Guardian Music — How hypnosis, Debussy and Edith Piaf influenced one of 2011's great hopesHyptnotised by the new goth"I developed as a guitarist by trying to make my guitar sound like other instruments," says Anna Calvi, the gothically inclined singer-songwriter who ... more info

Guardian Music — (Third Man/Nonesuch)It's easy to feel that nostalgia in rock is now a bankrupt phenomenon, that we know everything there is to know about the past, that there is nothing left to salvage. This sensation occurs quite forcefully if you spot the music ma... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Watch the Chris Cape vide for Major Tom (yes, that's a David Bowie reference). Cape is a London based South African indie hip-hop pop artist who knows how to steal from the classics, add a bit of 21st Century spice and fluff, and turn it into a dan... more info

Totally Fuzzy — dj d said... Bananarama - I Can't Help It + 7″ Mix Album Version Extended Club Mix Hammond Version Excursion + Retro Link: Fleetwood Mac - The LEdge http://retroremixes.wordpress.com Dave Fireball said... As I just turned 30, here is the puremadtu... more info

Dlisted — David Bowie (64) Zahara Jolie-Pitt (6) Noah Cyrus (11) Gaby Hoffmann (29) Rachel Nichols (31) Sarah Polley (32) Amber Benson (34) Jenny Lewis (35) Sean Paul (38) Jason Giambi (40) R. Kelly (44) Michelle Forbes (46) Wolfgang Puck (62) Stephen Hawking... more info

Guardian Music — My Little Cheap Dictaphone bravely go where perhaps only David Bowie has gone before, in creating an entire album about a fellow performerEven if you've not heard of Belgian group My Little Cheap Dictaphone (and let's face it, etc), it's still highly... more info

Guardian Music — An Abba reunion may be on the cards, but I'd be content with Ms Fältskog's last collection, the best album of the noughtiesSo Agnetha Fältskog has said yes to an Abba reunion. Or at least she has intimated that she would not, in the right circumsta... more info

Guardian Music — Pulp singer delights his young audience at Royal Festival Hall with his narration of the Russian composer's children's storyBeing asked to narrate Peter and the Wolf is like being cast as Lear: the ultimate sign you have pricked a certain layer of th... more info

Totally Fuzzy — YankeeBoy said... Holiday Blahs Adrian Lloyd - Got A Little Woman Flop - I Told A Lie Bobby Womack - All Along The Watchtower The Cowsills - In Need of a Friend The Royal Jokers - You Tickle Me Baby The Split Ends - Rich With Nothing Buddy Covelle - ... more info

Guardian Music — In the last RR top appear in the paper, we return to the subject of the first column – changeSo here we are: the last ever Readers Recommend newspaper column. In tribute to the move over RR's new home at Guardian.co.uk/music, this week we have revi... more info