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Apart from a few Beach Boys and Kosmische things I picked up in America in the early ‘90s, I’ve never been much of a bootleg collector; never had the time, I guess, with so much legitimately released music to get hooked on. As a consequence, my knowledge of Neil Young’s “Chrome Dreams” was limited to hazy memories from rush-reading Jimmy McDonough’s “Shakey” until news of “Chrome Dreams II” broke a few weeks ago.

'Exodus' - style crossover from world music superstar

Art-noise godfather becomes an acoustic pop troubadour

Savage satire – and top tunes – from Sheffield motormouth

Latest additions to play alongside Madness and Chemical Brothers

The grungers first DVD since 2003's 'Live At The Garden'

Looks like I'm going to be resorting to a few playlists rather than full blogs this week. An exciting combination of deadlines and emergency dental work, and the distraction this afternoon of a man in a very good gorilla suit running around the office (blame NME) mean I haven't much time at the moment. But I'm still simultaneously working my way through the pile of new CDs that amassed while I was on vacation. Here, then, is what we've played thus far today:

Former Soft Machine man returns – with friends new and old

Sample-filled sequel. If it ain’t broke…

Banshee-free and Creature-less but still the outsider...