Eugene Hutz takes time out from film-making with Madonna

With the next issue out of the way, we had a fairly constructive bash through a backlog of new releases today, hence not much here has figured on previous playlists. As usual, please let me know what you've been listening to: further to the Cave Singers tip I mentioned the other day, I've been quite taken with Health, who cropped up in one of your posts the other day.

The hotly-tipped soul singer will celebrate her new album release

Heavy trip continues for magnificent Canadian band

Chan Marshall's sultry sequel to The Covers Record

The label also unveils plans to allow companies to sponsor musicians

The drummer joins Jones' new band Carbon/Silicon onstage

Some of the star's best TV performances will soon be available

Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons are also nominated at the event's launch

We were listening to the new Elbow album this morning when the first line of Track Four stood out. “I’ve been working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce,” sings Guy Garvey over a ratchety chaingang rhythm, one of those industrial-propulsive beats with which Elbow pepper their Floydian/Talk Talk reveries. Then a crisply distorted guitar cuts through it; far too controlled to be grungy, exactly, but endemic of the way this largely excellent band manage to mix up the grandiose and ethereal with something that’s much more earthy and humane.