You can hear Arcade Fire's new track 'Abraham's Daughter', which is taken from the soundtrack to the new fantasy film The Hunger Games, by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.
Spiritualized, Wilco and Field Music are among the first acts to be confirmed for this summer's Wilderness Festival.
The festival, which made its debut last year, takes place on August 10-12 in Oxfordshire's Cornbury Park.
Also confirmed to play at this year's event are Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Stornoway, Lianne La Havas, London Folk Guild, Cloud Control, Grant Lee Buffalo and a host of others.
The new April issue of Uncut, out now, features a fascinating look at the history of Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio, which brought the world Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and others. Elvis Presley was one future star who cut his debut recordings at the Memphis studio – and in this archive piece from the fourth ever issue of Uncut (September 1997), comedian Frank Skinner talks about the King’s early years and the huge impact the Sun recordings had on him.
Thanks to Damien Love for reminding me to blog about this. It's been on my radar for a couple of weeks, but it's only since Damien emailed me a Youtube link to a trailer earlier today that I've finally got something to write about.
Peter Hook has branded 'Aerial', a track that surfaced online this week that purported to be an unreleased song from Joy Division's seminal album 'Unknown Pleasures' as a "bloody awful hoax".