The pioneering disco producer couldn't make that collaboration happen – but he has got a new track with the late Donna Summer coming soon, he tells Alexis Petridis
Was James Blake the right choice? Will David Bowie ever get over it? The strange effect of Jake Bugg … our music team try to find their way through the Mercury maze
31 Oct 2013:
MIA's last album was hard work indeed, and her new one is only marginally less so – but she's still a unique artist, writes Alexis Petridis
Each year the Mercury prize becomes more conservative – ahead of Wednesday's ceremony, our critics pick the albums that should have been nominated, from cow-shed electronica to airport dubstep
28 Oct 2013:
The streetwise, tough image was matched by songs of real tenderness and touching fragility. Reed always did the exact opposite of what he was expected to do, writes Alexis Petridis
Mark Lewisohn on his extraordinary Beatlemania, Anna Calvi's orchestral manoeuvring. Plus, music from MIA, Lady Gaga (with R Kelly) and Trampolene in Singles Club
Alexis Petridis: Rumours that Lily Allen will be singing Keane for the department store's TV ad are unconfirmed, but it sure isn't going to be using a song by an extreme metal band
Marie Waterson on how Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley helped celebrate her mother Lal's music. Plus Mike Skinner, James Blake and Matthew E White in Singles Club.