Everett True: Ever wondered what the Fab Four would sound like if they were still touring in 2009? Fortunately, a blogger who travelled to a parallel dimension has the answer ...

Everett True: It may not be as slick as the synth-pop of Little Boots and La Roux, but Micachu's mashed-up DIY sound is pure aural alchemy

Everett True: It wasn't that there was anything embarrassing about the Aussie post-punk band's comeback performance last week but … something just wasn't right

Everett True: The Japanese noise-rock duo's enchantments and incantations cast such a spell over audiences it's as though they are practising sonic witchcraft

Everett True Pram Town, the former Hefner singer's paean to his childhood surroundings, stirred the Essex boy in me

Everett True: The 18th birthday party of a Melbourne record label shows why the city is Australia's indie capital

Everett True: Down the Great Ocean Road, the summer landscape shares top billing with the unashamedly Australian Drones

Everett True: With Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes being praised as this year's top albums, it's like the 1960s all over again. Beards bloody everywhere! Folk musicians bloody everywhere!

Everett True: Soaring temperatures and the demands of my three-year-old mean that my favourite albums this year are on the softer side

Everett True: I know it's against everything I believe to be great about music, but I can't resist the lure of reliving the bands of my youth in concert

Everett True: Not only is Daniel a very talented singer and songwriter, but he's also a rather fine artist

Everett True: Music for the car and music for the house are completely different things. But for months, both were dictated by my three-year-old

Everett True: Bands such as Softboiled Eggies, Wet Dog and the Vivian Girls are the new rightful inheritors of the music from the 1980s underground

Everett True: Giant Sand's Howe Gelb is a sonic expeditionary for whom music is still a voyage of discovery - just don't chat to your mates during one of this gigs

Everett True: People can't stop talking about this brilliant, savage band. So why on earth did I miss their latest gig?

Everett True: Softboiled Eggies are a heartwarming LA duo who remind me of rainy Sunday afternoons in the early 80s

Everett True: For this week's blog, I thought I would take you on a tour of my home town, and a typical night spent looking for new music in bars and dives

Everett True: From Billboard writer to major label CEO, Danny Goldberg's fascinating biography details his encounters with some of rock'n'roll's greatest talents – Neil Young, Patti Smith, Kurt Cobain, and, er, Kiss?

I'm a fan of the Fall, but I've never wanted to discover more about the personalities behind the music. Who cares who's creating it so long as it's there?