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Special reissue will come with heaps of bonus material

Revisiting Farmer Neil’s hard-hollerin’ country collective, as the Archives rummage reaches that difficult decade, the 1980s...

Lokerse Feesten will go vegetarian for one day only

In 1995, Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson released a mostly-forgotten album together called "Orange Crate Art", and I found myself in LA interviewing the pair. It was a pretty unusual trip, ending in Wilson’s front room, where he claimed that his secret was “abstaining from orgasm”,performed “Satisfaction” and an updated version of “Surfer Girl” for me on his grand piano, then offered me $100 to get my ropey dictaphone recordings played on the radio.

Swinging troubadour’s foray into Celtic myth and psychedelic daydreams, reborn in stereo...

Thurston Moore speaks about band at solo show in London

A revealing piece from Duluth, February 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB - A 70th Birthday Gift To Bob Dylan

Julian Casablancas' band head to Scotland

Apologies for not posting much new stuff over the past few days; we’ve been wrapping up the next issue of Uncut. One thing I have written, though, is this piece about, sort of, Raphael Saadiq, which was destined to be my Wild Mercury Sound column in the mag until various advertising movements rendered it, perhaps fortunately, surplus to requirements. A pretty convoluted path to “Stone Rollin’”, but just about worth posting, I think…