Creators of The Wire tackle ultra-violence in Iraq

Brutal, theatrical biopic of the other Charles Bronson

After our blog feast the other week - thanks to When You Awake for getting in touch and for all your other recommendations, by the way - I figured I should mention a couple more.

The E Street Band to take Working On A Dream to Scotland

I was reading my blog on Super Furry Animals’ “Hey Venus” the other day, and noticed a comment that the band were working on two other albums for imminent release, albums that’d put the tidy poppiness of “Hey Venus” into quite a different context. Like so many talked-up projects in that vein, nothing seemed to come of them. But the new Super Furry Animals album, “Dark Days/Light Years” feels very much like the yang to the yin of “Hey Venus”.

The untitled as yet LP is due for release in April

The full transcript of the interview from Uncut's cover feature

Singer joins The Prodigy, Razorlight and Stereophonics

West 53rd Street gets renamed to celebrate the group's new album

Quite busy here with, as you can see, a bunch of new stuff again this week: right now the new Jason Lytle album has just started up and doesn't appear to be a huge departure from what he was up to in Grandaddy.