Sweeping The Nation — Marika Hackman There's been talk, with her Marlingish folk bent and fashion world credentials, that the 21 year old singer-songwriter could become something big, but we reckon she (and us) would be happier with the kind of music career trajector... more info

Topix — A group of veteran rock stars from Roxy Music, The Smiths, Suede and Supergrass have teamed up to form a new supergroup for a TV drama series. more info

Starpulse — Former Roxy Music star Bryan Ferry has recorded a cover of Amy Winehouse's Back To Black for director Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby soundtrack sequel. Ferry reworked the late singer's classic tr... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Brooklyn based singer and guitarist Andee Blacksugar is the missing link between early Roxy Music, Talking Heads and Prince, a versatilel player who hands out the goodies from his impressive bag of six string tricks one at the time. Funky electro d... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Plastic Utopia, the debut single by Brooklyn trio Japan Soul, is smooth as silk. It's the kind of blue-eyed soul that was en vogue in the early Eighties when bands like Spandau Ballet and Roxy Music in their Avalon phase ruled the airwaves. Cent... more info

Consequence of Sound — Plus, a 19th century folk tune! more info

The Independent — The album cover is dead, Peter Saville famously declared, killed by the iPod and MP3 generation. Fortunately, Saville, the creator of celebrated covers for artists as varied as Joy Division, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel and Pulp, was hotter on his albu... more info

Guardian Music — (BMG)It is sometimes said that a really good song will survive, even thrive, with a radical rearrangement. It's a flawed argument, but one to which albums such as The Jazz Age add seductive heft. Here are 13 classic tunes from the Roxy Music and Brya... more info

Guardian Music — (BMG)Bryan Ferry has recreated Roxy Music's hits as languid instrumentals for a replica 1920s jazz band – but this is more than a tourist-trip to Gatsby-land. Ferry the jazz fan and his pianist Colin Good have mixed the soulful glide of the 1927 Du... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Roxy Music man has rerecorded some of his biggest hits in a 20s jazz style with the Bryan Ferry Orchestra. Fans of Bryan Ferry well know that while he's often looked like a vision from the future – and sounded like it too, especially with... more info