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The duo will bring their ballads to the UK for four shows in June

The coolest show on radio

Spiritualized also amaze invite-only crowd at London's Air Studios

Jimi Hendrix's drummer dies at home in Austin

A National Portrait Gallery Exhibition coincides with his visit to London

Improbably, they find a way to get better than ever

Will Oldham transforms transgender harpist

I’ve just been reading your comments on yesterday’s Vampire Weekend blog – thanks for those. They helped me crystallise my thoughts about that much-vaunted African influence on the album. What’s interesting, I think, is not that they draw on African sounds, but how they point up the affinities between that spindly, melodically cartwheeling guitar sound and the indie-rock tradition.

A monumental work of American gothic about greed, oil and murder, starring Daniel Day-Lewis

Van's homely 1971 effort reissued