Guardian Music — To accompany our Edinburgh city guide, crime writer Ian Rankin has picked 10 tunes that soundtrack his home town, from the Bay City Rollers to the Proclaimers via the Rezillos and Iggy Pop• As featured in our Edinburgh city guideJosef K – It's Ki... more info

The Telegraph — An Appointment With Mr Yeats is a fabulous feast of words and music. more info

The Telegraph — Mike Scott tells Neil McCormick how the Waterboys' new album marries the work of the great Irish poet to epic Celtic rock and roll more info

Guardian Music — The success of Ramsbottom's first music festival has left many ready for more - including guest blogger Claire Cunningham who sampled the folk delightsThe sky was dark, the rain came and went, but the closing evening of Ramsbottom's new boutique fest... more info

DrownedInSound — An Appointment… continues in the vein of The Waterboys' last album proper, The Book of Lightning, in providing intermittent moments of lucid quality amid oodles of overwrought, forgettable filler. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com ... more info

Scotsman.com — The Waterboys: An Appointment with Mr Yeats Proper, £12.99 **** more info

Totally Fuzzy — Mike Scott returns with a new Waterboys album, An Appointment with Mr Yeats. He describes it as a culmination of a 20-year-old dream to "recontextualise the work of Ireland's most venerated poet, WB Yeats, by singing his words against a backdrop... more info

Guardian Music — Listen to the Waterboys' An Appointment with Mr Yeats and read Mike Scott's track-by-track guide. Better still, the man himself will discuss it in the comments section from 3pm today ...Mike Scott returns with a new Waterboys album, An Appointment wi... more info

Guardian Music — For almost 30 years, screenwriter Richard Curtis has worshipped Mike Scott of the Waterboys. He has read out his lyrics at funerals, he plays This Is The Sea to feel restored – and he cries every time he hears The Whole of The MoonIt's pouring with... more info

DrownedInSound — Like nu-gaze's answer to The Waterboys, I Break Horses' debut is, first and foremost, resounding proof that subtle beauty doesn’t have to be self-defeating, drippy or retiring. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info