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The 2013 Academy Award nominations were announced today [January 10]. The full awards ceremony will take place on February 7. The nominations in the key categories are: BEST PICTURE Amour Argo Django Unchained Les Misérables Life Of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Beasts Of The Southern Wild Silver Linings Playbook BEST DIRECTOR Amour - Michael Haneke Beasts Of The Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin Life Of Pi - Ang Lee Lincoln - Steven Spielberg Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell BEST ACTOR

If you’re feeling withdrawal symptoms after the glut of end-of-year charts last month, I cooked this up for the latest edition of Uncut…

Before Melody Maker swept me off the street in the manner of a benevolent old codger taking a pallid waif into his kindly, white-haired care in something written to make you weep by the venerable Dickens, I worked for a bleak season or two in the mail order department of a bookstore near Piccadilly Circus.

Bob Mould has revealed a clip of his band performing live with Dave Grohl as he seeks funds to launch a new career spanning documentary.

The two sides of Scott-Heron - his early work collected in all its trailblazing glory...

The 12-12-12: Concert For Sandy Relief took place last night (December 12) at Madison Square Garden in New York, with Sir Paul McCartney performing with Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic.

Bruce Springsteen was joined onstage by Mike Ness of Social Distortion and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine at his show at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Orange County near Los Angeles (December 4).

You’ll hopefully have spotted Uncut’s Films Of The Year in our current issue. High up the Top 10 is the brilliant Berberian Sound Studio, director Peter Strickland’s spin on low-rent 70s Italian horror movies and a tribute to the Heath Robinson-style endeavours of foley artists and sound designers of a certain generation. Ahead of the film's imminent release of the film on DVD – and Broadcast’s score in the New Year – I caught up with Peter Strickland to chat about the film and his influences.

In the current issue of Uncut, I spoke to Bryan Ferry for our An Audience With… feature. Among the reader questions was one from Rob Emery, who asked ‘Why do you think Roxy Music got through so many bass players?’

Pounding folk debut album from Denver, Colorado-based trio...