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A bit frustrating this week, since I can't really talk about a couple of the most significant musical arrivals here, due to record label embargoes and so forth. Sorry, as ever, about the teasing: I'll reveal more as soon as I can.

Heart on sleeve missives on excellent self-produced third from National associate...

The Texans continue their radical evolution with a kaleidoscopic concept album...

As you may have seen, this week’s NME features the 2013 edition of their 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. For this one, they also accepted votes from a bunch of the mag’s alumni, including me, so I thought it’d be an easy, albeit self-indulgent, blog to reproduce my Top 50 albums here.

I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature writer, a turn of events that was wholly unexpected and still seems somewhat unreal. Anyway, that was all to come. That Thursday morning, as ever in those days, I picked up a copy of MM at the paper shop at the top of Stow Hill, then eagerly devoured it on the bus into town.

The new issue of Uncut, out today (April 25), features Jeff Buckley, the Eagles, The National and Todd Rundgren.

Not sure how many of you braved the scrums of Ebay dealers on Record Store Day, but one of the more interesting things to come out of the whole business this year was the surreptitious return of Boards Of Canada.

From Laurel Canyon to jazz-rock's far outposts - the suffragette of sensuality's stunning first decade...

Class of '09 grads think bigger; wilder.

Leonard Cohen has said that people have asked him for a moratorium on the usage of covers of his classic song, 'Hallelujah'.