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Find out who will be playing with Yeasayer next week

The Oscar and Grammy winning soul legend has passed away, aged 65

I’m not, as a rule, fixated on the idea of ‘summer’ and ‘winter’ music, but still, the arrival of the third Brightblack Morning Light album last Friday was incredibly well-timed. I can’t think of a band who make such profoundly horizontal music, who create a soundtrack for being happily paralysed by extreme heat. Or, I suppose, by other stuff.

Rare live performances on a DVD and a new band autobiography coming too

Brooklyn heroes confirmed for August 20

Thanks to everyone who’s submitted their lists in response to the Best Records Of 2008 brainstorm from last week. Some excellent albums rising to the surface, and it’s especially nice to see love for No Age, Fleet Foxes and Elbow, three records which narrowly missed my original cut.

Elliptical, euphoric and "staggeringly good" says Allan Jones, plus a Q&A with Craig Finn

Tribute to Joy Division singer goes missing from Macclesfield graveyard

Enlightening visual history of an often-inscrutable band

New album narrated by “arachnophobic psychopath”