Sigur Rós release their seventh studio album ‘Kveikur’ today on XL Recordings. The album is defined by a darker more dystopian mood than their previous ventures, sounding like a band cutting loose of their own heritage, whilst at the same time remaining definitively Sigur Rós.

Paul Simon introduced millions of listeners to the wonders of the music of South Africa with 'Graceland' which won the 1987 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, while the title song won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1988. The story of 'Graceland' is one of the most compelling in all of pop music.

Mark Owen releases his fourth solo album 'The Art Of Doing Nothing' today on Polydor – his first album since Take That reunited in 2006. The first single from the album is ‘Stars’ – an anthemic track full of expansive, swaggering pop swirls.

Camera Obscura return with their fifth studio album ‘Desire Lines’, released on 4AD. The songs on ‘Desire Lines’ are bright, bold and full of space and joy. ‘Troublemaker’ tells us it was going to be one hell of a year, ‘New Year’s Resolution’ talks about admitting things and kissing like you mean it whilst ‘Cri Du Coeur’ takes us on a journey, daydreaming about the past.

Disclosure have topped the UK album charts with their debut album ‘Settle’ released 3rd June through PMR/Universal Island. The album follows a string of successful singles including ‘Latch’ ft. Sam smith, ‘White Noise’ feat. AlunaGeorge, which entered the UK singles chart at No. 2, and most recent single ‘You & Me’ feat. Eliza Dolittle.

Crystal Fighters release their highly anticipated second album ‘Cave Rave’ today. To write the album, the band retreated to the Basque hills that they consider to be their spiritual home, and wrote ‘Cave Rave’ in its entirety during this two-month spell. The album is rich in musical influences  - from Hispanic and African dance to Mexican electronic music 3bal alongside folk and psychedelia.

Several Universal Music Publishing songwriters feature in Music Weeks' top 20 Q1 2013 UK Hit Songwriters list - with Bastille’s songwriter Dan Smith making the top spot, with the help of singles ‘Pompeii’ and ‘Flaws’. 

Gabrielle Aplin's debut album 'English Rain', released on 13th May through Parlophone Records, has entered the Uk album charts at No. 2. The album was recorded with Mike Spencer (Rudimental, Alex Clare) in his Buckingham studio over a period of 6 months. Gabrielle wrote or co-wrote all the new songs on the album, and played the majority of the instruments herself.

Marques Toliver releases his debut album ‘Land Of CanAan’ today. The album follows his critically acclaimed ‘Butterflies Are Not Free’ EP, for which the New York Times praised him for his "considerable talent," and which led Line of Best Fit to note, “there’s an overwhelming sentiment that this boy is going to be a very important feature of music to come over the next few years."

With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasted over 1000 songs, Irving Berlin epitomised Jerome Kern's famous maxim that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music - he is American music." Irving Berlin would have been 125 years old on May 11 2013, and to commemorate this anniversary we’ve pulled together a selection of his classic songs.