Bad company

Mars Volta and the Tindersticks are first announced acts on Uncut's stage

Sonic chronicle of the Memphis label that nurtured Big Star; plus Q&A with Jinm Ardent, the label's founder

This year's bash takes shape -- tickets are on sale now!

The many sides of Bob Dylan: provocatively, brillinatly imagined

Brooding instrumental ballads from the Grindermen

I’ve just been reading Re-Make/Re-Model, Michael Bracewell’s new book on the formative years of Roxy Music and was particularly struck by an early passage in which Bryan Ferry – thankfully not talking about fox-hunting or the Third Reich – waxes nostalgically about a music shop in Newcastle called Windows, where as a teenager he spent many astonished hours browsing through racks of records he couldn’t always afford, but liked anyway just to spend time poring over.

The Suffolk festival will see Arcade Fire, Jarvis and Mark Lanegan all appear

Keef, comedy monkeys and Keira’s chin.

Uncut reports from day two of Brighton's new music festival

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO April 23 to 29, 1997 Aerosmith's record label, Sony, are forced to issue an apology to the American Hindu Anti-Defamation Coalition, after complaints over the artwork for the group's album, Nine Lives. The original sleeve, swiftly replaced, featured a doctored image of Krishna which depicted the Hindu deity with a cat's head and wearing a skirt.