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Today: the Uncut Music Award judges on Dirty Projectors' "Bitte Orca".

Uncut Music Award 2009 nominees to release 5 brand new tracks

Following on from yesterday's post about Tinariwen, here's a transcript of the Uncut Music Award judges discussing Animal Collective's "Merriweather Post Pavilion".

First in a series of live documents, from a time when EC was a bit, well, tasty…

Over the next few days, we'll be running full transcripts of the judges' meeting to decide the winner of 2009's Uncut Music Award. Today we begin with their thouhts on the winner, Tinariwen's "Imidiwan: Companions".

It perhaps says much about John Lennon – the callow 16-year old version, that is – that he’s really only a supporting character in his own biopic. This Lennon has yet to develop into the sardonic, quick-witted Beatle we know from interviews and newsreel footage. He’s not even quite the Lennon we saw in Ian Softley’s Backbeat, despite the events of that film taking place soon after Nowhere Boy finishes.

The band to commemorate 20 years since the wall came down

The Clash, Stones, Blur artwork also to feature on 10 new stamps

Recorded in London last year, new CD and DVD confirmed

Preview live collection of the Glitter and Doom tour now