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Will Lost creator JJ Abrams' post-9/11 monster movie live up to the hyped viral campaign?

Lost creator JJ Abrams' post-9/11 monster movie finally opens in the UK

With the Texan flag pinned proudly to their stage amp, post-grunge instrumental four-piece Explosions In The Sky played a solid hour-long set to a rammed London Astoria, to finish up their long delayed UK tour last night...

Some big new entries on this latest playlist, not least the arrival of REM's much-anticipated "Accelerate".

More details emerge on one of the year's strangest albums

Van's homely 1971 effort reissued

The folk-rock legends return for a full UK jaunt

I'd say the key moment in Cloverfield -- just the very monster movie the post-9/11 world has been crying out for -- occurs while a giant creature of unknown origin lays spectacular waste to New York City, and one of the characters screams: "I AM SEEING THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW!"

Nice thing turned up in the post the other day from one of my favourite labels at the moment, Tompkins Square. The New York label tends to specialise in fingerpicking guitarists who are very much in the tradition of the Takoma school, which they categorise, neatly enough, as “American Primitive Guitar”.

Shine A Light soundtrack is due in March