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Following the triumph of El Camino, Auerbach, Carney and Danger Mouse roll the dice, play it where it lays...

After the Best Albums Of 2014: Halftime Report business earlier in the week, it’s good to push on today with a bunch of very fine new arrivals, many of which you can hear at least tracks from below.

In tribute to Glenn Frey, who died on January 18, 2016, we look back on the legend of Desperado...

Journey through the past... The songwriter's solo debut proper is his most personal statement yet...

The storms battering the South Coast have blown themselves out by the time Club Uncut reconvenes for another year at The Great Escape festival. It’s after midnight and very nearly pitch-black in the Dome Studio just before our first night’s headliners, The Hold Steady, dramatically hit the lights, then the stage. “As the song says,” Craig Finn promises, “we’re gonna have a real good time together.”

Sombre and sparce, but not in the least bit sober: Guy Garvey and co's classy sixth...

The Heartbreakers keys man debuts - with a little help from his friends...

Pavement’s ex-mainman plays to strengths in his first since becoming a Berliner. By Jason Anderson

If you were looking for a unifying thread running through HBO’s excellent new series, True Detective, then it might well be to do with faith: those who have it, those who don’t and those who may well be exploiting it for their own ends.

To get to the Clyde Auditorium - the 3,000-seat venue crouched on the riverbank beside the SECC, which Glaswegians only ever refer to as The Armadillo - you have to traverse a long, wormy, weather-beaten covered walkway that bridges a motorway.