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Howlin' Wolf guitarist has passed away aged 80

The latest transcript from the judges' meeting, as our panel get to grips with the second Bon Iver album.

In today's transcript, the judges debate the second album by former Uncut Music Award winners, Fleet Foxes.

Fifteen tracks from Uncut's Albums of the Year, including Wilco, Gillian Welch, Fleet Foxes, Ry Cooder, Josh T Pearson, Low, White Denim and Metronomy

Among the multitude of underground micro-genres that have grown like bacilli these past few years, one of the most refined is ‘Modern Classical’. Ostensibly, much of the music that is sold under this pretext is a kind of evolved ambience, with compositional pretensions: a tidy hybrid of Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno and Erik Satie that is almost invariably pleasant, but which often seems to affect substance without actually delivering it.

To the Roundhouse last Saturday, for the Wilco and Jonathan Wilson show, which I suspect one or two of you may also have seen.

This year’s remodel: The King Of Limbs, remixed across two CDs...

Growling, whooping, yelping and crooning: a swaggering, multifarious tour-de-force...

Single-minded Canadian’s fearlessly original tour de force – a genuinely great leap forward...

App-loaded mother of all concept albums from Icelandic myth-maker...