Bad company

If this is to be Clint's final role, it's a powerful, cussed farewell

Read the actor's full transcript from our new cover feature here...

Malian Afro-pop troubadours team up with Damon Albarn and others for this assault on the Western pop market

I received an email a while back from an Uncut writer who’d just played “Acid Tongue” for the first time. “I can reveal that on this Jenny Lewis,” they wrote, “her father gets it in the neck, in the way her mother got it in the neck last time... pretty good.”

When Klaus Dinger died a few months ago, I mentioned in an obit here that I had an unpublished interview with Dinger and Michael Rother, from when they briefly reunited to promote the Neu! reissues in 2000.

A strange one, this. Nick Cave has been workaholically juggling multiple projects over the past couple of years: The Bad Seeds, of course; his comparatively pensive soundtrack work with Warren Ellis; and the rambunctious, Stoogesy garage rock of Grinderman. A betting man or woman might have put money on him turning up at Latitude in the company of the Bad Seeds, on the back of their superb “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” album from earlier this year.

Enlightening visual history of an often-inscrutable band

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The Arctic Monkey debuts at number one with Last Shadow Puppets

Nick Cave’s baddass side project, Grinderman have been confirmed to play this year’s Latitude Festival, sponsored by Uncut.