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It may be a stretch to call Joanna Newsom’s third album her down-to-earth pop record. "Have One On Me" does, after all, extend across three CDs of generally very long songs, features a harp duelling with a kora, and a dream sequence in which the singer arrives before her lover “on a palanquin made of the many bodies of beautiful women.” On the back of an elephant.

There’s a very interesting feature on Vampire Weekend in last week’s New Yorker, which includes a brilliantly ridiculous encounter while the band are on tour in California. With a documentary crew in tow, Vampire Weekend set about interviewing a bunch of allegedly notable Californian musicians, and fetch up at the operations centre of Blink 182’s Tom De Longe.

Psychic warfare study misses its target; George Clooney, Ewan MCGregor star

Wes Anderson animation tackles Roald Dahl’s book: Toy Story it ain’t.

More hobo blues, ruthlessly pared on fourth LP.

A big mention first off for our coverage from the Latitude Festival, which should be kicking off any minute now. The Uncut team will be blogging pretty much non-stop for the next three days, so please keep an eye on our dedicated blog for the first reviews of Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, Spiritualized and so on.

They were there: Rochdale to mark the town's musical heritage

The Louis Vuitton don ditches the rapping and the soul and is left with… well, not much, actually

Psych-pop faerie kings fire up the randomiser

Uncut readers pay tribute to the late Pink Floyd keyboardist who died last week