A hawk and a hacksaw

With the new issue onsale, Top 50 of the year inside and all, plus the whole Uncut Music Award business, it occurs to me I should hunker down and prepare a Wild Mercury Sound 2010 chart.

Not quite as long a playlist as usual this week, chiefly because Number Nine here – The Grateful Dead live at “Winterland 1973” – is a box set of nine CDs, and we played the first three, comprising the entire set from November 9, straight through yesterday. November 10 and 11 to come in the next couple of days, if my colleagues will let me get away with it, then there’s a 3CD set from around the time of “Terrapin Station” to have a go at, too.

Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico talk about new LP

Full stage times here for the Butlins music extravaganza

Mark Eitzel joins Mercury Rev and Dirty Three in Dorset

The band are set to play only British show at the End Of The Road

Animal Collective, Battles and De La Soul added to line-up

Magnificent return, reinvention from the Bristol three + indepth Q&A w/Geoff Barrow

Uncut has all the stage times that you'll need, right here