My Old Kentucky — It didn't make much more than ripple in the big pond, but Paul Burch and the WPA Ballclub's 2009 release, Still Your Man, was a dandy. Never one to rest on his laurels, Burch, perhaps better known in many circles as "one of those guys from Lambchop,"... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Camper Van Beethoven: 2009-12-28, San Francisco [mp3,ogg,flac] "New Roman Times" [mp3] Camper Van Beethoven: 2009-12-27, Petaluma [mp3,ogg,flac] "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon" [mp3] other Camper Van Beeth... more info

Guardian Music — Last week was all about songs that give you the shivers. This time we want tracks about famous people from the pastThe last week has been a sombre one, unavoidably so. It was touching too though, an example of why RR is a real community and one with ... more info

8/1 — 50 Sonic Youth - The Eternal49 Karen O and The Kids - Where the Wild things are48 Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane47 Florance and the Machine - Lungs46 Ebony Bones - Bones of My Bones45 Prodigy - Invaders Must Die44 Bibio - Ambivalence Av... more info

Live Daily — Jonathan Richman [ tickets ] will lay another tile in his long and winding road early this year when he heads out for a run of mid-winter headlining dates. The veteran singer/songwriter kicks off the outing Jan. 24 in Denton, TX, and will travel t... more info

Allmusic Blog — Before 2009 came to a close, the year that infamously took Michael Jackson also claimed the lives of several others. Among them were 45 year-old songwriter Vic Chesnutt, Avenged Sevenfold drummer Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan, former Birthday ... more info

Guardian Music — American singer-songwriter acclaimed for his raw, uncompromising lyricsThe singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, who has died aged 45 after an overdose of muscle relaxants, was a veteran presence in the independent, rather than the mainstream, music charts... more info

NME — Check out NME.COM's round-up of what's been going on in music over the festive period more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Online Athens remembers singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt. As part of the Telegraph's expat book club Neil Gaiman introduces his book, Neverwhere. Why am I an expat? Writers can write pretty much anywhere, and I was working for US publishers, being paid... more info

Guardian Music — I had been looking for a voice to capture how it felt to hear that Vic Chesnutt had died, when I realised that voice was his ownI first heard Vic Chesnutt one Saturday morning in Dublin, many years ago now. Lying in bed in early summer, gulls cawing ... more info