Guardian Music — When it comes to picking songs about addresses, you know where it's atLocation, location, location … last week we asked for your favourite songs about addresses. Musicians and songwriters have projected drama and mystery on to various buildings, or... more info

Guardian Music — Forget Madonna, the real queen of 80s pop was the majestic, magnificent Cyndi LauperThe adorably bonkers Cyndi Lauper is surely one of pop music's most underrated singers, largely because of who she's not. Ever since she emerged from the New York sce... more info

Guardian Music — Brighton AudioOn record, Other Lives have a spectacularly luscious and vivid sound: almost every rave review of their second album, Tamer Animals, reached for the adjective "cinematic" to describe the richness of its arrangements. It's remarkable stu... more info

Guardian Music — From the groundlings to the gods, your songs about the stage took in all aspects of treading the boards"The man that hath no music in himself/ Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds/ Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils." The Merchant o... more info

Guardian Music — (Columbia)Kasabian have trumpeted their fourth album with the usual eyebrow-raising chutzpah about it being a classic, but there's no denying the band have expanded their sound ever further from its lad-rock roots. There's a flamenco feel to many of ... more info

Guardian Music — Distance in song is measured in the hours from your lover's arms, in the cities that pass and the emptiness you leave behindI suppose it was the Proclaimers who began it. It was the summer of 1988, and for weeks they seemed to be everywhere, two gaw... more info

Popdose — AM Gold: 1964 beckons! Enjoy the Supremes and the Zombies! Make it through Gene Pitney! more info

Popdose — The second installment of Digging for Gold explores more of 1962's hippest tunes. And Gene Pitney. more info

Guardian Music — Songs for kiddywinks often perform the basic function of getting them to shut up and go to sleep. Others go beyond the call of duty to entertain, challenge and informThe best children's music has to withstand extreme repetition, since kids insist on ... more info

Guardian Music — Last week was all about comebacks. Now we make a slight return to the topic of bicycles, but this time with an added engineLadies and gentlemen of the RR jury, I present to you the case for the defence in the matter of "readers recommend comeback son... more info