Chic

Phase Two of Michigan singer/songwriter’s brilliant and audacious project: an album for every American state

British director and star inject dark thrills into the superhero franchise.

Buena Vista Clubhopper returns to LA roots with stunning album

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