Zeitgeist

Having just seen Seth Lakeman on the JJB/Puma Arena at V Festival, we're pleased to report the Devon folk sensation's performances have got quite daring - yes, Lakeman seems to have dropped some lemon drops, toddled off to visit the fairies in the woods and gone psychedelic.

The riff-heavy return of alt.rock's angsty messiah

Billy Corgan is not an easy man to like, but from time to time in his career he's made some pretty good records. I should make it clear from the start that I'm hardly a Smashing Pumpkins obsessive: I liked the psych-grunge of "Gish" a lot, and I was distinctly impressed by the translation of ambition into a new kind of stadium rock on "Siamese Dream".

The album that changed indie rock forever

The Durutti Column mastermind will field your enquiries in a future issue of Uncut

The Stranglers bassman picks his peachiest tunes: “It's the nearest thing to an orgasm in music”

Nearly 50 years on, their first complete boxset

Kurt Wagner bounces back from self-doubt with help from a community of collaborators

The Canadians’ resurgent sixth

Surf guitar meets kaleidoscopic psych on a career-best LP