He's also releasing a new best-of collection

Oxford band say 'thank you' to fans

The new Black Lips album – produced by Mark Ronson, weirdly – arrived yesterday, and reminded me of a couple of things. First, that I always feel unaccountably guilty for not liking Black Lips records as much as I think I should. And second, I actually have a bunch of good garage records that need writing about.

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US act have been away for two years

Julian Casablancas' band head to Scotland

Lewdly funny adventure fantasy. Bow down for a new star...

David Sitek and co decamp to LA, hot-rodding their arch art-rock with sunny celebration and West Coast weirdness...

Long-lost document of the pre-fame Bob: even then, a mercurial live performer...

An extra-long list this week, since we seem to have worked our way through more stuff than usual. A lot of good stuff, too, I’d say, with one or two exceptions, and a tremendous new mystery record that’s coming out in the summer and which hasn’t, I think, been announced as yet – hence the necessary evasiveness.