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Public Image Ltd.'s John Lydon has said he fears that last summer's riots are the precursor to "something far, far worse". Speaking in this week's issue of NME, which is on UK newsstands and available digitally now, Lydon has said he was "deeply ashamed" of how the government handled the situation and that you can still "feel the tension" on the streets.

Dylan at the Hop Farm Festival, Springsteen and Paul Simon in Hyde Park, the Great Escape Festival in Brighton, as mentioned last week, a ton of great bands at the No Direction Home and End Of The Road festivals, which have line-ups straight out of the pages of Uncut. There’s certainly no shortage of great gigs on the horizon, looming and inviting. There’s one among them, though, that I may actually be looking forward to more than anything else coming up: Dave Alvin at the London Jazz Café on April 20.

Alex Chilton’s wild, idiosyncratic life after Big Star is examined in the new issue of Uncut (Take 180, May 2012), out now. But what happened before the demise of Chilton’s greatest group? They should have been rock superstars, but Rob Jovanovic explains how drugs, in-fighting and personal tragedy meant Big Star had to settle for being the biggest cult band of all time (from Uncut's Take 94, March 2005). ________________________________

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Sex Pistols' frontman John Lydon has claimed that he'd like to "have a cake fight" with the Queen.

Radiohead debuted two new songs during the first show of their 2012 world tour in Miami last night (February 27).

Gritty police drama from James Ellroy...

Smart documentary unzips a hidden chapter of British reggae...

Mumford And Sons have said that they are in the "final stages" of recording the follow-up to their debut album 'Sigh No More'.

Mumford & Sons and Old Crowd Medicine Show have unveiled the trailer for their new tour film Big Easy Express – scroll down and click below to see it.