Las Vegas band play London's Scala on June 22 and 23

Band will release 10th studio album on August 29

'Seeds We Sow' will come out on September 5

Pop-art shaggy dog tale about a confused gay student...

Revisiting Farmer Neil’s hard-hollerin’ country collective, as the Archives rummage reaches that difficult decade, the 1980s...

Harsh words, softly spoken: the gospel according to Paul...

Given we’re coming up to the end of June, I figured it should be time for this annual bit of anal-retentive album-crunching. A lot of fine records here , though not necessarily the 30 I might have envisaged at the start of 2011; as I’ve alluded to before, I feel like there have been a lot of eagerly-anticipated letdowns this year.

Yes, The Dude will be answering your questions very soon...

How many Wooden Shjips do you actually need? As someone who receives their records for free, I may not be in the best position to make that call. But as I was playing “West”, their third album, again this morning, at least a couple of songs began in a way which made me think of “We Ask You To Ride”, and I wondered: is it a blessing or a curse for all of your songs to be so instantly identifiable that they start blending into one another?

Guitarist says Stone Roses reunion rumours are 'a symptom of the times'