King Crimson

The story of The Rolling Stones’ legendary free show at Hyde Park is told in the new issue of Uncut (dated August 2013, and out on Thursday, July 4).

I don’t know if you saw it, but BBC2’s David Bowie documentary, Five Years, screened at the weekend, was very entertaining. A lot of the archive footage was familiar, but there were also some splendidly unexpected highlights, like a sequence of Bowie filmed at Andy Warhol’s Factory, which rather vividly suggested that Bowie’s talent for mime isn’t perhaps all it’s cracked up to be in which he pretended to unspool his own entrails and pluck out his heart, a performance that was doubtless accompanied by much sniggering from Andy's crowd.

40th anniversary clean up shows the devil in the detail...

40th anniversary reiossue of Krautrock's greatest double album...

The Northumbrian five-piece shatter folk’s borders, as this expansive yet austere fourth proves...

I can’t pretend that we’ve been playing the Bob Dylan album that much, but a bit of interesting Dylan news did surface this week; that a previously unreleased song from the “Bringing It All Back Home” sessions called “California” is set to appear, with characteristic weirdness, on something entitled “NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Vol. 2”.

As promised, the judges' prevarications over the Uncut Music Award shortlist continue today. Here's what they said about the Elbow record. Monday, I'll post the Drive-By Truckers discussions.

Four VOLUMES includes nine tracks that are free to download

The psychedelic prog rockers to now play seven headline shows

Rare recordings from '60s English troubadour