A few more nice things this week, not least the new Chris Forsyth album, which features some assistance from various bits of the Helix/Hans Chew axis. I think I might tackle them both for my next magazine column, but bear with me.

Hard shell, soft centre: the Motörhead man laid bare in warts’n’all doc… well almost...

Big, back-to-roots comeback with T Bone Burnett supervising...

She had suffered a stroke

Charlie Gilmour was seen swinging from the Cenotaph

The Coens – plus Jeff Bridges – take on John Wayne’s legacy. The result is a brilliant Western...

Plenty of interesting psych stuff accumulated here over the past few weeks, while I’ve been distracted by a bunch of other things. A bit of a roundup today, kicking off with Daughters Of The Sun, whose “Ghost With Chains” is forthcoming on Not Not Fun.

It's based on a fairytale

Nine Inch Nails man is celebrating an Oscar nomination

Nick Valensi lifts the lid on inter-band relationships