Terrific second from Detroit's goth-country sprites

Foul-mouthed piss-take of Britain's politics of panic

Three cult classic freakouts

In which Stephen Dalton files his first report from this year's Cannes Film Festival...

An authorised 3 day tribute festival is set to take place

Uncut chills out on day three of The Great Escape festival

Uncut reports from day two of Brighton's new music festival

Uncut reports from Brighton's Great Escape opening night

Brum's dark lord to get first star on the city's Walk Of Fame

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".