No Rock And Roll Fun

OLD BANDS NEVER DIE: They just hover at the edge of your memory, regrouping, until they're ready to make a comeback. Sometimes it's good, like Mr Ray's Wig World, one of Liverpool's great lost acts (clue: they didn't want to be The Beatles), who were scheduled to make an almost-full-lineup reunion eight years after their final date. If anyone saw this, we'd love to hear how it went.

Sometimes it's just scary: Wilson Phillips are back. They never quite went away, of course, with Carnie turning herself into a poster girl for morbid obesity and the treatment thereof; but now they're back as a musical force. We've not heard any of what they've done yet, but we're guessing it's going to be as slim and blonde and uninteresting as they are.

And sometimes, it's more than triumphant. The new Loretta Lynn album is just wonderful, from the pieces we've heard. It's kind of lucky that, whatever sort of cunt he is, Jack White knows how to make music, and he's done a great job. Talking of White, there's a great mash-up pushing The White Stripes and Public Enemy together floating around at the moment. You can hear that, and a track from Loretta, at the start of last Wednesday's John Peel programme (it'll disappear sometime on the evening of the 12th May, so be quick.)