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It’s not a situation I could have predicted 20 years ago, I’ll admit, but there’s a point I reach quite often on Friday afternoons when all I really want to hear is The Grateful Dead. As default, I’ll cue up something from 1972 – the Wembley Empire Pool set from that year, say – mention it on Twitter, then receive a lot of static from my Dead friends who see me as something of a lightweight for clinging so conservatively to that year.

A rare Aphex Twin album that only reached the test pressing stage is streaming online. Click below to listen now. The extremely rare album, titled Caustic Window, was printed on four sides of vinyl and went on sale earlier this year priced at nearly £8,000. A Kickstarter campaign set up by fans to buy the album raised over £20,000 from fans of the producer.

The good, the bad and the ugly pay tribute to a mighty catalogue as The Boss looks on...

The Allah-Las have announced details of their new album, Worship The Sun. We're delighted to premier one of the album's tracks, "501-415", which you can scroll down to hear. The album, the follow-up to their self-titled 2012 debut, is released on September 15, 2014 by Innovative Leisure.

The Aztec Camera-man relives his early-'80s glories - slap bass and all...

As Jack White’s second solo album, Lazaretto, is released on Monday (June 10), it seemed time to check out some of the White pieces in our archive. Here, in this article from December 2006’s Uncut (Take 115), Jack, Brendan Benson and Patrick Keeler celebrate the irresistible rise of their three-minute garage pop classic. Interview: Barney Hoskyns

The stage times for this month's Glastonbury festival have been revealed. Scroll down for information on the timings for the Pyramid Stage, Other Stage, West Holts Stage, The Park Stage, John Peel Stage Acoustic Tent and Avalon Stage. Glastonbury 2014 takes place on Worthy Farm over June 27-29, with the gates to festival opening on June 25. Pyramid Stage Friday Arcade Fire 22.00-23.45 Elbow 20.00-21.15 Lily Allen 18.30-19.30 Rudimental 16.45-17.45 De La Soul 15.15-16.15 Rodrigo y Gabriela 13.45-14.45 The War on Drugs 12.30-13.15

I must confess that, until very recently, I hadn’t really heard of Mike Cooper; more evidence, I guess, of the apparently boundless reserves of records from the early ‘70s still to be reissued (the Bob Carpenter album, due to be released on No Quarter in the autumn, is another great example I should write about soon).