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There's a lot of static in the ether, as you may have detected, about the likelihood of a Led Zeppelin reunion sometime this autumn. That'd be nice, of course. But as I was listening to the new Robert Plant album for the first time this morning, it struck me: why would he bother going back there, when he's making records as good as this right now?

Band preview material from their follow-up to Simpatico

It's Fun Boy Two! As Lynval Golding joins Terry Hall onstage for more festival action

The nutty boys will play a handful of huge shows in December

The prog genius will be heard on the very big IMAX screens

Apologies for the deadly silence over here these past two weeks. We haven't run out out of good music worth writing about, of course: the good CDs kept turning up, it's just that I wasn't in the office to play them.

'The McCartney Years' features 40 promo videos and over 2 hours of live footage

Celebrating the Mod's Carnaby Street plaque being unveiled tomorrow

'Hound Dog' single is back in the UK Top 20