Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offPeggy Lee Sans Souci Having heard this sung by Michelle Dockery at the Barbican's Jazz Voice gig last week, I was charmed enough to seek out the original. And what a thing i... more info

Guardian Music — Its writer refused to record it. Pat Boone almost killed it. Then it was resurrected as a B-side to an indie prestige project. Martin Aston on how Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren became a modern classicIt's a Jim'll Fix It fantasy for any musical o... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Tim Buckley’s, self-titled, 1966 debut marks the latest entry in the Rhino Handmade series. I have an extra copy to send to an AD reader.  The two-disc set includes both the stereo and mono versions of the debut, plus a second disc of nearly two d... more info

Guardian Music — Everything But the Girl's Ben Watt needed a breakthrough act; Flowers and Sea Creatures needed a label. A skipping CD brought them togetherOn the night of Monday 8 August, Ben Watt went to bed worrying that rioters might break into the Camden office ... more info

Guardian Music — Gareth Daley is the first Brit-soul boy contender with serious commercial potential since Mick HucknallHometown: Manchester.The lineup: Gareth Daley (vocals, music).The background: We might as well get the comparisons out the way: he's a blue-eyed so... more info

Guardian Music — Guardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Bob Stanley celebrates the godlike genius of Scott WalkerWhen this album was released in 1981, Scott Walker's solo career had almost be... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — There are three flicks about dreamboat musician Jeff Buckley currently in the works (we wrote about them all here), and the first photos from Greetings from Tim Buckley, the film starring Penn Badgley, have hit the web. I'm trying to get on board wit... more info

Stereogum — So one photo from one of the two Jeff Buckley biopics is now circulating online. That’s it above. As you can see it’s from the Buckley-pic starring Dan Humphrey from Gossip Girl, not the one starring Reeve Carney from Broadway’s Spider-Man. To ... more info

Perez Hilton — Uh-oh, Penn Badgley! Looks like you've got some competition! The actor has been tapped for a lead role in the in-development Jeff Buckley biopic, Greetings from Tim Buckley, but apparently, he'll be facing another film focusing on the life of the lat... more info

Guardian Music — Fatima Al Qadiri pays haunting homage to the Islamic songs of her childhood by tweaking them beyond all recognitionHometown: New York.The lineup: Fatima Al Qadiri (vocals, music, production).The background: "Ay shay", according to the urban dictionar... more info