Guardian Music — In today's Guardian Film Show, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard give their verdicts on slick hitman thriller Killing Them Softly and Ken Loach's comedy The Angels' Share, both in competition at Cannes. And from the Un Certain Regard se... more info

Guardian Music — Listen to 34 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance PactClick the play button to listen to individual songs, right click on the song title to download an MP3, or grab a zip file of the who... more info

Guardian Music — Former Supergrass singer Gaz Coombes brings his new band into the Guardian's studioBen KapeAlex HealeyLindsay PoultonAlice SalfieldElliot Smith more info

Impose Magazine — I first developed a vicious bout of Weisman Fever sometime last year with the songwriter's instant-classic Transparency* (though I seriously doubt many other bloggers/listeners would claim such a charge against the gauntlet of a double-disc. Unab... more info

DrownedInSound — 15 classic albums from the year of our Lord, 1997 - yeah, it was a good one. Included: Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, Spiritualized, Wu-Tang Clan, Mansun, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Company Flow and some band called Radiohead. Read the f... more info

DrownedInSound — Fans of Elliott Smith, Perfume Genius, Josh T. Pearson and/or Damien Rice, you will want to be clicking play on this... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Chris Isaak visits the Guardian studios to play a exclusive live version of Live It Up, the single from his new album Beyond the SunBen KapeAndy GallagherElliot SmithNoah Payne-Frank more info

Guardian Music — The South By Southwest music festival kicks off in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, promising a familiar array of big names, little names and names you will never remember when you've sobered upEven if you're not heading to SXSW, here are 20 acts those on ... more info

Guardian Music — New York-based indie-rock band Real Estate visit the Guardian studio to play an exclusive live version of their single 'It's Real', taken from their second studio album DaysBen KapeAndy GallagherEkaterina OchagaviaElliot Smith more info

Guardian Music — After a burst of success in 2007, French indie popster Soko shut down her MySpace page and disappeared. Clare Considine welcomes her resurrectionSoko is "lovesick". She is head over heels, crazy in love with her new, as yet unidentified London boyfr... more info