'Afrique Victime' is the new, awesome album by the Touareg guitarist Mdou Moctar who made a list of albums, artists, songs and styles that made him the musician he is now. The Quietus assembled the list, which includes Van Halen, Abdallah Oumbadogou ("the founder, the source of my music"), Khaira Arby ("a golden voice"), Malam Maman Barka ("insanely good, totally insane"), Bob Marley ("a revolutionary and he’s someone who loved peace"), Tinariwen ("you have to write things to encourage people").

Two of Kurt Cobain’s smashed Fender guitars sold for a combined $281,600 at an auction, Rolling Stone reports. Bob Marley’s first guitar earned $153,600 at Icons & Idols Trilogy: Rock ‘n’ Roll Auction, while three guitars once belonging to the late Eddie Van Halen have sold for a combined $422,000. The instruments were sold as part of a celebrity auction where nearly 900 items were offered, including items once owned by Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, and more.

Witnessing police politely dealing with the crowd gathered for the Bob Marley 75 celebration in front of Marley museum in uptown Kingston (the house where he lived) offered a strange disconnect, the Guardian reports from Jamaica's capital on what would have been Marley's 75th birthday - back in the 1970s their presence outside the gates would have suggested a raid. This February, and every other month, for that fact, the museum is the Jamaican capital’s hottest tourist ticket, drawing more than 60,000 visitors a year. His message and mystique have mobilised a peaceful army of international followers, such as those holidaymakers venturing where few wealthy Kingstonians go. Changes would have happened without him, but Marley was there to guide them...

Created by French artists Octave Marsal and Theo De Gueltzl, the animated 'Redemption Song' clip features nearly 3,000 original drawings of Jamaican imagery that represent the song’s message of emancipation. The clip is the first installment of “Marley75”, a year-long celebration of Bob Marley's birthday, who would have turned 75 years February 6. Upcoming YouTube videos of previously unreleased material will be dropped throughout the year, encompassing music, art, photography and more.

The best selling vinyl album in the 2010s in the USA was 'Abbey Road' by the Beatles, selling in 558,000 copies. In fact, all the biggest vinyl albums of the past 10 years are older performers like Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Miles Davis... Only two albums actually released in the 2010s appear on the list: the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' soundtrack - which is entirely comprised of songs released in the ’60s and ’70s, and Lana Del Rey’s 'Born to Die'. The only album from the noughties on the list is Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black'. No album from the 1990s on the list.

Michael Jackson has topped Forbes’ 2019 list of highest earning dead celebrities after his estate made over £46 million in the last 12 months. Jackson’s streaming numbers “surged” to “2.1 billion US spins, up from 1.8 billion a year ago”. It's his seventh year in a row on top of this list. Elvis Presley came in […]

Lost live recordings of a Bob Marley gig have been found in a London hotel basement and are now heading to auction. The 10 analog tapes, which were found by chance after spending 40 years in a damp hotel cellar in a hotel in Little Venice, west London, suffered water damage and mold. However, they […]

Last year there were 16.8 million vinyl albums sold in USA, up 14.6 percent from 2017., marking the 13th consecutive year of growth for the format. 16.8 million is also a new yearly high for vinyl album sales since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. Ten biggest selling vinyls were 'Guardians of the Galaxy' […]