Fall

My girlfriend is Interpol's biggest fan. In the morning, I get 'Antics'. In the afternoon, 'Our Love To Admire'. In the evening 'No I In Threesome'. It's a good day which doesn't involve the 'Heinliech Manouevre'.

Razorlight, Interpol and Smashing Pumpkins headline rock festival opening day

The first clip of 'Shine A Light' surfaces

We celebrate the guitar maestro finally completing his astronomy thesis today

Everyday we highlight an artist worth seeing this Bank Holiday weekend

David Carradine reveals all in behind-the-scenes book out next month

Four-film set from the East Midlands Scorsese

The 51 tracks of the singer's 45 year career retrospective are here

It's been a couple of months since I wrote about Robert Wyatt's excellent "Comicopera", which still isn't out until October. In the meantime, one of Wyatt's old sparring partners has sneaked under the wire ahead of him. Kevin Ayers, of all people, has a new album out at the start of September, and it's rather good.

I guess there are a few recurring subjects on Wild Mercury Sound, little hives of activity that I seem to keep visiting again and again. Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label is one, and I need to tell you about the mighty new Magik Markers LP sometime soon. But the extended, diverse and interwoven Thompson and Wainwright folk dynasties is definitely another.