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A collection of dyed-in-the-wool misfits, The Hoovers, head cross-country for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant...

Weller joins Carl Barat and Co onstage for Jam classic

Follow-up, funnily enough, to 2003’s Want One. Loudon’s boy’s fourth for DreamWorks.

Stipe and co’s major label years, now repackaged with bonus DVD-audio discs and making-of documentaries

REM's frontman backstage in Basle on their European tour, 2004

First UK gig in over 20 years from the Felix and Oscar of dream-folk

Monochrome minimalists go Technicolor, with startling results Anyone familiar with 2002's Everybody Makes Mistakes could be forgiven for thinking they'd stumbled on the wrong band here. If that album was austere—a kind of aural porcelain—then Shearwater's third is a riot of movement and colour. They remain, in parts, as sombre-still as American Music Club, but now add more than a dash of Spirit Of Eden-Talk Talk and a whole heap of '70s FM pop. Soft-rock chamber music, if you will.

Roundup of Texan troubadour's seminal recordings

The most important body of work in mainstream '70s pop/rock is given the redux treatment to remind us why Buckingham and Nicks still matter

Seattle songstress' magnificent fourth album finds her deep in fire and ice