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Business somewhat overshadowed this morning by the awful news about Levon Helm. Over the past couple of days though, these are the records we’ve been playing in the Uncut office.

Ray Davies has been announced as the latest addition to the line-up for this year's Hop Farm Festival. The festival, which will be headlined by Bob Dylan, Suede and Peter Gabriel, takes place in Paddock Wood in Kent from June 29 – July 1. Other new additions to the bill include Richard Ashcroft. It will be Ashcroft's only UK appearance of the year.

The Black Keys brought day one of this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to close last night (April 13). The California event, which is running with the same three-day bill on two consecutive weekends this year, got off to a wet and windy start.

Chicagoan prodigy drops his guard and takes flight..

This year’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton is almost upon us, running from May 10-12 at a 30 venues across the town and featuring somewhere in the region of 300 new artists.

Bob Dylan, Suede and Peter Gabriel will headline this year's Hop Farm Festival.

As guitarist Lee Ranaldo is in Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes in this month's new issue (April 2012, Take 179), we thought we'd share a Sonic Youth piece from our archive. In this feature, published in 2009, Marc Spitz finds the band (who've just finished what we now know could be their final album, The Eternal) ageing with more dignity than most, but still finding time to lash out at Oasis, Madonna and U2, and order a baby pig with a donut in its mouth… Picture by Pieter M Van Hattem.

The writer of No Country For Old Men and The Road is back, but not quite as you might expect...

EMA, Willy Mason and Toy will head up the line-up on the Uncut Stage at the The Great Escape this year.

The collaboration between The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Michael Kiwanuka has been posted online – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen.