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“She was unstoppable” TINA TURNER | 1939–2023 • All hail the Queen of Rock’n’Roll: an explosive singer who kept on burning

This is ’ello! • Blur debut songs from their new album at fevered comeback show in Colchester

Pencil logic • This is the day of the expanding Dan! A colourful new book responds to burgeoning Steely Dan-ia

Spellbound! • As Siouxsie Sioux returns to the fray, we salute her influential post-punk reign in 20 songs

Smell the Coffi • From power drills to powerpop: Gruff Rhys revisits his pre-SFA band, Ffa Coffi Pawb

A QUICK ONE

Nico Paulo • Magical, Tropicália-tinged indie-folk from Newfoundland via Portugal

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

Now Playing • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

Adam Granduciel • The War On Drugs chief talks new material, hair waivers, ruptured discs and shooting the breeze with Mick and Bruce

PJ HARVEY • Hark! The unsettling sound of a Dorset childhood.

{HARVEY’S CREAM} • On the road to I Inside… – three vital Parish/Flood collaborations

Q&A • Flood: “We were trying to coax her into a place where she wasn’t ‘PJ Harvey’ but she was Polly

JONI MITCHELL • A triumphant return last year marked the singer’s first live show in two decades.

AtoZ • This month…

GRIAN CHATTEN • Fontaines DC frontman confronts personal demons on impressive solo debut.

Q&A • Grian Chatten: “It’s how I felt in the moment”

MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY • Sparkling fourth from Nashville-based Californian

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE • Josh Homme’s personal demons are exorcised in vintage QOTSA style.

Q&A • Josh Homme “You can start The Wizard Of Oz now”

THE CLIENTELE • MacLean and co venture onwards.

Q&A • Alasdair MacLean: “Turns out there’s a thing called sampling…”

LYR • Simon Armitage “I’m in my favourite band!”

JULIE BYRNE • Buffalo native’s rhapsodic, sonically expanded third, with a tragic sting in its tail.

Q&A • Julie Byrne: “I live with my grief…"

THIS IS THE KIT • Kate Stables on the comforting influence of "chugalong"

SAM BURTON • The LA-based songwriter’s second album is haunted by the past but offers prospects for the years ahead.

Q&A • Sam Burton opens up his “inner world”

CODEINE • Slowcore pioneers’ landmark releases smoulder anew.

NEW PRESCRIPTION • Three more ‘slowcore’ masterpieces that followed Codeine

Q&A • Chris Brokaw:“We were learning as we went along”

CHARLIE WATTS • The late Stone’s lone forays collected, with new material unearthed.

AtoZ • This month…

GAL COSTA • Tropicália legend’s defining...