ENNIO MORRICONE

Class of '09 grads think bigger; wilder.

Calexico’s new album, Algiers, is reviewed in the current issue of Uncut (October 2012, Take 185) – so we thought we’d take a trip back to April 2003 (Take 71), when Uncut’s John Mulvey flew out to Tucson, Arizona to discover more about the duo’s redrawing of the alt.country map. __________________________

A fine digest of Calexico in a handsome, limited edition box set...

Guided by Richard Hawley, The Twang remains, majestically, The Thang...

Sweet folk, baroque pop and free jazz! Robin Pecknold weighs his emotional baggage on beautiful second...

Producer’s homage to Enrico Morricone gets a release date

Their final album, but a great introduction to a world of esoteric, hallucinatory music...

Further far-out adventures in crate-digging exotica...

'Rome' also features Norah Jones

As Bob Dylan, garbed in another of the natty Pimp-My-Confederate-General ensembles that have served as his working clothes these past few years, steps onto the stage of the Playhouse in Edinburgh on Sunday night into a jolting “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”, there is the small matter of him having just this afternoon officially clocked up his first Number One (with a bullet!) album in the UK for almost 40 years.