Destroyer

If you’re feeling withdrawal symptoms after the glut of end-of-year charts last month, I cooked this up for the latest edition of Uncut…

Elbow, Paul Weller and Bon Iver will headline this year's Latitude Festival.

Just before Christmas, you may remember, I asked for your 2011 Top Tens, in response to my lengthy end-of-year effort.

'The Suburbs' beats off competition from Austra, Braids and Timbre Timbre to take prize

15 great tracks, My Morning Jacket, White Denim, EMA, Dave Alvin, The Felice Brothers, Destroyer, Metronomy The Go! Team and more

A revealing piece from Duluth, February 2011

Singer will play before Iron & Wine on festival's final night

Hit the Norse! Latest comic book adapation, about a man and his hammer.

Last month, I travelled over to Duluth, Minnesota to interview Low for the issue of Uncut that comes out later this week. While I was there, I emailed a couple of questions about the band to Nels Cline (via Wilco’s publicist), who guests on the wonderful new Low album, “C’Mon”.

Thanks, once again, to all of you who submitted your Top Tens of 2010 to the blog at the end of the year. I’ve now applied the dark mathematics and come up with a Top 50 from them, which provides an interesting - healthy, to be honest - contrast to my own list. The winner was ahead of the pack by a mile, incidentally…