Business as usual today after yesterday’s somewhat neurotic post. Many thanks to Dave C for hooking us up with a killer Endless Boogie jam from Primavera, which I’m in the thick of as I type.

Funny how some records take a while to bed in, no matter how much you play them, nor how often people you trust tell you how good they are. I’ve had something of an uncharacteristic writer’s block for the past week or so (hence the shortage of blogs; sorry about that), but when we had another go at the Avi Buffalo album yesterday, a few thoughts crystallised.

Unsettling lust-noir, with serious bodycount...

Midlife crisis! Ben Stiller breaks new ground in droll comedy-drama set in the LA suburbs...

Reunited with his ’70s musical Mr Fixit, Browne delivers a great career-spanning live set – his best album in years...

An astonishing rebirth for the psychedelic cowboy...

From post-punk psych to ‘fairground hair metal’, via a lot of ’80s pop – this LA freak’s full-band debut is wild and free...

Bono and co could be back next year after cancelling 2010 appearance

Stewart to be replaced by Mick Hucknall for reunion gigs

'Familial' has been recorded at the band's Oxford HQ