Galaxie 500

Folksy beauty from understated singer-songwriter and one-time Smog collaborator

Your guide to our latest free CD, bringing together 15 tracks of the month's best new music

Enigmatic French-Canadian, reconfiguring folk songs and Dorothy Parker poems

Plus Skullcrusher, Uwade and Mess Esque

These are the 50 best LPs that came out this year

David Bowie, Pink Floyd, REM, The Waterboys, Led Zeppelin, Modern Nature, Dean Wareham and The Beatles

Along with releases by Brian Eno, Paul McCartney, The The, Fela Kuti, U2, Slint, Kraftwerk and many more

Hypnotic third from Mazzy Star and MBV alumni

An all-star cast pick The Boss' best moments…

Rough Trade Shops is releasing a compilation album of the best music released by the indie label over the past 40 years. Entitled Recorded At The Automat: The Best of Rough Trade Records, the album, which is released March 23, will cover the early years of Rough Trade, when Geoff Travis first started the label in 1978, later to be joined by Jeannette Lee. It includes the likes of Swell Maps, Robert Wyatt, The Fall, The Raincoats, The Smiths, The Strokes, the Libertines, Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens.