Breeders

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!

Will be the reunited bands only UK festival appearance

A fair number of reissues in this one, that I've compiled over the past day or so. But there's also a couple of auspicious new releases just in, that I'll be writing more about in the next few days.

Kraftwerk, Spiritualized, The Verve and The Raconteurs join him at California festival

The Breeders, Steve Albini, Bonnie Prince Billy all set to help out in Chicago

In these heady days of New Rave and such, it was heartening to be reminded this morning of the last time British bands tried to pull off that trick. "Warming Up The Brain Farm: The Best Of The Lo-Fidelity All Stars" turned up in the post. And amazingly, ten years on, it sounds great.

'Superfluous' Ash lady proves she was born to be in the band

Emerging in 2001, these Detroit brothers lash the hard-livin' loucheness to traditional country ache. Frontman/songwriter Kurt Marschke's wail is Jaggeresque and there's lonesome balladry aplenty ("27 Hours", "Such A Crime") plus enough "Happy"-like fretwork to suggest what might have been had Gram'n'Keef really got it on. "Entitled" pits the sideways chug of The Breeders' "Cannonball" against early Replacements sneer, and dobro/pedal steel player Peter Ballard tints the big skies with a yearning airiness. Seriously impressive.

Major label debut produced by Talking Head Jerry Harrison