Quite a curious, though vaguely welcome, phenomenon in London at the moment, where a few American garage and artpunk bands appear to have been adopted by the sort of fashion scene who normally favour pseudo-transgressive electro over gnarly old rock'n'roll. The belated deification of Les Savy Fav is probably the most obvious manifestation of all this. But the sudden prominence of a sloppy-as-hell garage band from Atlanta is definitely another.

They say 'Californication' is their 'identity'

The Queen guitarist celebrates with a veggie roast!

Amazing cover of 'Satisfaction'

Bruce Dickinson and band announce first ever Stadium date

Apologies there was no blog on Friday: I spent the day at home, mucking about with several thousand CDs and trying, successfully, to buy My Bloody Valentine tickets. Today has been another complicated one of meetings and Italian lessons and list-making, but it did come to a happy zenith about an hour ago when we saluted the undervalued excellence of U-God, footsoldier of the Wu-Tang Clan and one of the stars of their new "8 Diagrams" album, which miraculously arrived in the office this morning.

Hail a Tuk Tuk from Wednesday!

Dave Grohl and co to play Wembley

The band kick off Ally Pally treble with tributes to The Smiths and New Order too

The guitarist says it's been 'exhilarating'