Bradley's Almanac — Greetings, and happy official-start-of-the-holidays, dear readers. All 12 of you. I keed, I keed... there are at least a couple dozen of you out there, I'm sure. One of these days I'll check my stats and find out.I've got plenty of things in my life ... more info

Guardian Music — Catch up with the last seven days in the world of musicThis week's most popular stories1. Chris Brown's albums sabotaged with protest stickersIn the wake of the outcry over the singer's tattoo, protesters are putting warning stickers on his CDs that ... more info

Guardian Music — Singer to produce and perform on 'punker'-sounding record that will see Evan Dando reunite with co-founder Ben DeilyLemonheads co-founders Evan Dando and Ben Deily are reuniting for the band's forthcoming album, and they've enlisted a new member – ... more info

ContactMusic — Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams has joined Evan Dando's The Lemonheads as the group's new drummer.The New York, New York hitmaker will also produce the... more info

Consequence of Sound — Juliana Hatfield and Ben Deily also involved. more info

Consequence of Sound — "Hatfield and Dando sitting in a tree..." more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Juliana Hatfield at The Bell House, April 2011 (more by Graeme Flegenheimer) The Psychedelic Furs have been touring all year, and having already stopped in the NYC area on two separate occasions this year, they'll be returning on their fall... more info

Guardian Music — Robin Mahoney's retooled version of his 1996 documentary buys into the Glasto mythology, tie-dye and allRobin Mahoney's retooled version of his 1996 documentary strolls in like the last, straggling remnant from the furthest field on the site. It come... more info

Guardian Music — Brudenell Social Club, LeedsThe apparent end of Sonic Youth has produced the unlikely emergence of the band's co-founder as a sweetly tuneful rocker. After 30 years crafting walls of detuned guitar noise with the New York punk provocateurs, Lee Ranal... more info

Totally Fuzzy — "These things happen / We were children in the mid-'90s," Johnny Lloyd coos on the second track of Tribes' forthcoming full-length debut. The London rockers unabashedly borrow from the skewed harmonies and loud-soft-loud dynamics of Pixies, ... more info