Smith talks to Uncut about second album nerves

Expansive, emotional second

Boy wonder eases up: only his 9th LP in 7 years

Parisian house saviours drop debut album

Apologies for the lack of blogging action these past couple of days. I have a stack of excuses - perilous deadlines, aborted radio interviews, leaving the Super Furry Animals album at home, that sort of thing, as if you care. I'll try and write something about Super Furry Animals' "Hey Venus" in the next couple of days, as well as Richard Hawley, Caribou, Rilo Kiley, that Jason Isbell record I've been meaning to do something about for a month, and so on.

See the former Suede man in the Union Chapel next month

Fans get first dibs on tickets tomorrow

Dan Sartain joins the duo on 21-date tour

First UK festival in 31 years for the patron saints of rock

I’ve just finished reading Nick Tosches’ Hellfire, a jaw-dropping biography of Jerry Lee Lewis that is by common agreement the best book about rock’n’roll ever written. I’m reviewing it for next month’s Uncut, and can’t recommend it highly enough.