The music recommender rolls out across formats

The ltd edition will be out on vinyl and CD next month

Gospel queen revisits anthems of the Civil Rights movement

Megastars mull over mixture of Mitchell

Expanded, long-overdue remasters from the prime proponent of song-noir

Since I blogged about the Espers live gig last Friday, I've been playing the Meg Baird solo album to death.

He will showcase songs from new album Strangelet

The trio play their first UK gig of the year

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO April 30 to May 6, 1997 The first issue of Uncut – the UK’s first music and movie magazine – is published With a cover story that revisits Elvis Costello’s calamitous 1979 Armed Forces tour of America. Also featured in our first issue are Bob Dylan in Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, a major retrospective on Billy Mackenzie, Counting Crows, Clint Eastwood and Taxi Driver. Albums reviewed in the issue include a Jam 20th anniversary box set, described by guest reviewer Alan McGee as “drop dead punk rock genius”, Foo Fighters, Paul McCartneyJimi Hendrix, Iggy And The Stooges and Morrissey’s Viva Hate.

I've always been resistant to the notion that horror movies can in some way function as biting social comment.