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John Lennon also appears on live and promo archive films

Nostalgic and accessible return to the Bristol council estate where he grew up

Nick Cave’s baddass side project, Grinderman have been confirmed to play this year’s Latitude Festival, sponsored by Uncut.

Mars Volta and the Tindersticks are first announced acts on Uncut's stage

An ill-advised leap towards 80s power pop. Yikes.

This year's bash takes shape -- tickets are on sale now! Find out more about the Uncut-sponsored bash here...

This year's bash takes shape -- tickets are on sale now!

Yesterday, I watched a DVD of “Love Story”, a documentary about Love and Arthur Lee. It’s not the most elegant piece of film-making I’ve ever seen, but the research and the storytelling of Lee, Johnny Echols, Bryan Maclaine, Jac Holzman (who should have a film devoted to him and Elektra, I think) and many others make it compelling.

The biggest selling release of 2007 gets a facelift

I am, I must confess, a bit unclear about what exactly is meant by the very hip term blog house. I've a hunch that it refers to dance music whose success is driven by online theorists rather than exposure in clubs. But to be honest, I've a bit of a dilettante attitude to the dance scene these days: much as I try to keep up to speed with as much music as I can, I think I'm missing a lot of this stuff.