R, the 2000 sophomore album from Queens of the Stone Age, was the moment QOTSA stopped being the Kyuss guys' new band and started becoming the heaving, spitting, strutting monster we know today. The band started out opening track "Feel Good ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — the lodger said... Simon, simon and Garfunkel(yest that is right)live on TV 1968 http://gasfoodandlodging.blogspot.com Ice said... W.A. Mozart: The Works for Flute - Various Artists - 2 CDs - 1994. http://classiclibrary.blogspot.com Many Thanks Fuzz... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonIt has taken Meltdown curator Richard Thompson most of his career to think of himself as a showman – for a long time he was happy to let his mesmerising guitar do his talking – but his 1,000 Years of Popular Music provi... more info

Totally Fuzzy — -nits- said... 3t-brotherhood (1995) the jackson genes are strong and the brothers of 3t, tito jackson's sons, are proof positive. jamie foxx-peep this (1994) before jamie foxx's 'intuition' and 'unpredictable', there was 'peep this'; jamie's debut ... more info

Guardian Music — Johnny Marr recalls the music, others the good times. But for all, there's no festival quite like GlastonburyJohnny Marr46, the SmithsWhen the Smiths played Glastonbury in 1984, we were slightly out of our element. Previously, we'd always played to m... more info

Guardian Music — The first Glastonbury festival attracted 1,500 hippies. Now, 40 years on, it is bigger than ever. So what is the secret of its success?Worthy Farm lies between two limestone ridges on the southern tip of the Mendip Hills, six miles east of Glastonbu... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Thomas said... This Week's Top 5 Most Played Songs! 1. School of Seven Bells - Babelonia 2. Toro Y Moi - Leave Everywhere 3. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 4. Dirty Three & Cat Power - Great Waves 5. OMD - Sister Marie Says (demo) http://www.thefront... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Shearwater - Castaways (MP3) Jonathan Meiburg @ All Points West 2009 (more by Chris La Putt) Wye Oak's Andy Stack @ Pianos - BV CMJ 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) Shearwater, who released their The Golden Archipelago LP... more info

The Vinyl Villain — “LED WHO”?National Health glasses, unruly flaming hair, masses of freckles and braces on my teeth.No I didn’t have a great deal going for me as a teenager.But what I did have was an insane sense of humour, (much needed against the taunts my loo... more info