The 30th anniversary jaunt was captured on film

First UK band to join ranks of Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and many others

Following on from Chapel show news, more places to see the pair

A news story in my inbox the other day reminded me that I still hadn’t blogged on the El Guincho record, the one I’ve been alluding to on playlist blogs for a while now. I say “a while”, though in truth I was heinously late hitching up to this particular bandwagon, since most go-getting bloggers were onto “Alegranza” sometime last year, when it was first released in Spain.

AC/DC, Queen, Neil Young, REM, Pink Floyd plus more in our round up!

Saturday evening at the last and finest mini-festival of late summer, and Minnesota’s most rock’n’roll Mormons can no longer turn the other cheek. Grinding to a halt between glacially slow riffs, LOW guitarist Alan Sparhawk makes an extraordinary appeal for audience sympathy.

Kings of Leon also score first ever number one single!

The band also praise Elbow for their Mercury Prize win

Bespoke theatre space to be built for the Albarn and Hewlett collaboration

Rocking against all odds - the story of Acrassicauda