...Sam Jones' documentary movie I am tyring to break your heart, chronicling the gestation of the last Wilco album, gets it's first UK screenings as part of the London Film Festival next month...

Meanwhile..."Shiny things compares favourably to Wilco at their best...the most complete alternative-Americana album of the year". Easy, Tiger! Saturday's Independent goes ever-so-slightly overboard in catching up with reallyrather's promotion of the new album from Sacramento's Jackpot...

...also just out, Water hymns from everybody's favourite party dudes Noahjohn - more dance anthems & frivolous pop ditties about cars 'n' girls than you can shake a stick at. Or maybe not...

'I cannot recommend highly enough that you go and check them out. [They] are simply awesome' - the Edinburgh Evening News concluding it's review of last week's show in much same vein every other write-up of The Polyphonic Spree live experience (except, of course, this bloke's). And they're all absolutely right. Here they are full flight in Northampton, and someone at last night's Shepherd's Bush Empire show has wasted no time in uploading this snatch of Section 9 - fair brings a lump to throat. Will they be able to come across on 'live' TV? Find out on Later, Nov 8...