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Inside the museum

…Infinity goes up on trial: the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa prepares to open its doors

No Pain, no gain

The remarkable resurrection of ’60s soul powerhouse, Ural Thomas

A QUICK ONE

Pump it up! With the man himself about

“It was a magical session”

Brian Eno on his new collaborations with Hot Chip and Michael Stipe for Earth Day

Alternative nation

A new book explores how SST Records defined America’s ’80s rock underground before imploding in acrimony

Whitney K

Nomadic Canadian channelling magical realism, country rock and Lou Reed

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On the stereo this month

Main Sounds

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

Glen Matlock

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SHARON VAN ETTEN

We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong JAGJAGUWAR

MAGIC CHORDS

Sharon Van Etten’s finest moments

Q&A

Sharon Van Etten:“You need to dive in or you lose your mind. I need assignments…”

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER

Endless Rooms

Q&A

Fran Keaney: “We played late into the night”

A to Z

This month…

BONNIE RAITT

Just Like That…

Q&A

Bonnie Raitt on friends new and old

JOHN DOE

The former X man on mining a chequered American past

THE AMERICANS

Stand True LOOSE 8/10

KIKIKAGAKU MOYO

Kumoyo Island GURUGURUBRAIN 8/10

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Go Kurosawa: “We cross many genres…”

LEYLA McCALLA

On a personal musical journey to understand Haiti

KEVIN MORBY

This Is A Photograph DEAD OCEANS 9/10

Q&A

Kevin Morby: “I thought about vocals a lot more”

TOMBERLIN

The elegantly understated songwriter on learning to let go

ARCADE FIRE

We COLUMBIA 8/10

? AND THE MYSTERIANS

96 Tears/Action (reissues, 1966, ’67) ABKCO

ORIGINAL ARTYFACTS

Great albums by stars of the Nuggets compilation

Q&A

Mysterians guitarist Bobby Balderrama: “We definitely had a certain sound”

NORAH JONES

Come Away With Me: Super Deluxe Edition BLUE NOTE 9/10

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This month…

NEIL YOUNG

Official Bootleg Series: Royce Hall, 1971/ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1971/Citizen Kane Jr Blues (Live The Bottom Line) WARNERS 7/10, 8/10, 9/10

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SANDY DENNY

Early Home Recordings EARTH 7/10

TERRY ALLEN & THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND

REDISCOVERED Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI & NEW DIRECTION UNIT

Masayuki Takayanagi & New Direction Unit play the

SONGS OF DEVOTION

AROOJ AFTAB’s stunning Vulture Prince album was one of 2021’s finest releases, a work of refined, minimalist rapture, dedicated to her late brother. But the Brooklyn-based singer and composer is no sensitive artiste. Fresh from winning a Grammy, the self-confessed hedonist tells Sam Richards about the full extent of her ambitions – and why she needs to ride the social whirl in order to make music: “Being in the centre of many energies is inspiring to me…”

VULTURE PEEPS

The key players in Aftab’s inner circle

“IT’S REALLY EFFORTLESS”

Arooj Aftab and Shahzad Ismaily on their improv jazz trio, Love In Exile

SHINE A LIGHT

A band on the run. A decadent mansion in the South of France. One song called “Bent Green Needles” and another about Brian Jones. A double album that, against all odds, became the creators’ most iconic work. Fifty years since the release of Exile On Main St a crack team of Stones heads – including CAT POWER, ADAM GRANDUCIEL, BILLY GIBBONS, MIKE SCOTT, JENNIFER HERREMA, STEVE GUNN, J MASCIS, BOBBY GILLESPIE and KURT VILE – dig deep into THE ROLLING STONES’ very own Basement Tapes. “Exile… has got everything…”

“A DIFFERENT KIND OF CREATIVITY”

Rolling Stones Records boss MARSHALL CHESS on the Stones’ Basement Tapes

“ROCK’N’ROLL WAS DEAD!”

In 1986, NYC noise-punks Pussy Galore re-recorded Exile On Main Street. Here, former frontman JON SPENCER tells all…

Mersey Mercy Me

Rejoice! After a five-year absence, the return of MICHAEL HEAD – aka England’s greatest living songwriter – is upon us. Rob Hughes visits the Wirral Peninsula to discover that Head, his demons at bay, has made the perfect comeback with Dear Scott. But what accounts for this renewed sense of purpose? “Just keep fuckin’ going,” he tells us

YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED

The early influence of Aztec Camera’s gifted guitarist

Roxy Musıc

As Roxy reunite to mark their 50th anniversary, Bryan Ferry looks back at the group’s eight fabulous creations

KEYS TO THE HIGHWAY

After the “great reset” of last year’s juke-joint jamboree Delta Kream, THE BLACK KEYS’ Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney sound newly driven on their upcoming 11th album, Dropout Boogie. Sat around the kitchen table in Nashville’s reassuringly hard-to-find Easy Eye Studios, the world’s biggest small band reminisce to Stephen Deusner about their early lives in Akron – detentions, dead-end jobs, lost fingers – and consider how much (or how little) they’ve changed. As one collaborator notes, “They’re like a couple of kids”…

BROTHERS ON THE SIDE

The best recent albums produced by Dan Auerbach or Patrick Carney outside The Black Keys

“Wherever they sell hot dogs, those are our people”

The story behind The Black Keys’ new trash-talk classic

Party Fears Two

After a night out drinking, two friends conjure up a magical piano riff. But the time’s not right, so for three years it stays “in our back pocket”…

TIME LINE

1976: Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine meet in

REBIRTH OF THE COOL

During the early ’70s, MILES DAVIS once again pointed the way ahead. Fired up by Hendrix, Sly Stone, James Brown and the righteous spirit of the decade, Miles blew minds and found acclaim among a whole new audience. Fifty years after the pioneering On The Corner, and with eyewitness testimony from his bandmates, Tom Pinnock reveals the raw power of ‘Electric Miles’, as the Dark Magus turned on, tuned in and freaked out. “Man, he had all of the arrows under his belt…”

“IWAS HOOKED”

Jack Cooper of Modern Nature on the genius of In A Silent Way

VOODOOCHILD!

How to buy the electric Miles Davis

“Because you have technique, you don’t have to use it”

A meeting with Miles, Melody Maker, January 20, 1973

“IT’SSOOUT THERE”

Jeremy Erwin of The Heat Warps blog takes us through the finest electric Miles bootlegs

YOLA/ ALLISON RUSSELL

Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, March 3

THE WHO

Royal Albert Hall, London, March 25

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

GAVIN MARTIN

Music journalist 1961­2022

Fatoumata Diawara

The Malian singer-songwriter reveals her biggest inspirations: “I listen to this music to get back my spirit”

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