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From humble ivory-tickler to global sensation - the singer-songwriter's rise chronicled...

Composer Philip Glass - who turns 75 this year - is to be the subject of a remix album, inspired by a conversation between Glass and Beck. The album, called Rework: Philip Glass Remixed, is due for release in October. It includes reworks of original Glass compositions from Beck himself, Tyondai Braxton (ex-Battles), Amon Tobin, Memory Tapes, Dan Deacon, and more. Full tracklist for Rework: Disc One 1. My Great Ghost – "Music in Twelve Parts, Part 1" 2. Tyondai Braxton – "Rubric (Remix)" 3. Nosaj Thing – "Knee 1 (Remix)"

Now available in stereo: LA minstrel’s junkshop hi-fi comes to life...

Plenty of gold in this week’s haul, and not much better than the Duane Pitre album whose sleeve is posted above – a truly excellent record that I must admit I missed when it was released a few months back.

The Artist and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy dominate the nominations for this year's BAFTA Film Awards.

See the full line-up on Uncut

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

So today at Uncut we've been frantically finishing the issue, struggling in vain to make an online streaming of the new Om album work and, oh yeah, doing a lot of interviews with various radio and TV stations about this Led Zeppelin reunion.

The folk magus is to play Aintree Racecourse in July