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Black America’s militant years, captured on rediscovered Swedish documentaries. Right on!

Feist is set to play a trio of UK dates as part of a newly announced world tour.

Phew and all that. I’ve just been listening again to the 37 minute stream of new music by Neil Young and Crazy Horse that was posted at the weekend on neilyoung.com. I’m sure there were more important things I could have been doing throughout the day, like filling in health and safety reports and similarly essential tasks. But after reading John’s Wild Mercury Blog on the Neil and Crazy Horse jams, which are titled, tantalisingly, ‘Horse Back’, I haven’t needed much encouragement to utterly neglect such housekeeping duties to further take in the roiling brilliance of Neil and Crazy Horse.

Post-war Los Angeles was doubtless a swell place to live if you were a movie star, Hollywood mogul, business tycoon, captain of industry, political big-wig, gangster or otherwise a money-bags, cosseted by wealth, not much in life you couldn’t afford.

Disney's Joy Division inspired Mickey Mouse t-shirt has been withdrawn from sale.

Arctic Monkeys have confirmed that they won't be appearing at any of this summer's festivals across Europe.

Peter Hook has said he feels it is "quite a compliment" that Disney have been "inspired" by Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' artwork for their latest Mickey Mouse T-shirt.

Beady Eye scored the biggest selling vinyl singles of 2011, with three of their singles featuring in the top five of the year's best sellers.

Pulp have announced three more live dates for this summer.

MC Taylor, a songwriter and a student of folklore, is not a declamatory man. His songs are compressed and poetic, with nary a syllable out of place. You will hear echoes of familiar things – a bit of Van Morrison’s mystical warmth, or John Martyn’s angst, and the language will be unfussy, and derived from the folk tradition.