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About time! • The Rolling Stones bring out Irma Thomas to perform “Time Is On My Side”, the song they borrowed from her 60 years ago

Spirit of ’67 • Robyn Hitchcock’s new memoir and accompanying album revisit a pivotal year for himself and the world

Crazy to exist • The confounding young Scotland: why short-lived Postcard misfits Josef K continue to fascinate

A Quick One

“He wanted to bring everybody up together” • Smart, funny, generous and fiercely uncompromising – the underground rock revolutionary is remembered by those who were drawn to his righteous cause

RAW POWER • 10 essential Albini albums as bandleader and engineer

My sweet larynx • Dhani Harrison on joining forces with Tuvan throat singers Huun-Huur-Tu

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band • Louisville continues to punch above its weight in the oddball country-rock stakes

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Coast To Coast • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

WARREN ELLIS • The Dirty Three and Bad Seeds shaman talks air-fryers, punching violins and rescuing brain-damaged monkeys

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PAUL WELLER • Noel, Bobby, Suggs and more help out on the Modfather’s collab-happy birthday LP.

WOKING TOGETHER • Some of Weller’s other recent songwriting collaborations

Q&A • Paul Weller: “It pushed me in different areas”

CASSANDRA JENKINS • New Yorker’s third finds her still in love’s gutter, but staring at the stars with a fresh sense of hope.

Q&A • Cassandra Jenkins: “I write music for my friends”

AtoZ

THE FOLK IMPLOSION • Storied indie-rock duo’s first full-length in 25 years.

Q&A • Lou Barlow: “We take the ‘folk’ in our name seriously”

JOHN GRANT • “We were giggling with joy like schoolgirls!”

EIKO ISHIBASHI • Sublimely disquieting soundtrack to – and inspiration for – Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film.

Q&A • Eiko Ishibashi: “Mr Hamaguchi wrote about his thoughts regarding dust and garbage…”

DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE • Ex-Blaster and Flatlanders founder embark on a riveting metaphorical roadtrip

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

CINDY LEE • An out-of-the-blue magnum opus from the Canadian indie drag artist.

ZARA McFARLANE • On celebrating her “favourite vocalist”

MADELEINE PEYROUX • Jazz vocalist extends her style and themes.

Q&A • Madeleine Peyroux: “I need humour to survive”

TOM VERLAINE • A trio of the singular guitarist-singer’s under-appreciated mid-period LPs get a worthwhile reissue.

ADVENTURE IN SOUND • Earlier Tom Verlaine solo excursions appraised

Q&A • Patrick Derivaz and Jutta Koether: “See what happens when we play...