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Woo-hoo! • How photographer Tom Pallant snapped this award-winning shot of Blur’s Graham Coxon going wild at Wembley

Shiny happy people • Meet The Silverlites, a new folk-rock supergroup featuring members of REM, The Black Crowes and Screaming Trees

A Quick One

Keep on burning • Jesse Malin plots his return to the stage after suffering a spinal stroke last year: “It’s about persevering and making things happen…”

Vinyl testament • As part of Eilon Paz’s engrossing new book of enviable vinyl hoards, Tom Ravenscroft conducts a tour of his late father John Peel’s record collection

Fievel Is Glauque • Transatlantic duo – expanding to an octet in the studio – striving to make a beautiful mess

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

JOE BOYD • The folk-rock superproducer talks Syd, Sandy, 6am calls from Kubrick and ping-pong with John Cale

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WHITE DENIM • Twelve albums in, and after a relocation to LA, White Denim continue to expand into parts unknown.

GOING BLANC AGAIN • Key stops on White Denim’s creative journey

Q&A • James Petralli: “Make it different, make it true”

FATHER JOHN MISTY • Death and dark endings stalk this portmanteau of Josh Tillman’s greatest tricks.

AtoZ

SHOVEL DANCE COLLECTIVE • Further new twists on folk songbooks.

Q&A • Shovel Dance Collective “The dead come back to us in fleeting glimpses”

BALDRUIN • Johannes Schebler on blending sounds ancient and modern

HALEY HEYNDERICKX • Long-awaited second album from a Portland singersongwriter and her ghosts.

SILKROAD ENSEMBLE WITH RHIANNON GIDDENS • Dazzling multi-handed study of a crucial part in US history

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

LILI HOLLAND-FRICKE & SEAN ROGAN • On classical training, cellos and Wes Anderson

JEFF PARKER & ETA IVTET • Tortoise man’s freewheeling foursome.

Q&A • Jeff Parker: “It requires patience”

PRIMAL SCREAM • “We had to reinvent ourselves”

MICHAEL KIWANUKA • Mercury winner downsizes in style on carefully focused fourth album.

TREES SPEAK • Damian and Daniel Diaz: “The desert seeps into our sound”

BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND • The (near-enough) complete works of a comedy-rock institution.

FOUND HOUND SOUNDS • Three hidden gems unearthed in the Bonzos box

Q&A • Legs Larry Smith: “It’s the best way to educate people”

GEORGE HARRISON • Soul-baring second solo album proper, reissued.

Q&A • Olivia Harrison: “George could make a guitar ring”

AtoZ • This month…

RAY CHARLES • The Genius’s great crossover gambit revisited

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD • First vinyl issue of Dusty’s...