Plus band Buster Shuffle record song to highlight threatened venue's plight

How to find a way through the arcane catalogue of the Sun City Girls? Last time I tried to count, there seemed to be around 60-odd releases, mostly rare as hen’s teeth, compounding the mythology of the band as among the most challenging and elusive of the past 20 or 30 years. Now, some three years after the death of Charles Gocher, there’s one last unexpected SCG album, and with characteristically perverse logic, expert word is that it may be their most accessible.

All-star cast team up for silent single

Libertines man prepares cufflinks, rings and watch chains

Rolling Stones guitarist lays into bandmate

A fairly inhospitable place to be on a Sunday night: just on the edge of the City, near Old Street roundabout, in the cellar of what used to be an almost permanently empty Chinese restaurant. This is the venue for, I think, only the second London show by Emeralds, a night subtitled “A Brave New World In Sound”.

Audio-sculpture hits smartphones

It'll be released in the first half of 2011 according to the band

He'll team up with a host of new talent

From the mean streets of Nottingham, two formative Shane Meadows shorts from ’95 and ’96...