Songs:Illinois — Namedropping Opal and Mazzy Star probably won’t get me very far with the younger generation but you can’t listen to Zera Marvel’s songs and not reference those bands. Another generation might point to Velvet Underground or before that Billie H... more info

Undercover, Australia — Perth band The Novocaines draws its inspiration from The Velvet Underground and The Stooges. more info

Guardian Music — AC/DC should be treated as a great rock band - not held, as they are by 'critics', on a scale between single-cell creatures and homo erectusNext week AC/DC return to these shores for their first UK gigs since a one-off in Hammersmith in 2003. They wi... more info

JamBase — The Shortwave Set Replica Sun Machine Available Now The Shortwave Set Sweet of sound, tart of lyric... besotted with the sun speckled '60s and bang up to date - Q [4/5] The Shortwave Set traveled from South East London to California on borrowed... more info

My Old Kentucky — San Diego's Crocodiles are about to release their debut album, Summer Of Hate on Fat Possum, and are out on a pretty extensive U.S. tour right now to promote it. The band draws comparisons to Jesus and Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 and ... more info

Said the Gramophone — Sister Suvi - "Golden". Spent some of yesterday with Merrill Garbus, the woman who is Tune-Yards and one third of Sister Suvi. We took our bikes to the quarry, threw on our walkmen, went down deep. In the gloom we listened to Billy Joel, Pavement, ... more info

8/1 — 8.5/1070'ler, 80,90'lar ellerinde piç olmuÅŸ. 2000'lere en demir geçiÅŸlerle eklemlemiÅŸler. The Horrors imaj mı, yanılsa mı diyalektiÄŸini yok ediyor. MaÅŸallah. Portishead adamı Geoff Barrow'un prodüktörlüğÃ... more info

Idolator — VH1's "Behind the Music" is coming back: The network has ordered 10 new episodes of the iconic show which originally ran from 1997 to 2006. Knowing not to mess with a good thing, the format will not change much, and Jim Forbes will be back as the sl... more info

Guardian Music — This week's batch of tunes finds Iggy Pop and Katy Perry reimagining themselves again, while Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody straps himself to a Saturn V and heads for the starsHatcham Social – Murder in the Dark The Velvet Underground? Echo and ... more info

Idolator — Hey, it's a list! Let's argue about it? Esquire has published an "unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative" rundown of 75 long-players that "every man should own" with the usual bite-sized commentary the magazine devotes to these sor... more info