Beth Orton

London Grammar: Californian Soil review

Reid hasn’t addressed many micro-aggressions women in music industry regularly have to contend with – until now

Mercury Rev: Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited review – Celebration of artistic bravery

Mercury Rev enlist Hope Sandoval, Norah Jones, Margo Price, Phoebe Bridgers for Bobbie Gentry tribute album

New artist of the week: Boy Azooga

Plus songs to hear from Foals and Denise Chaila

Kendrick Lamar, The Script and Imagining Ireland: The best pop and rock this week

Beth Orton is back on the gig trail; The Lost Brothers find their way around Ireland; British Sea Power sail on; and The Pale are still hale 25 years later

How to scare your children with the Wainwright Sisters’ creepy songs

Martha Wainwright and her half-sister Lucy have a dark, strange new album that they reckon is for all the family

Various: Rough Trade Shops – Heavenly 25 | Album Review

Sam Amidon – an old folk head on young shoulders

Vermont native Sam Amidon explains how he went from office typist to folk revivalist - and how he loves to jam with Martin Hayes on the Lower East Side

Various: Son of Rogues Gallery