Audience

Damon Albarn is a man of many guises, and it seems he also has an outfit to match them all. In his role as Blur frontman, he consistently favoured Fred Perry tops and oxblood Doc Martens. As a member of Gorillaz, he even went as far as to adopt an entirely different persona – the spiky-haired animated singer 2D (real name: Stuart Tusspot). For The Good, The Bad And The Queen, he favoured a Two Tone-style dark suit and a low top hat, and for his reimagining of the life of Elizabethan mystic John Dee, he went as far as to grow a beard. Tonight, he arrives on stage wearing a simple suit and tie and a pair of desert boots.

Gruff Rhys and Huw Bunford take us through their back catalogue

Cliff Richard has spoken to Uncut about his forthcoming date supporting Morrissey in America. Richard is billed as “special guest” at Morrissey’s show on June 21 at New York’s Barclays Center. Meanwhile, Tom Jones is scheduled to perform with Morrissey on May 10 at Los Angeles’ Sports Arena.

As he prepares to release his debut album at the sprightly age of 87, Harry Dean Stanton is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature. So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask the legendary cult actor? What are his memories of co-starring with Bob Dylan in Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid? How did he end up living with Jack Nicholson for a year? What kind of show could we expect if we saw him perform with The Harry Dean Stanton Band?

Next month, Arctic Monkeys play two shows at London’s Finsbury Park to more than 100,000 people, which makes it a reasonable moment to look back at the band’s journey from the Sheffield suburb of High Green to their current all-conquering place in a rock pantheon where they are now comfortably settled as one of the great British bands of the last decade.

Jack White made history yesterday by producing the world's fastest released record during a day of festivities to mark Record Store Day at his Third Man studio in Nashville, Tennessee.

As Robert Gordon reminds us in Respect Yourself: Stax Records And The Soul Explosion, his terrific account of the rise and fall of the great Memphis soul imprint, the Stax story is more than a record-label history. “It is an American story,” Gordon writes,” where the shoe-shine boy becomes a star, the country hayseed an international magnate. It’s the story of individuals against society, of small business competing with large, of the disenfranchised seeking their own tile in the American mosaic.”

Miles in 1970: expanded, and expanding all the time...

Bruce Springsteen inducted the E Street Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night [April 10]. The current line-up of the E Street Band was on hand for the induction, alongside original drummer Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez and keyboardist David Sancious. Danny Federici's widow Maya accepted on his behalf, and Victoria Clemons spoke for her late husband Clarence. You can read Springsteen's entire induction speech below:

Four years on from the death of his creator Chris Sievey, Frank Sidebottom has finally found the international platform that eluded him during Sievey's lifetime.