And it's a good night for Kate Nash, Klaxons and Muse

Jimi Hendrix's drummer dies at home in Austin

Earlier, I’d been telling someone that when I saw Pete Doherty at a small Soho club called Jazz After Dark, back in January 2006, it had occurred to me, no doubt somewhat fancifully, that this was to some perhaps small but nevertheless vital extent what it might have been like to see the fledgling Dylan in some bar in Greenwich Village, when the 60s were still young.

George A Romero's neat reboot of his Zombie franchise

Film-lore fantasy gives legend a murder to solve

As regular readers may have spotted, I’ve been droning on about the second Howlin Rain album since the end of last summer, when an early copy reached me by mildly nefarious means. I’ve regularly postponed blogging on “Magnificent Fiend”, mainly because Rick Rubin signed up the band in the States and the release date has been unusually volatile (it’s now due out in April in the UK, possibly a little earlier in the US). The other reason for the delay, though, is that I’ve played it so much, it’s weirdly become harder to write about. It’s time, though, to attempt to do it justice: though I usually try and avoid crude empirical hype, it’s hard for me to imagine many better rock albums will be released in 1974. Or even in 2008.

Re-live the trios mammoth Stadium shows on a big screen near you!

They will also be signing copies of new album in London

The Scorsese-directed Shine A Light opens in the UK this April

Supporting new album, former Pavement star to play UK in June