Stark first Stabs From The Songwriter's Songwriter

Remastered 1985 masterpiece with extra acoustic disc

Aston Martin! Limited edition 7” box set, plus extras

I've been meaning to write about the wonderful Marnie Stern album on Kill Rock Stars for a couple of weeks now. I was tipped off about it by one of Uncut's writers, Louis Pattison, who raved to me about it. She's "an extremely proficient one-woman axe hero," he wrote in an email, "a bit like Deerhoof but with better songs and added lead guitar power." Chuck in the battling influences of Sleater-Kinney and Lightning Bolt and damn, he was right.

Mick Jagger and co will play the O2 Arena twice

Their '79 Amsterdam club gig gets a second outing - with five bonus tracks

Madchester band involved in new television music channel

Gorillaz involved in the staging of ancient Chinese literature classic

Wayne Coyne has teamed up with West Wing creator to write a Pink Robots script

Music legends lend support to online betting venture