A round up of today’s pranks

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend to close the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs

Plus Lemonheads reissue, Ardent Records and our recommended release round-up

It’s only their fourth album in 18 years but Kim and Kelley Deal remain defiantly nonchalant

Evan Dando’s deceptively sunny breakthrough, plus demos and DVD and Q&A

Sonic chronicle of the Memphis label that nurtured Big Star; plus Q&A with Jinm Ardent, the label's founder

Public vote for best remix of 'Nude'

One of those professional obligation sessions in the Uncut office right now: we’re on Track Eight of the Panic At The Disco album, “Pretty. Odd”. Interest piqued by some frothing and slightly dubious suggestions that “Pretty. Odd” is a landmark of WEIRD! and AMBITIOUS! rock music, imagine our surprise when it seems to sound a bit like The Feeling and those shabby Beatles pastiches that Tears For Fears came up with in the ‘80s. We do, however, have new records by Paul Weller, Peter Walker and James Blackshaw.

The Mancunian Candidates: tipped indie scallywags

McCulloch and co will perform Ocean Rain in full at hometown gig