Guardian Music — The Midas touch was on display with this week's topicLast week, with a nod to the London 2012 Olympics, we asked you to nominate your favourite songs about gold, with the glittering prize of inclusion in this playlist enough to get the RR faithful su... more info

Prefix — With a lead synth line that sounds like Talking Heads's "This Must Be the Place" washed over with liquid graphite, ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media/black-marble/a-great-design/67298/ more info

Guardian Music — These medieval babes mix organic and electronic sounds to create pagan pop and dark madrigalsReading on mobile? Click here to listenHometown: Liverpool.The lineup: Rebecca Hawley (vocals, keyboards), Emily Lansley (vocals, guitar) and Lucy Mercer (vo... more info

melophobe — Some will find this overlong and excessively layered—all those strings, horns, choirs, drums, and feedback squalls. Me, I enjoyed peeling back Spiritualized’s onion skins of space rock and black gospel, bound together by Jason Pierce’s weary vo... more info

Guardian Music — Jonathan Lethem's exploration of Talking Heads' extraordinary third album is stylish and illuminating"At the peak, in 1980 or 1981, my identification was so complete that I might have wished to wear the album Fear of Music in place of my head so as t... more info

Guardian Music — Each week we invite someone to share with us some of the songs they've been listening to recently. Today's selection features Ten Benson, Tight Fit and Half Man Half BiscuitThis week's playlist is by Paul Jenkins, a writer from Penarth who writes "in... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Uh huh, it’s gonna be that kind of party: Staple Stingers ’85 rundown of Talking Heads’ “Slippery People” — the club mix. While Pops is obviously the man here – his vocals leading the call and response – it’s Mavis, particularly her... more info

Guardian Music — There's tension, fear and uncertainty in this young five-piece's songs, enough to soothe the most extreme case of RagsThere's a weird feeling in the air. Maybe tonight's supermoon is to blame, or maybe it's the presence of the man in the pub who's ma... more info

Guardian Music — Former Talking Heads frontman teams up with singer-songwriter on forthcoming album Love This GiantDavid Byrne and St Vincent have teamed up for a new album and tour.The former Talking Heads frontman has spent the last two years making Love This Giant... more info

Guardian Music — Brudenell Social Club, LeedsThe apparent end of Sonic Youth has produced the unlikely emergence of the band's co-founder as a sweetly tuneful rocker. After 30 years crafting walls of detuned guitar noise with the New York punk provocateurs, Lee Ranal... more info