With their fourth effort, Kaiser Chiefs are pioneering the music industry's latest attempt to revive the CD as a physical product: from a longlist of 20 songs on their website, you can choose your own tracklist and pick your own artwork.

Is Kaiser Chiefs' novel way of releasing their new CD a cynical marketing ploy, or a genuine attempt to engage with fans? By Elisa Bray and Charlotte Cripps

You'd think that the best way to reinvigorate a career slipping into the doldrums would be to focus on quality – so it's brave of Kaiser Chiefs to go the contrary route and opt for quantity instead, with the caveat that fans pick their 10 favourite tracks from the 20 offered online, abnegating to listeners decisions about sequencing and quality.

Their detractors claim that you couldn’t pay people to listen to a new Kaiser Chiefs record. That theory has been put to the test after the band invited fans to become retailers by creating “bespoke” versions of their new album and selling copies online.

Kaiser Chiefs have been working on guitar heavy new tracks for their comeback album.

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The Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has been branded a bigot after his entourage allegedly assaulted Bloc Party's Kele Okereke, in an "unprovoked and racist" attack at a music festival in Barcelona on Saturday.

Want world peace? Launch the ukes

Like its predecessor Tired of Hanging Around, The Zutons' difficult third album features another cast of flaky characters culled from the seedier corners of David McCabe's imagination, though the inevitable attrition means that none has quite the anthemic appeal of "Valerie". The closest they come here are "Always Right Behind You", an exercise in lolloping Seventies boogie-pop, and "Dirty Rat", an adulterer's mea culpa set to the first cousin of a Kaiser Chiefs melody; but neither quite repays one's curiosity in full.

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Rail chiefs were accused of "astonishing arrogance" yesterday after refusing to undertake a safety review of level crossings in the wake of the Ufton Nervet disaster.

HER soft voice was barely audible as she sang a favourite South African tune, 'Too many people are crying', when suddenly the 23-year-old woman declared: 'That song is not allowed around here. If they find that cassette, you can be dead.'