Melodic punks' first three LPs reissued in 2CD editions

Shiny hippy people: intoxicating psychedelic grooves from the New Mexican desert

Today: Uncut presents musical director Javier Mas' view of Cohen on the road

A slightly tenuous connection, but it’s odd to think that, when the record I blogged about yesterday, “Brighten The Corners”, first came out, Damon Albarn was at the height of his Pavement phase. I remember going to see Pavement in Oxford on that tour (“Westie Can Drum”, “The Killing Moon”. . .) and Albarn was there with Justine Frischmann, looking conspicuously inconspicuous in a baseball cap pulled down low.

Uncut presents extended transcripts with those on the road with the icon

Longtime promoter Harvey Goldsmith says it's 'pointless'

And still the Animal Collective fans keep coming, with a few requests for the durations of the “Merriweather Post Pavilion” tracks. Here they come: bear in mind that “Brothersport” could easily go on for another five or ten minutes as far as I’m concerned.

As new early 70s collection is released, the pair speak about how the band formed

A few weeks ago now, I blogged about the third Brightblack Morning Light, “Motion To Rejoin”. In the interim, I’ve played it to death, decided it’s one of my favourite albums of 2008, and written about it at length for the new issue of Uncut.

Final installment of Uncut's exclusive Tell Tale Signs online series!