Guardian Music — A reader takes a trip through your suggestions, with Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney and the McGarrigle sisters making the listHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week.... more info

Guardian Music — The singer-songwriter chooses some of his favourite German jazz, 70s folk music and French soundtrack cutsI found out about Judee Sill through the Radio 4 show The Lost Genius of Judee Sill, and instantly fell in love with her music and her world. Th... more info

Guardian Music — You can't out-synth Jean Michel Jarre. So Metronomy don't try on this cover for Late Night Tales For their forthcoming Late Night Tales compilation, Metronomy assembled a typically eclectic selection of their favourite songs and artists, from Autechr... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Sean Michaels recalls stumbling over a melancholy masterpiece in the depths of the Canadian winterIn 2001, I was 19 and melancholy. It was winter in Montreal, my first year away from home, my firs... more info

Song, by Toad —  I absolutely love demos.  You should know this by now of course, not least because I have spent the last year endlessly rattling on about music, even if it wasn’t a demo in the first place, has been brutally re-engineered to make damn sure it so... more info

Guardian Music — Linda Thompson recalls the extraordinary musical talent and wit of her friend, the Canadian musician Kate McGarrigle, who died of cancer on 18 January, aged 63.Must buy a McDonald's franchise… that was my initial thought on hearing Kate and Anna Mc... more info

Guardian Music — Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy are part of British folk music royalty, and as they release their first album as a mother-and-daughter duo, they talk to Jude RogersIt's a Saturday morning in Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, and the sun shines thr... more info

Guardian Music — A clan who channel their dysfunction into songThere has perhaps been no family in the history of popular music more vocal about its glorious dysfunction than the Wainwright/McGarrigles. Loudon, Kate, Martha and Rufus are the bards of kith and kin, th... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThere have now been four ­successful television series of ­Transatlantic ­Sessions, filmed in ­Scotland and bringing ­together Celtic and American musicians. The project has resulted in a series of CDs and DV... more info

Guardian Music — Folk singer and songwriter at the heart of an innovative music-making familyKate McGarrigle, who has died aged 63, was a luminous singer and songwriter whose partnership with her sister Anna produced some of the most attractive and memorable music to... more info