Fall

Quietly excellent indie-folk alchemy, inspired by the Quebec wilderness...

Springsteen disciples deliver a massive rock’n’roll record...

Singer says it could only be a matter of months before the business 'completely folds'

Business as usual today after yesterday’s somewhat neurotic post. Many thanks to Dave C for hooking us up with a killer Endless Boogie jam from Primavera, which I’m in the thick of as I type.

Funny how some records take a while to bed in, no matter how much you play them, nor how often people you trust tell you how good they are. I’ve had something of an uncharacteristic writer’s block for the past week or so (hence the shortage of blogs; sorry about that), but when we had another go at the Avi Buffalo album yesterday, a few thoughts crystallised.

Unsettling lust-noir, with serious bodycount...

'Familial' has been recorded at the band's Oxford HQ

Beautifully autumnal pop-rock classicism from long-cherished Glaswegians....

Pasadena, California, October 2009: quality film of U2’s biggest ever US show, in various editions...

Many years back -- the last century, in fact -- when we were putting UNCUT together, Allan and I drew up a list of canonical film makers whose work would become central to the magazine’s editorial remit. Our A list included Scorsese, Tarantino, Peckinpah, Coppola, Stone, Hill, Hawks, Ford, Eastwood, and so on. In the intervening years, the list has pretty much stayed the same. With, arguably, one exception: Francis Ford Coppola.