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Wild Beasts will headline this year's Beacons Festival.

As guitarist Lee Ranaldo is in Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes in this month's new issue (April 2012, Take 179), we thought we'd share a Sonic Youth piece from our archive. In this feature, published in 2009, Marc Spitz finds the band (who've just finished what we now know could be their final album, The Eternal) ageing with more dignity than most, but still finding time to lash out at Oasis, Madonna and U2, and order a baby pig with a donut in its mouth… Picture by Pieter M Van Hattem.

A musical based on The Flaming Lips' 2002 album 'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots' is set to open in Los Angeles later this year.

Paul Weller is streaming his new album 'Sonik Kicks' online in full, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen to the album.

Dexys Midnight Runners have posted the first track from their forthcoming new album 'One Day I'm Going To Soar' online – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen to 'Nowhere Is Home'.

For various reasons. I found myself in New York the other week, and in a resiliently unhip part of Williamsburg at a bar called Don Pedro. The opportunity had come up to see one of my favourite artists of the past couple of years, a firebrand piano man called Hans Chew, whose debut solo album, “Tennessee And Other Stories”, was a surprise entry at the sharp end of Uncut’s 2010 Top 50 (Lots more on that here).

Okkervil River lifeboat sails into rockier waters...

Paul Schrader’s long unavailable ‘70s Viet vet revenge thriller now on DVD...

The new April issue of Uncut, out now, features David Bowie peering from the cover in his guise as sleazy space-star Ziggy Stardust. To celebrate this look at Bowie’s greatest creation 40 years on, here’s a fantastic piece from Uncut’s 18th issue, in November 1998, in which Chris Roberts looks back at the glammed-up, transgressive superstars who changed his adolescent world.

Robert Redford launches the UK version of his garlanded indie film festival...