Chic

Few figures have cast as big a shadow over rock’n’roll history as that of Bo Diddley.

Teenage Fanclub's guitarist and singer chats to Uncut from his Glasgow home.

On Polanski, weight loss and Nine Inch Nails.

New York’s next heroes – the perfect fusion of Duran Duran and The Strokes

The actress turned rock chick speaks to Uncut as she scrubs up for the BAFTAS in London

Sometime bartender, midwife and reverend, O'Connor's true calling may lie as a remarkable interpreter of song. Though recent years have found her adding dewy vocal harmonies for Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire (and Mavis Staples), her solo debut is long overdue. A brace of impressive originals—"My Backyard", "Tonight"—are whispers of classic honky-tonk, but she truly shines on covers of James (Squirrel Nut Zippers) Mathus' "Bottoms" and "Nightingale", twisting each into the kind of lovelorn ballad Alison Krauss would kill for.

Virginia's insurgent country queen dazzles on first live album

Evergreen hipster's tasteful remixes compiled

Shelved second album from recently rediscovered singer-songwriter

"We have a truck on fire ... we can't stop the dancing chicken..."In Werner Herzog's steady but bleak 1977 gaze at American badlands, Bruno S plays a Berlin street musician who goes in search of a better life in the US with hooker girlfriend (Eva Mattes) and mad old friend (Clemens Scheitz), but finds only the despairingly drab dead-end of rural Wisconsin. The movie lan Curtis watched the night he died.