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Rebirth of cagoule • Liam Gallagher and John Squire team up for a formidable Manchester mind-meld

“An explosion of energy” • Kristin Hersh, Giant Sand and The Dream Syndicate join forces to celebrate Fire Records’ 40th anniversary

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Back to the garden • Forty years on, Virginia Astley returns to the idyllic pastures of her cult debut

Edge of time • A new book chronicles the original flowering of British jazz, record sleeve by rare record sleeve

Conchúr White • The Portadown songwriter tapping into our “collective unconscious”

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Deep Roots • A celebration of Topic Records

AN AUDIENCE WITH… SQUEEZE • Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook talk Deptford haunts, Cale and Cliff, and why some shows go better with a box of Maltesers

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BRITTANY HOWARD • Unguarded emotion and bolder sonic invention on her solo second.

GRANDADDY • Jason Lytle takes country-rock on a love-lorn mystery tour.

AtoZ • This month…

NADINE SHAH • After a hellish few years, this versatile songwriter produces her best work to date.

THE SMILE • Yorke, Greenwood and Skinner match Radiohead for challenges, surprises and beauty.

CORB LUND • All-acoustic jamboree from prolific Canadian

MGMT • “There’s not much irony and sarcasm this time”

AZIZA BRAHIM • Eloquent songs of resistance from the Western Sahara.

RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND • Sprawl, swagger, poetry and epics.

MARY TIMONY • On the painful circumstances behind Untame The Tiger

SONIC YOUTH • Live bootleg collection from 1985 gets a long-awaited (if perhaps not welcomed by all) expanded reissue.

PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS • Fifty years on, Macca’s miracle continues to define his essence.

AtoZ • This month…

SCOTT FAGAN • Appealingly oddball first from a star forever in waiting

GARCIA & FRIENDS • The best of Jerry’s collaborations

LOU REED • Zen instrumentals from downtown.

VARIOUS ARTISTS • Bowie goes Berlin, music quakes – here’s the fall-out

“A giant, a singular genıus” • With his lyrical songwriting – full of humour, despair and hope – SHANE MacGOWAN was an ardent chronicler of the human condition. Here, Spider Stacy, James Fearnley and Jem Finer share their memories of their former Pogues bandmate: “His gifts were incomparable,” hears Graeme Thomson. Meanwhile, on page 58 we revisit an encounter with MacGowan where he talks through the music that inspired him.

‘NOW, THE SONG IS NEARLY OVER’ • 10 of MacGowan’s finest

A FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK • The birth of a classic

“We did the feedback with a banjo” • In late 1994, SHANE MacGOWAN sat down with Melody Maker in...