the green man

The Green Man festival in Wales is looking increasingly tempting this year - first off the destination, set in the lovely national park in the Brecon Beacons, amidst the sugar-loaf mountains, in the temperate heights of late August, is dead appealing. Secondly, the line-up is looking increasingly good - Vashti Bunyan, Gruff Rhys, Smog, Joanna Newsom, Robert Plant and, best of all, a headline set from the wonderful Steve Malkmus. Seriously thinking of going to this so let me know if you wanna come!

In the meantime, feast your heart on this set of new Malkmus material - nine new songs tried out and tested in Portland in January. Amazing stuff.