Music: Booking now

Bad gal Courtney Love gears up for a one-off appearance with "a modified Hole " (17 Feb, Shepherd's Bush Empire, ticketmaster.co.uk ) before the release of upcoming album Nobody's Daughter … More female guitar-slinging can be caught from Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson (21 Apr, Luminaire, NW6, wegottickets.com ) … And delicate finger-picking from folk singer Vashti Bunyan in appropriately gentle settings (10 Apr, St Georges Church, Brighton; 11 Apr, Union Chapel, N1 wegottickets.com ) … Patti Smith tours An Evening Of Words And Music With Tony Shanahan (21-26 Mar, starting at Union Chapel, N1, pattismith.net ) … Rihanna gets Rated R on the road (7-19 May, starting at Birmingham LG Arena, livenation.co.uk ) … Norah Jones plays songs from her latest, The Fall (21 Jun, Manchester Apollo; 22 Jun, HMV Apollo Hammersmith, W6, seetickets.com ) … Singer-songwriter Marina & the Diamonds headlines a tour (14-23 Feb, starting at Norwich Arts Centre, ticketmaster.co.uk ) … As does Kathryn Williams (21 Feb to 6 Mar, starting at The Glee Club, Birmingham, ents24.com ) after hooking up with Robyn Hitchcock and Graham Coxon (30 Jan, Queen Elizabeth Hall, SE1, southbankcentre.co.uk ).