end of the road

It begins as you might imagine, with a guitarist who seems about to play a sputtering solo rather than start a song, a drummer trying to work out what time to keep and, gradually, a band lunging towards a tune: “Oh Susannah”.

Career. Commitment. Can this really be The Shins? It surely can...

Jack White has said there is "absolutely no chance" he will ever reform The White Stripes and said he would only consider it if he "went bankrupt".

Public Image Ltd. officially kicked off the build-up to this year's Record Store Day last night (March 19), playing a basement gig in London to mark the announcement of the special releases for this year's event, set for April 21.

Bruce Springsteen's onstage collaboration with Arcade Fire and Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello at this year's SXSW has been posted online – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to watch.

Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood has said he doesn't believe the band will ever tour together again.

Mumford And Sons will play for David Cameron and Barack Obama at a state dinner at the White House tonight (March 14).

The Rolling Stones have delayed their 50th anniversary tour until 2013, according to reports.

Thanks for all your kind words over the past couple of weeks about the relaunched mag. I know this will undoubtedly read like self-justifying hype on our part, but we have been genuinely thrilled and overwhelmed by how positive the response has been.

The new April issue of Uncut, out now, features David Bowie peering from the cover in his guise as sleazy space-star Ziggy Stardust. To celebrate this look at Bowie’s greatest creation 40 years on, here’s a fantastic piece from Uncut’s 18th issue, in November 1998, in which Chris Roberts looks back at the glammed-up, transgressive superstars who changed his adolescent world.