Guardian Music — (STRANGE FEELING)The Christmas album, once among pop's least enticing concepts, has undergone a rebirth in recent years, with Glasvegas, Low and Sufjan Stevens all contributing festive LPs. Tracey Thorn's fourth solo set, though, is the best of the b... more info

Guardian Music — Just hear those sleigh bells jinglin', ring-ting-tinglin'! It's Christmas! All right, it's September. But it's sort of nearly Christmas, so have a sample of a festive album on us Reading on mobile? Listen hereWhen Tracey Thorn first announced details... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBerlin-based electronic composer/performer Janine Rostron – AKA Planningtorock – opens her Meltdown performance with Purcell's baroque fragment Music for a While, which promises that music "shall all your cares beguile... more info

ContactMusic — Singer Tracey Thorn has teamed up with former Everything But The Girl bandmate and Scritti Politti star Green Gartside to record her first Christmas album Tinsel and Lights will feature covers of non-traditional festive tunes by the White Stripes Suf... more info

Guardian Music — Captain's Rest, GlasgowWithin the world of DC Comics, the home of Batman and Wonder Woman, there are 52 alternate realities, including one in which Superman is both black and the president of the US. Perhaps that's also the universe where Ramona Gonz... more info

Guardian Music — Nearly 30 years after their debut album, Everything But the Girl reveal why they've decided to revisit their pastMonday morning in Camden Town, north London. Rain slicks the market's cobbled yard, drenching the hemp sellers and noodle stalls. And Tra... more info

Guardian Music — Just when you thought there could be no more good rock autobiographies, some of the biggest icons in music are willing to set the record straightI love a good rock autobiography. Actually, I love a bad rock autobiography, too: even a book that's gua... more info

Stereogum — Everything But The Girl principal members Tracy Thorn and Ben Watt reunited recently to record a cover of the xx’s “Night Time” that the xx had commissioned for a compilation. Though that compilation never turned out, the cover surfaced today a... 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 — A mixed bag for you in this week's programme. Ben Beaumont-Thomas speaks to singer-songwriter Kurt Vile about his recent album Smoke Ring for My Halo, the recurrent themes in his music and where his name comes from.Brian Shimkovitz of the Awesome Tap... more info