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Motown bunk! • A new photobook documents the young Manics’ journey from bedroom to Top 10
Soundtrack of his life • John Murry and Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins on writing the music for a new film about… John Murry!
“It’s just so powerful” • Dawn Landes on bringing The Liberated Woman’s Songbook to life, with a little help from Peggy Seeger
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Reptile be back • Incendiary Austin noise-punks The Jesus Lizard return with their first album of the 21st century
MJ Lenderman • Wednesday guitarist joins a rich tradition of storytelling Southern rock
Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…
On The Highway • 15 tracks of the month’s best music
STEVE DIGGLE • The Buzzcocks bosun talks acid, existentialism, accidental genius and missing Pete Shelley
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ALAN SPARHAWK • Deep emotions and trap beats mark the Low cofounder’s intimate solo debut.
NOT SO LOW • Some of Sparhawk’s extracurricular activities
Q&A • Alan Sparhawk has had his mind “cracked open”…
NICK LOWE • Intermittent studio forays collated for a vibrant ‘new’ album.
Q&A • Nick Lowe: “We released the demos before the album”
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LAURIE ANDERSON • New York avant-garde doyenne’s flight of fancy.
Q&A • Laurie Anderson: “How do you know what’s in someone’s head?”
ENUMCLAW • Aramis Johnson: “I can’t pay rent off this band”
NILÜFER YANYA • Londoner’s self-exploratory third.
Q&A • Nilüfer Yanya: “We were the only judges at the end of the day”
SHOVELS & ROPE • Charleston duo strip back, plug in and embrace their core aesthetic
AMERICANA ROUND-UP
ANDREW TUTTLE / MICHAEL CHAPMAN • A magical posthumous team-up.
Q&A • Andrew Tuttle and Andru Chapman: “I thought, yes…”
KRONONAUT • Leo Abrahams: “We’re travelling through time”
EL KHAT • Third album of gloriously wonky DIY noise-rock poetry from globe-trotting Yemeni-Jewish trio.
Q&A • El Khat’s Eyal El Wahab: “My identity should not matter”
MARK LANEGAN BAND • Forty-track anniversary boxset expands on the original album’s story.
LANDMARK RELEASES • Three more pivotal records from Lanegan’s mighty discography
Q&A • Troy Van Leeuwen & Brian Klein (executive producer of Bubblegum XX, and Lanegan’s former manager)
TEN YEARS AFTER • A career-defining show at an era-defining event.
Q&A • Leo Lyons, bassist: “There was a downpour like I’d never seen”
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STUART MOXHAM • Lost sketches of a Young Marble Giant
DOROTHY CARTER • The folk mystic’s finest hour revisited.
Q&A • Eric Demby, reissue producer...