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Radiohead drummer Philip Selway has unveiled the video for the first track to be taken from his new solo album.

How does the most innovative guitarist of his generation spend his spare time? By writing masterful film scores and trying to reinvent how music sounds, it seems. Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood soundtrack is performed at London’s Roundhouse on August 6 and 7, and here, in this piece from Uncut’s April 2011 issue (Take 167), Rob Young penetrates Greenwood’s studio lair and discovers, among other things, what Radiohead have been up to of late...

Petty and band return with their hardest-rocking album in 25 years. Oh yeah, all right!

We interviewed Eric Idle about the recent Monty Python's Total Rubbish: The Complete Collection for the August 2014 issue of Uncut. We only had room in the issue for a small chunk of the interview; so here it is in full... __________ Did making records allow Monty Python to express or try things out that you didn't do in your tv shows? Or was it a sensible marketing opportunity that you made the best of?

Jarvis Cocker is set to judge a Pulp karaoke competition in New York next week. Cocker will be in New York to preside over the contest, which is being held at the Industry City venue in Brooklyn. Would be entrants can tweet their plea to perform for Cocker to the event organisers with those who don't want to sing "Common People" told they stand a better chance of being selected.

Eric Clapton is competing with Ed Sheeran in the race for this week's Number One on the Official UK Albums Chart. Sheeran is currently ahead of The Breeze by Eric Clapton & Friends at today's midweek stage and is on course to spend his sixth straight week at the top with his second album X. The final chart placings will be revealed on BBC Radio 1 on Sunday (August 3).

Morrissey has denied reports that he ordered a security guard to attack a man who runs a fansite dedicated to the singer.

Robert Plant is on the cover of the new issue of Uncut, dated September 2014 and out now.

Damon Albarn has said that Blur may never finish the album they began working on in 2013. Albarn recorded new music with his Blur bandmates in Hong Kong in May last year. However, in an interview published in this week's NME which is on newsstands tomorrow (July 30) and available digitally, Albarn says that because he likes to work in shorter, more concentrated periods of time he fears that he may never return to the tracks the band made while in Asia.