I can't help feeling a little let down by this follow-up to 2009's Walking on a Dream, which seems to compress that album's imagination and stylistic variety through a small valve set midway between Daft Punk and The Scissor Sisters.

With Girls Aloud gone for good and two rival Sugababes fighting it out, there's a vacancy for a Great British Girl Group. (The Saturdays? Behave.)

This weekend's Field Day festival in east London is packed with storming new acts.

You'd have to say this New York duo, singer Lizzy Plapinger and producer Max Hershenow, have given a fair summation of their debut album with that title, such is both the familiarity and enchantment of the music within.

The third album by Vampire Weekend is, by some distance, their most outwardly straightforward.

Devendra Banhart's last few albums left little impression, and despite moving to Warners' artists colony Nonesuch, his latest seems unlikely to arrest that trajectory.

David Bowie

One Direction are on course to nab the number one single this weekend with their Comic Relief single storming ahead of rivals.

Metal Hammer and HRH present Hammerfest V: In Fear of the Dragon

BBC bosses have decided to press ahead with screening archive reruns of Top Of The Pops from the 1970s, despite having to shelve a number of editions in the wake of investigations into Jimmy Savile.

It's a strange time to be Christina Aguilera.

This London-based band have taken the traditional Greek underground form, rembetika, and subtly overlaid contemporary blues and rock influences.

A book and CD show how influential the band remain, says Pierre Perrone