Chan Marshall's sultry sequel to The Covers Record

The trio bring acrobatics, glitter and fire to North West London

Dazzling heartache from sometime Broken Social Scenester

Thanks for your latest bunch of messages, especially the people who said kind things about my David Ackles blog the other day. Good to see more love for Bill Fay, too: we were playing his first album the other day. "Everyone should love David Ackles - just like everyone shoud love Bill Fay," writes Baptiste. "It takes time for writers like them to get some kind of public acknowledgement. I mean: why? Is Bill Fay's "Be Not So Fearful" such a difficult song? Is "Down River" a 30 minutes white noise jam?

Nina Simone to Public Enemy portrayed by Steve Double

Cold War Kids' guitarist Jonnie Russell tells us what to expect from the LA groups' debut 'Robbers & Cowards

Remastered version of 1994 album with second CD of outtakes/rarities and DVD

Lou Reed's favourite trans-gender chamber-pop troupe's debut

The monumental songwriting prowess of Jacques Brel has traditionally been far too clever for the non-French-speaking masses to care. Even in English. According to the sophisticated French-speaking masses, the translations are a travesty. Not always so. In the devoted, talented hands of Elvis lyricist Mort Shuman, adaptor of the bulk of the songs on this compilation, they pack a heavyweight lyrical punch rarely experienced in the comparatively feeble 'rock' lexicon.

Re-emergence of jazz-folk classic from Chicago tunesmith