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Glamiversary! Bolan's seminal rocker remastered with B-sides, demos and outtakes...

Bob Dylan has paid tribute to Levon Helm, the former drummer with The Band, who passed away on Thursday April 19, aged 71. Dylan collaborated with The Band over the course of their career, first on Dylan's 1965 American tour. They worked together on the 1967 sessions that were eventually released as The Basement Tapes, and also a joint 1974 tour. Writing on bobdylan.com, Dylan said: "He was my bosom buddy friend to the end, one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation. This is just so sad to talk about.

Sonic Youth guitarist makes his 'proper song' debut...

Paul Schrader’s long unavailable ‘70s Viet vet revenge thriller now on DVD...

Using a Sinatra cut-up technique, and inspired by Vic Chesnutt's tragic death, Kurt Wagner and co's latest is a dark gem...

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

The grunge-blues giant returns, now digging deeper grooves and - shock! - nu disco...

A little over a month into 2012 and great new albums seem to be a-popping up all over the shop, something arriving in the post every day almost that either thrills or beguiles, demanding our attention and more often than not handsomely rewarding it. Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas was rightly applauded in last month's Uncut, and in the current issue similar praise is lavished on Lambchop’s Mr M, which reminds us why we have loved them for so long and also what it was in the first place that got us so excited about Kurt Wagner’s Nashville country-soul collective.

Black America’s militant years, captured on rediscovered Swedish documentaries. Right on!

Hot Chip will headline this year's Camp Bestival festival in Dorset.