-- Big Fun in the Big Town, the 1986 hip-hop documentary that features footage of Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and others, will be available on DVD on May 22. It's the first time the film has been commercially available in 25 years. Check out a trailer here.

-- The Light the Dead See is the new album from UK production duo Soulsavers, out May 22 via Mute. The album features contributions from Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan. Listen to the album here.

-- Today, RWD Magazine released RWD - The Legacy, a three-CD compilation collecting UK garage, grime, and dubstep. The compilation features Katy B, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, and many others.

-- Joey Ramone's second posthumous album, ...ya know?, is out May 22 via BMG Rights Management. Watch the video for "Rock 'N Roll is the Answer" here.

Listen to 34 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance Pact

Click the play button to listen to individual songs, right click on the song title to download an MP3, or grab a zip file of the whole 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here.

ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
Prietto Viaja Al Cosmos Con Mariano - Ey, Esa No Es Forma De Decir Adios

PVACCM is a psychedelic rock duo (Mariano, drums and vocals; Prietto, guitar and vocals) from Buenos Aires. Their first recordings were kind of lo-fi experiments but in the past couple of years they've developed a unique sound with melodies and lyrics that grow on you in a melancholic way. This track is their rendition of Leonard Cohen's classic tune Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye and features on their last album, a 28-song double record that you can purchase from Bandcamp.

AUSTRIA: Walzerkoenig
Mile Me Deaf - Wild At Heart

Mile Me Deaf is one of the other bands Killed By 9V Batteries' Wolfgang Moestl plays in. And although side-projects - such an unfair name for a 500+ songs oeuvre - are usually a space for weird shit your band mates didn't agree to, their first album Eat Skull, and especially the first single Wild At Heart, is surprisingly free of noise and distortion. Instead, it creates the last-day-of-summer-holidays feeling you know...

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Brighton band join Friendly Fires, Dizzee Rascal, Chase And Status at the Welsh event

WHAT: Moon Block Party Presents: Desert Daze
WHEN: April 12-22
WHERE: North Palm Springs, CA
WHO: Dengue Fever, Here We Go Magic, the Fresh & Onlys, Bleached, Crystal Antlers, Dead Meadow, Young Prisms, the Entrance Band, the Soft Pack, Cosmonauts, more

WHAT: Snowbombing
WHEN: April 9-14
WHERE: Mayrhofen, Austria 
WHO: DJ Shadow, Dizzee Rascal, Booka Shade, Fatboy Slim, Jungle Brothers, Lindstrom, the Vaccines, Crookers, more

WHAT: Bridgetown Comedy Festival
WHEN: April 12-15
WHERE: Portland, OR
WHO: Todd Barry, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford, Jeanane Garofalo, Doug Benson, Jon Glaser, Todd Glass, Steve Agee, Horatio Sanz, Mary Lynn Rasjkub, more

WHAT: Festival Electronica en Abril
WHEN: April 12-15; April 19-21
WHERE: Madrid, Spain; Barcelona, Spain
WHO: Manuel Goettsching performing E2-E4, THEESatisfaction, Blues Control & Laraaji, Pete Swanson, Hype Williams, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Nate Young, more 

The new track will be released on June 3

Rapper will headline the October event

Rapper says he won't settle for anything less than excellence on new offering

Mark Ronson, Kids In Glass Houses, Katy B are also on the bill for the special shows

The Ting Tings, Maverick Sabre, Big Pink will also play Cornwall festival

But Dizzee Rascal won't feature on Euro 2012 official song, say reports