With just one calendar month to go until Uncut's favourite event of the summer, we'll be bringing you daily artist previews, news updates and prize giveaways as we count down to Suffolk... Today, we have copies of our favourite Soviet-born New Yorker Regina Spektor's new album Far to give away!

Wayne Coyne and co plan to put out a double LP this Autumn

What to make of The Fiery Furnaces? A brilliant band, maybe, whose frequently demented surfeit of ideas has proved too overwhelming for all but their most assiduous listeners over the past few years.

The band, who are set to play Latitude, make an alternate promo for new single

Special discount for Uncut readers for rescheduled date!

Big on tunes. Big on ambition. Beth Ditto is coming for you

Texan trio expand on their garage rock template, thrillingly

Solid, surprising refresher course in the Dark Horse

Feuds forgotten, Mascis and co.’s best since 1993’s Where You Been

Thanks for all your responses to the Favourites Of 2009 flam I posted last Friday; I’ve posted some further thoughts there, which’ll doubtless inflame the Decemberists and Felice Brothers fans (more or less on my own here in my apathy to the latter, incidentally; check this for Allan’s eloquent alternate take).