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Their breakthrough: platinum-coated rock’n’roll...

They join Foo Fighters, Pulp and Public Image Ltd

Father-daughter dysfunction in Hollywood, from none other than Sofia Coppola. Intimate and very funny...

Dizzying third long-player from Dream Syndicate mainman’s main band...

The last transcript from our 2010 Uncut Music Award deliberations...

Been promising this for a while, so here goes: my 100 favourite albums of 2010.

Welsh songstress excels – with the help of Albert Hammond and The Roots...

Having just finished Peter Matthiessen’s book about (among other things) Nepal, “The Snow Leopard”, it’s been quite nice these past few days to perceive cold and snow as a path to spiritual revelation as much as a physical ordeal. Of course, crawling down the A10 on the Number 76 yesterday morning pretty effectively demolished the romance.

Mammoth 19CD box shows sheer width and depth of singer’s talent...

Bit of a dash today, since we’re finishing up the end-of-year issue, Top 50 Albums Of 2010 and all. Some good new things in here, as you can see; particularly taken with the Six Organs record.