The Yeah Yeah Yeahs rock out, the Black Keys jazz it up and Mark E Smith plays his 162,326th gig – join us for the week's best musical moments

From Paris to Penang to the Pacific northwest! From the Misfits to Murs and from Bo Ningen to BRMC! It could only be The Week in Music – in pictures!

This week's pictorial highlights include Somali hip-hop collective Waayaha Cusub, Depeche Mode, Johnny Marr and the Weeknd

This week's musical highlights come courtesy of Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Gilberto Gil, Carrie Underwood … and the indomitable David Hasselhoff

The week's top musical shots from around the world, including some members of Sonic Youth and Salif Keita

From Keane to Karen O, here are this week's smartest live music snaps

What's been going on in music this week, including rocking new year performances from some of the biggest stars in pop

From Taylor Swift to Tame Impala, take a tour of this week's most memorable musical moments

From Marilyn Manson to Martha Wainwright, from Seal to Suggs, marvel at this week's musical snaps

From Alicia Keys to the Black Keys, here are some of this week's most memorable moments in music

From Thom Yorke to Taylor Swift, this week's best music pictures also include Jarvis Cocker and Diana Krall

From Bangalore to Basel, this week's best music pictures include Rita Ora, Stooshe and Seal

From the CMA and Mercury awards to Grace Jones and Hot Chip: the week in music - in pictures

This week's epicentres of musical cool include Hollywood, Lagos and, er, Leicester

And as well as Ms. Cole and old, everyone from Kiss to Psy rocked the world this week ...

Grills, giant bubbles, a man pretending to be a jockey – it's all there in our runthrough of the most memorable events of another week in the world of music, travelling from the US to Madrid to Warsaw and, of course, Portmeirion

The best pictures from Reading and Leeds festivals in the UK, Burning Man in the US, plus events in France, South Africa and South Korea

From Leicester to Lowlands, here are this week's best music pictures

From Russian punks to festival crowds, here are the week's best music pictures

It was the week that saw Duran Duran going for gold for Great Britain in London, the Womad festival, Wayne Coyne in that bubble of his again and much more ...