Some pretty big names in the mix this week, including a small rush of survivors from the American ‘80s underground: shame the Lemonheads’ covers album hasn’t arrived in time to complete the set.

Kevin Shields and co. resurface in the UK after New York success

A chaotic album of cover versions results

He tries the Wall of Sound on punk. It's his last for 25 years

Five ingredients of the Spector legend, explained

Capitol compile career-spanning remastered album for CD and digital

The singer will play at Brooklands in Surrey this Summer

There was allegedly a leak of the new Dirty Projectors album a couple of days ago, which means that yet again my dithering has robbed me of blogging exclusivity. The thing is, as I’ve mentioned a few times over the past month, I’ve been finding “Bitte Orca”, like its predecessors, somewhat intriguing and uncrackable. Today, I think I’m getting closer to understanding it.

A boldly brilliant work of protest and rage

Punk before they called it that. Weird.Loud. Thrilling.