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R.E.M. are onboard to help celebrate Uncut's tenth birthday next week

The former Beatles' audience includes bandmate Ringo Starr

Countdown to Uncut's spectacular new issue, Happy Birthday to us!

Deft DOC follows fallout of Dixiechicks' ‘bushgate’

Vivid sixth album from dependable dance duo

Melbourne’s instrumental post-rocker outlaws dust down old faithfuls

Out of all the burger-chain owning, cigar-chewing Eighties' action heroes, Bruce Willis was always the one I had the most time for.

Low-key poker drama plays a clever hand

A bit of a round-up today, since I've spent the past week or so reporting on gigs and messing about with the minutiae of putting a mag out. There is, amazingly, a new Karen Dalton album I'm very excited about, though I've only heard two tracks as yet.

I was thinking last night about the first time I saw The White Stripes. It was spring 2001, and I was in LA to interview Queens Of The Stone Age. The night before I met up with Josh Homme, I went to the Troubadour to see this duo who were just starting to be talked about a lot by some of the smarter music business people back home.