Dave Grohl - 

Hooker on the Street

Second only to goth, grunge is surely one of the whitest music genres ever to have existed. Yet even at the height of Nirvana's popularity, Dave Grohl had broader musical influences. On this previously unreleased solo demo, recorded with producer Barrett Jones in 1992, the future Foo Fighter demonstrates a passing familiarity with rap and funk, as well as hair metal. Recorded in the same year Blood Sugar Sex Magik was topping the charts, Hooker on the Street may well have been intended as a Red Hot Chili Peppers parody. But Grohl also delivers a James Brown impersonation that walks a fine line between homage and racist caricature.

Lotic ft Dr Luke, Rabit, Sugur Shane, DJ Karfox, Big Hud, Fat Pimp

- From The Front

You gotta wonder what other stage names Fat Pimp considered and rejected before he landed on his current one and thought, “Ahh, le mot juste!”

Lana Del Rey -

Big Eyes

Kitsch 1960s artist Margaret Keane is the subject of Tim Burton's biopic Big Eyes, in cinemas this month. Lana Del Rey recorded two songs for this film about an artist who is commercially successful, critically disdained and possessed of a singular vision she seems content to endlessly rehash. How long, one wonders, before Burton makes a film about Lana Del Rey herself?

Jonny Greenwood

- Spooks

Greenwood re-recorded this unreleased Radiohead track – with Joanna Newsom narrating, and Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey providing atmospherics – for the soundtrack of Paul Thomas Anderson's Infinite Jest. If nothing else, it secures a Kevin Bacon-esque link between virtuoso American novelist David Foster Wallace and lovable Britpop scamps Supergrass.