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First things first: you can grab this one for free right now, by heading over to http://natchmusic.tumblr.com. As you’ll see there from the Tumblr’s subtitle, this marvellous Steve Gunn/Black Twig Pickers session is the first in a series of “collaborative recordings from Black Dirt Studio”; Black Dirt being a facility in upstate New York that’s birthed a bunch of superb records in the past few years.

All-star cap-doffer to one of the uncrowned kings of American roots...

Rocketjuice And The Moon, the new project featuring Damon Albarn, Flea and Tony Allen, will release their debut album on March 26.

A quick video to carry us through the weekend. I've been playing the new Starving Weirdos album, "Land Lines", for a few weeks now.

Gorillaz have announced that they will release a new track called 'DoYaThing' later this month.

The birth of the hippy dream, caught on camera...

Pitch black comedy from the team behind Juno...

For the past couple of years, I’ve been writing a Wild Mercury Sound column in the print edition of Uncut; a slightly awkward thing that I’m genuinely happy to be done with.

Jack White, has been added to the line-up for BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend event: a huge outdoor festival set to take place next summer to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games.

Bill Ward – drummer with Black Sabbath – has threatened to pull of the legendary heavy metal band's latest reunion.