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The events take place in Chelmsford and Staffordshire this weekend

As is pretty obvious, the arrival of the Kraftwerk remasters has been a significant distraction at Uncut this week - though as should be equally obvious, there are one or two other interesting new releases amidst this lot.

As the sky threatens to rain, we head into the safety of the Uncut tent to see Alela Diane.

A message that one of the Uncut team, Bud Scoppa, had filed his Top 25 tracks of the last six months inspired me this morning to do something similar.

A couple of records today that I’ve mysteriously failed to write about over the past month or two, both excellent.

I was making some notes on the new Sonic Youth album, “The Eternal”, this morning, when it occurred to me that writing “pop” down again and again was pretty absurd – one of those delusional fallacies that people who don’t listen to too much actual pop have, I guess, when a rock band starts working in a notionally punchy way.

See the 'Farm' track listing here

Read the full transcript from Uncut's Neil Young Archives Cover Story here

First off, an important plug for Allan's blog, where he's posted a preview of the new Bob Dylan album, "Together Through Life". No copy in the Uncut office as yet, but I'll try and write something myself when it turns up.

Read the full transcript from the Uncut cover feature here!