Apologies that blogs were a bit thin on the ground last week: as I maybe mentioned, I got pretty caught up in collating your Great Lost Albums into a Top 50 to run in the issue out at the end of June. A surfeit of great stuff there, and I’ll post some of your suggestions that didn’t make the 50 here in a couple of weeks or so.

Singer is sectioned following bizarre public appearances

Modfather to play internet show this Thursday (May 27)

Band issue statement in relation to Australian media reports

The Brooklynites set sail for the big time with their fifth LP...

More righteous, redemptive, endlessly literate rock’n’roll. But this time, things are rather more personal...

Jack White’s latest leather-clad lab experiment yields mostly familiar blues-rocking results. ...

An email over the weekend from Mark Golley, who's gone over to the States to catch a few dates on the solo tour Neil Young's doing with Bert Jansch in support. It's really interesting stuff about Young's latest capricious and intriguing career swerve - "performance and spook in equal measure" - so I figured that, with Mark's permission, I'd reprint it here.

'The Suburbs'/'Month Of May' is set to be released 'in the next couple of weeks'

Isle Of Wight bash takes place at the end of August