Clock-stopping, pulse-raising mega-pop

New York-out-of-Dublin singer-songwriter breaks long silence

Brilliant Latin folktronica from Argentine ex-comic

First new material in eight years from heartland rockers

Official bootleg from Brooklyn's big-hearted punk poet

More life after the blessed Ian Dury...

Genius signs off with his first duets album alongside Elton, Norah Jones et al

Latest soppy Kate Hudson vehicle— you have to wonder what her Black Crowes hubby makes of it all— features an eclectic pop selection, with a few little smashers more by accident than design. Devo's "Whip It" and Liz Phair's "Extraordinary" are about as daring as it gets, while there are decent if overtly radio-friendly offerings from John Hiatt and Joan Osborne, plus the resurrected Simon & Garfunkel's too-cute-to-shoot "At The Zoo".

Return after eight years' silence from '60s legend

Welsh shellsuit devotees marry scatological humour to hip hop