The “healthy young apes”, breaking through

Reissue of early 90s lo-fi classic, by former Galaxie 500 members

The Sound of The Smiths for 10 per cent less!

I must admit a line in the press release reeled me into this one. Jesca Hoop, originally from California, worked “for five years as nanny to the children of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan. ‘Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night,’ Waits reckons.

Portraits by Jerry Schatzberg go on show in the UK this month

Organisers still want to expand the event's capacity

It's a collaboration with German band Tortuga Bar

The follow-up to Magic set for release in the New Year

And on we go with the judges' discussions. Today: The Felice Brothers. Tomorrow: Fleet Foxes.

A strange moment, on Friday night. Sitting somewhere quite close to the roof of the O2 Arena, it seems to me as if several thousand people are singing, simultaneously, in a scarcely-audible whisper. Onstage, Leonard Cohen and his extraordinary band are playing “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye”, with a softness, precision and clarity that I can rarely recall hearing at an arena show.