Art of lovin'

The Band's Garth Hudson and Donald Fagen also help out

Shelby does Dusty In Memphis...Almost

It's all gone a bit Late Review round here. In the absence of Tom Paulin, here's UNCUT's Arts Blog. Latitude is not just about music but comedy, literature, theatre, film and cabaret too – plus various hybrids of all of them. Which can mean being assailed by armies of performance-art gonks and patchy student plays about the Iraq war in the middle of a forest.

Let It Bean: Sir Paul delivers first post-EMI album on Starbucks new label

Isobel Campbell and The Noisettes also confirmed for award-winning festival

Perhaps he's been inspired by the way his other half, Joanna Newsom, goes about her work. Perhaps he's up to some clever contract shenanigans. Whatever the real reason, it's pretty easy to read high creative significance into Bill Callahan's decision to drop the Smog brand and release this fine new album, "Woke On A Whaleheart", under his real name.

Love, The Doors, Tim Buckley, The Stooges – and Farquahr! Jac Holzman’s legendary label celebrated on five CDs

Twenty-four mainly Yank cover versions of Fannies classics

Third album proper from ex-Boo Radley Martin Carr

Forty songs extracted from records found in the Beatle's portable jukebox