Chic

Big, back-to-roots comeback with T Bone Burnett supervising...

'Angels' is out in March

New Yorkers give away songtitles

Manic “screwball tragedy”, and an undisputed high point of ’60s British cinema...

Bassist Nikolai Fraiture confirms news via Facebook

Thanks, once again, to all of you who submitted your Top Tens of 2010 to the blog at the end of the year. I’ve now applied the dark mathematics and come up with a Top 50 from them, which provides an interesting - healthy, to be honest - contrast to my own list. The winner was ahead of the pack by a mile, incidentally…

Bassist Nikolai Fraiture says the album is currently being mixed

Self-raising sand! Staggering 16-disc time capsule, featuring 72 complete radio shows, all sponsored by the local flour mill...

Another good list this week, I reckon. Fairly predictable pleasure from the Howlin Rain EP that Ethan Miller snuck out the other day, on a break from what he describes as two years of pre-production on the next album with Rick Rubin. Very brave Hendrix cover, too.

Some next-level spam last night, in that someone/some bot tried posting, “I can't believe LeBron is going to the Bulls, he should really just stay where he is” on an old Elliott Smith blog. For what it’s worth, I can’t believe Notts have signed Ben Phillips this morning, either.