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Philanthropy in the UK! • Sex Pistols reform – with Frank Carter as Johnny Rotten – to raise funds for historic London venue Bush Hall

AI can’t make it • The notion of an AI-enhanced Steve Marriott is rubbished by his surviving Small Faces and Humble Pie bandmates

From Harlesden they come • The story of The Cimarons, Britain’s first reggae band

New king at Newport • Photographer Edward Grazda on shadowing Bob Dylan at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival

Peaks district • Texan singer Chrystabell on her latest collaboration with David Lynch and the late Angelo Badalamenti

A Quick One

Jacken Elswyth • Skilled banjo player – and maker! – embracing the weirdness of British folk traditions

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

A JOHN LENNON EXCLUSIVE!

MIKE CAMPBELL • The Heartbreaker turned Dirty Knob talks Petty, Diddley, Dylan and touring the British Isles in a bread van

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JAKE XERXES FUSSELL • From Prestatyn to Peru, an inspired “interpreter of traditional song” casts his net wide.

GEORGIA PEACHES • How to buy Jake Xerxes Fussell

Q&A • Jake Xerxes Fussell: “Listening back to it now, I think it’s an album about travelling”

MILTON NASCIMENTO & ESPERANZA SPALDING • US jazz luminary plugs into a distinctive Brazilian soundworld.

Q&A • Esperanza Spalding on working with her “dream collaborator”

AtoZ

SHELLAC • The thoughtful but reliably savage last bow of Steve Albini and co.

DEEP PURPLE • Ian Paice on the evergreen Purple: “We rock just as hard”

BEAK> • Bristol trio turn reflective, with judicious wallop.

Q&A • Geoff Barrow: “It was time to have a long hard look at ourselves”

AMERICAN AQUARIUM • Ruminative, hard-charging 10th from North Carolina sextet

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

LIANA FLORES • The Norfolk singer-songwriter blending Brit-folk and bossa nova

MABE FRATTI • Cello from the other side: Guatemalan experimentalist hits a groovy sweet spot.

Q&A • Mabe Fratti: “It’s good to have this sensation of not knowing…”

REDD KROSS • For their eighth LP, the McDonald brothers go large: “The vibe was there”

SUSS • Veteran instrumentalists traverse dusky, barren landscapes on a definitive fifth album.

Q&A • As SUSS explain, it’s a vibe, not a travelogue…

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS • Politically-minded concept album gets a timely reissue.

THE OLD NEW SOUTH • Drive-By Truckers at their storytelling best

Q&A • Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley: “It’s more timely now”

NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE • From 1969, the earliest whinnyings of Crazy Horse.

AtoZ • This month…

LOUIS ARMSTRONG • Live at...