It may be a sentiment that would be easy to scoff at, but there’s something to be said about seeing a band on one of these “victory-lap” tours; the sense of accomplishment that emanates from the band themselves, the heightened sense of communal experience that the audience shares. Grizzly Bear already supported their most recent effort Veckatimest in the UK with a smattering of dates around the time of its 2009 release. As soon as it was unleashed, it was clear what that stellar album would do for the band’s career, and now they’re back to demonstrate it, the venues bigger and their profile higher than ever before.

YOU'VE PROBABLY heard already, but the BBC last week confirmed plans to axe the discerning music fan’s favourite radio station, 6 Music, as part of a range of cuts that the Director General says will allow the corporation to produce quality over quantity. There has already been a huge amount of opposition to this, with many musicians and DJs (including David bloody Bowie!) speaking out against the move.

In 2003, The Radio Dept released Lesser Matters, a lovely shoe-gazey mini-masterpiece that the critics adored...and everyone else ignored.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month you’ll have heard of Owl City, otherwise known as Adam Young from Minnesota. His current single, ‘Fireflies’ is a song that’s as catchy as swine flu and twice as unpleasant, sitting atop the British singles chart right now as this review is being written after having reached number one across the pond as well.

In many ways it’s almost hard to believe that this record is actually being released; but, after being pushed back almost terminally, when Amazon erroneously shipped around 500 to customers two months ahead of schedule in December the entire prospect of Lil Wayne’s much discussed rock album became a whole lot more real. After lighting a fire under the ass of mainstream American hip-hop with 2008’s acclaimed “Tha Carter III”, he’s got free reign to do what he wants, and almost surreal levels of unpredictability were always a part of his whole thing anyway. But a rock album? The results are as frustrating as you’d expect.