Jay Kay, the big-hatted funkstar and multi-million record selling lead singer of Jamiroquai, may have released his lowest-selling album to date in Rock Dust Light Star, but his trusted formula of rock, funk and touch of acid-jazz still packs out the 02 Arena, London's biggest venue, with ease.

The latest Brit School alumnus to be saddled with the weight of unfair expectations, Katy B blends R&B vocals with the dubstep arrangements of Geeneus, Zinc and Magnetic Man to create a distinctive homegrown UK club sound.

In the five years since Dynamite, electro and dubstep have made significant inroads into the dance-pop mainstream, which leaves an old-school full-band funk exercise like Rock Dust Light Star sounding more than a little dated.

Foreign Secretary William Hague has come in for a lot of stick for yet another hat-related fashion faux-pas.

By the late 1980s, hip-hop acts and producers such as DJ Jazzy Jeff, Marley Marl and A Tribe Called Quest had made the connection between jazz and rap. But the American MC Guru went further and helped fuse the two, first with Gang Starr, and most notably with his Jazzmatazz project.

There's nothing better, Pandora finds, than a bit of Kazakh sun at this time of year. Jonathan Aitken clearly agrees: he appears to be holidaying there as we speak. Indeed, we hear the one-time jailbird has been touring the country's penal institutions at the invitation of none other than the Kazakh leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

A chef who admitted damaging a Ferrari Enzo supercar belonging to Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay was jailed for 20 weeks today.

The father of an 11-year-old boy who was told that his son was not Jewish enough to be accepted at one of the country's leading Orthodox schools has lost his claim for unlawful discrimination.

OK, I get it, even though it sounds like bad Motown it's actually a clever-clever, 21st-century take on soul and funk music through the ages.

Eschewing the kind of cool style you might expect from their hip electro indie-pop music, the five musicians of Hot Chip take their pews behind their keyboards and guitars and play meticulously, like maths students at work. Each of the London-based quintet is a graduate (four from Oxbridge), and they neatly apply their brains to the music.