This Week in Music

The Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse and Tony Wilson were all recipients of accolades at the Q Awards this week. Kylie Minogue made her first appearance at an awards show since being diagnosed with breast cancer, saying: “It's my first day back at work like this so it's very exciting and slightly nerve-racking." To read the full list of winners, click Click here. Photograph: Joel Ryan/PA

Bloc Party are just one of the many bands to lend their tunes to a compilation for the charity Love Music Hate Racism. The 29-track CD was put together in as a riposte to the BNP, who have been distributing free CDs at school gates in a bid to recruit youngsters. Click here for details. Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian

The saga of the Led Zeppelin reunion show rumbles on, as promoter Harvey Goldsmith lost his rag over online auction sites and the secondary ticketing market. “I wish eBay would drop dead and die”, Goldsmith said on Kerrang! Radio. “I have begged them to take [the tickets] off and they have basically told us to fuck off. So I will do everything I possibly can to ruin their lives." Read the full story here. Photograph: Terry O'Neill/Getty

A 30-year-old mother of two from Minnesota was fined a record $222,000 (£109,000) for illegal filesharing. Many voices objected to Jammie Thomas being made a example of, but prosecuting lawyer Richard Gabriel had the final word: "This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is not OK.” Click here for more. Photograph: Bob King/AP

Madonna is set to sign a $120 million contract with concert promoter Live Nation. The move will see the 49-year-old singer dissolve a 25-year relationship with her record label Warner Music who, it’s rumoured, could not match Live Nation’s super-sized deal. Photograph: Eugene Marino/Sygma

Return of the Jacko: chief Black Eyed Pea will.i.am claims that Michael Jackson called him up out of the blue and expressed an interest in working with him, while Kanye West teased “I'm working on stuff for Michael Jackson." Which we can only hope means more massive robots and less Jesus Juice. Photograph: Jim Ruyman/Reuters/ Corbis

This week’s Music Weekly Podcast features clips from a recent interview between both Sir Paul McCartney and Pete Doherty. You can listen here, or read the full interview in this Sunday’s Observer Music Monthly. Photograph: Harry Borden/Observer

He’s been touted as the “new Bob Marley” thanks to his emotional lyrics and gift for melody. But Jamaica’s Jah Cure is also a convicted rapist who served eight years for assaulting a woman at gunpoint. Here he can be seen performing behind bars, click here for the full story over the controversy his planned tour of the UK has caused. Photograph: Dawn Knight/Other

Yoko Ono released a poem to commemorate the unveiling of her Peace Tower in Reykjavik on what would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday. Click here for more. Photograph: Jane Bown/Observer

Not sure if you heard, but Radiohead’s seventh album, In Rainbows, was released this week. Read about it here and here and, also, here. Photograph: Sam Machkovech/The Stranger