Core News — “Stuart Maconie travels to the furthest flung corners of left-field music to create a playlist that makes you rock back on your heels with the sounds of newness and difference. This week we have music from John Maus, Focus and Mary Epworth. And Stu... more info

Said the Gramophone — (photo source) Durutti Column - "Sketch for Summer" [Buy] Weird, my computer couldn't get on certain websites. I could log into facebook and gmail but I couldn't get on STG. I couldn't log into my bank site. Maybe parental... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — [The ever so brilliant Andreas Söderström channeled Vini Reilly on "Dreams." -- Victoria] more info

78s — Von The Durutti Column wird ein “verschollenes” Album veröffentlicht. Die Lieder endlich in ihrem natürlichen Verbund zu hören ist eine Wohltat. Vini Reilly hat sich mit The Durutti Column durch neoklassische Kompositionen bis Post Punk und In... more info

Guardian Music — What do you get when you cross Sheffield and India? Blissful electronica matching rapture with dreadHometown: Sheffield.The lineup: Stewart Green (music, production).The background: Stewart Green is a young musician from Sheffield. Between Phillip Oa... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Elbow and Mr Scruff are among the Manchester artists who have donated their music to a new charity album.Their songs appear on the two-disc Thirty One collection in aid of CALM (the Campaign Against Living Miserabl... more info

Guardian Music — (Domino)If eyebrows were raised when guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones left the Coral in 2008, his debut album should send them into the stratosphere. A score inspired by Italo Calvino's novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveller is a long way from the Liverp... more info

Guardian Music — Beatles sleave featuring faces of music executives in place of the band's worth around £70,000, says music magazineA Beatles sleeve featuring the faces of music executives in place of the band has been declared the world's most valuable record cover... more info

XLR8R — For a 22-year-old, Briton Chris Ward, the lone soul behind Tropics, has absorbed his fair share of music made before he was even thought of. On Mouves, his second EP, a four-tracker for Planet Mu, Ward's brand of gauzy, post-rocky electronic pop... more info

Guardian Music — (LYF Recordings)After a year spent giving the industry and the curious the runaround with their high-profile air of mystery, there was always going to be an anticlimax when World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation were unmasked as denim-wearing Mancunia... more info