Charlie Kaufman's intricate, fearless directorial debut exhilarates

I was making some notes on the new Sonic Youth album, “The Eternal”, this morning, when it occurred to me that writing “pop” down again and again was pretty absurd – one of those delusional fallacies that people who don’t listen to too much actual pop have, I guess, when a rock band starts working in a notionally punchy way.

Wigs! Wagner! Rick Wakeman! Music composed by Roger Daltrey

Jack White says new album could be out next year

Pink Floyd guitarist to appear with Amadou and Mariam for Crisis

Dave Gorman, Jo Brand Keith Allen amongst the latest line-up

There’s a telling clip buried somewhere in “Archives Volume One”, where Neil Young is poring over a tableful of photographs and clippings with Joel Bernstein. Here, it seems, everything is ready for this release. Young talks enthusiastically about the recording of the Massey Hall show he’s been listening to – and then you notice the date of the footage. It is 1997. Not only has Young been talking up this project for decades, he also seems to have had most of the material sorted and to hand for most of that time.

The Atlanta band celebrate 25th anniversary of 2nd album

A concept album, and refreshingly, unexpectedly excellent

All-covers homage to his mentor, Townes Van Zandt