Young marble giants

These are the 50 best LPs that came out this year

Welsh psychedelia meets Los Angeles lo-fi

The event takes place on London's Southbank during August

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.

Sensual second proves even better than the first...

The National will curate the ATP festival at Butlin's Minehead, Somerset on December 7-9.

Rutles cover among rarities from '80s US daydream pop trio

Post-punk classics reworked as wine bar subversion