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Solid gold • Elton John reaches the end of his yellow brick road in front of a record-breaking Glasto crowd

Call the Cosmos! • Shaun Ryder, Zak Starkey, Andy Bell and Bez unveil their new “psychedelic psychotic” supergroup, Mantra Of The Cosmos

Just say Eno • The one and only Brian Eno gives us the inside track on his new ‘live concert series’. But don’t call it a tour…

“I feel different” • Virtuoso folk guitarist – and gyoza chef! – James Blackshaw returns a changed man after an eight-year hiatus

A Quick One

Horse Lords • From Baltimore to Berlin: instrumental avant-rockers thrive in pastures new

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

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

A SPECIAL GIFT FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS

JOAN JETT • The former Runaway and lifelong rock’n’roll champion talks beach gurus, British humour and the power of the guitar

BLUR • Ninth studio album delivers.

THE ROAD TO …DARREN • The best Blur and solo Damon signposts

Q&A • Graham Coxon: “Blur always sing about the world they find themselves in…”

RHIANNON GIDDENS • Accomplished tour d’horizon by prolific polymath.

Q&A • Rhiannon Giddens on her mission and method: “I believe a lot in kismet. I follow where I’m led”

PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED • Lydon at his tenderest, and also his most reactionary.

Q&A • John Lydon: “There is no Edgar Allan Poe in me…”

AtoZ • This month…

DOT ALLISON • “I never want to lose my sense of wonder…”

CUT WORMS • Cosmological reflections from the NYC savant

BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND • Triumphant new music from a rediscovered New Age folk pioneer.

Q&A • Beverly Glenn-Copeland on action and inspiration

BETH BOMBARA • St Louis-based singer-songwriter emerges afresh

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

BLAKE MILLS • Star sessioneer continues to confound.

Q&A • Blake Mills on his profoundly confessional songs

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY • Perfectly pitched charmer with a concerned core; Louisville locals assist.

HOW TO BUY • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

SALLY POTTER • “My hunger was to make music,” says the director

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER • MC Taylor’s 10th counters hard times with loose grooves.

Q&A • MC Taylor on bringing happiness

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR • Ruarri Joseph: “I needed to get my feet on the ground”

MELLOW CANDLE • Visionary-pastoral sole album from short-lived Hibernian folk-rock group.

HOW TO BUY • Three other fine albums of Irish psych folk

Q&A • Clodagh Simonds and Alison O’Donnell unfurl the Candle’s swaddling

AtoZ • This month…

JOHN COLTRANE WITH ERIC DOLPHY • Two masters caught...