Tomorrow

The Boss is giving Working On A Dream away as a free download on iTunes and his own site

I found this morning a decent MP3 stream of the Dead’s Obama benefit show from last month, which has just started playing as I write. The tracklisting looks great – including “Slipknot”, “Help On The Way”, “Franklin’s Tower”, “Dark Star”, “St Stephen” and, fantastically, “Unbroken Chain”.And the starting “Truckin’”, which has been going for a good while now, sounds pretty healthy. Maybe some of the more experienced Deadheads among you could hunt it down and let me know what you think.

Today, the judges get to grips with The Raconteurs. Radiohead coming up tomorrow.

Day Five, and we get to Fleet Foxes, and the judges' conversation which resulted in them winning the first Uncut Music Award. Tomorrow, by the way, The Raconteurs.

The follow-up to Magic set for release in the New Year

And on we go with the judges' discussions. Today: The Felice Brothers. Tomorrow: Fleet Foxes.

Episode Three of our judge's discussions, and today we find them discussing Drive-By Truckers. Tomorrow, The Felice Brothers.

A bumper list this week, as the 2009 releases start arriving in the Uncut office. Not everything here is going down ecstatically, but a first listen to the new Fennesz album today suggests that one was well worth waiting for. In the continuing absence of those My Bloody Valentine reissues, let alone any unreleased material from Kevin Shields’ archives, “Black Sea” really deserves to bring Christian Fennesz to a wider audience, I think.

As promised, here are the judges discussing Bon Iver's "For Emma, Forever Ago". Tomorrow, find out what they had to say about Elbow.

Paul McCartney soars out of his comfort zone