State of grace

All the info you need for this year's 'not just a music bash'

Chaos! Destruction! Ennui! An opulent masterpiece from pop's jaded bohemian

Seems my blog has been hijacked over the weekend by Steve Sutherland, who's clearly having the time of his life out at Coachella. Here's his second report, involving The Arcade Fire, Kings Of Leon, the mighty Roky Erickson and a few random Hollywood A-listers. God, it sounds great. . .

A few nice things arrived in the Uncut office today. One was a big compilation of Finnish psychedelic music from the late '60s and early '70s, which I can't wait to investigate properly. The second was another lavish raid on the Elektra catalogue, this time a 2CD set called "There Is A River" which collects the first three albums (plus outtakes) of David Ackles.

Profound, affecting second film in Eastwood's WWII diptych

Hook, Sumner, Morris – and Cunningham – return revived and reinspired in their 25th year

Fifth album from soft-rock maestro: a bittersweet farewell to his hometown

The follow-up to 2001's All Is Dream.

Southern-boy sensations experience growing pains on difficult second album

Ed Hamell – aka one-man folk-punk-poet-rock’n’roll protest singer Hamell On Trial and Uncut’s man in NYC – on the Republicans in New York and wild scenes in Alaska.