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David Hutcheon A former tour manager for Peter

FOREVER YOUNG THE BEST OF 1974

PLUS! TWO UNHEARD DYLAN TRACKS!

Domino

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

Theories, rants, etc.

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REAL GONE

The Godfather …of the British Blues left us, aged

TIME MACHINE

Dark star: Endtroducing… sleeve, DJ Shadow, AKA

Who named their album sides?

Got a nagging question? Let us resolve the music-related questions that irk you.

Record High

Win! A Third Man annual Vault subscription!

Martin Turner and Wishbone Ash

It began with twin guitar glory, piss and wind. Later, fame’s fatal promise spelled the end.

Love’s Labours Found

Eighteen years after his death, a new Arthur Lee album? Players and producers explain all.

GIGS, MEMOIRS AND A BIO-PIC? WELCOME BACK, TERRY ‘SUPERLUNGS’ REID!

In the picture: Terry Reid in 1968, now

GIMME FIVE… RECORDS ABOUT TOES

Lord Kitchener Big Toe (MONOGRAM, C.1956) A lilting

TREMBLE WITH FEAR, AS PIXIES REVEAL ALBUM 10

Dawn of the undead: Pixies Black Francis, Joey

ALSO WORKING

Getty (2), Pixies pictures by Tom Dalgety

Howard Devoto

The Buzzcocks and Magazine double agent talks “new” music, Pete Shelley and Julius Caesar

Paul Heaton

Ex-Beautiful South songwriter salutes Spotlight On Al Green (Spotlight On, 1981).

AFTER THE STORM… GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS RETURN TO THE WOODLAND

ON A SUMMER evening several years ago, when

PROG! CONCEPT LPS! FABS’N’FLOYD! HELLO AGAIN THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

Missing Parsons: Alan in 1976; (below) Reds fan

DESERT BLUES MEN ETRAN DE L’AÏR BRING 100% SAHARA GUITAR

Dune buddies: Etran De L’Aïr load

MOJO PLAYLIST

Tune in! For the month’s best garage blues, future soul and deep disco.

JAMMING INSTRUMENTAL ELECTRO, BASIC BRING FUTURISM, FREAKY SHIT AND HITS TO THE BODY

IN THE late ’90s, guitarist Chris Forsyth was

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A post-punk firebrand cooled by bereavement and industry meltdown, he’s come through surgery and “ego death” with his best album in 30 years. “I still feel like I’ve got a lot left in the tank,” assures The The’s Matt Johnson.

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THE TIME IS RIGHT

Sixty years ago, the world was ready for a brand new beat, one provided by breakthrough hits by Mary Wells Martha Reeves. The Supremes and The Temptations. 1964 would prove Motown's first Golden Year, and though The Beatles and LBJ had parts to play, the label's genius back room of players, writers and producers were its true stars,

MADE Of...

SCHOOLED AT HARVARD, SUCCOURED BY THE TWO-CHORD BEATITUDES OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, GALAXIE 50O WERE THE NΕΟ- PSYCHEDELIC JEWEL OF LATE-'80S AMERICAN INDIE ROCK. BUT IF THEIR PERFECTION WAS TOO VOLATILE TO SURVIVE ENNUI AND LABEL MELTDOWN, THEIR CATALOGUE - NOW AUGMENTED BY UNRELEASED TREASURES - SHINES ON. "NOTHING LASTS FOREVER," BAND AND ASSOCIATES TELL ROY WILKINSON. "BUT NOTHING IS EVER TRULY LOST."

Trading as JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, Joan Wasser has spangled this century with her dramatic dressing-up-box pop, while lending multi-instrumental mastery to Anohni, Gorillaz and more. Tragedy has dogged her – notably the drowning of her lover Jeff Buckley – but it’s steeled her, too. “Holy shit!” she exclaims to MARTIN ASTON. “This life has not stopped being real.”

IN THE LATE 1990s – SHE CANNOT BE

KEEP IT SIMPLE,STUPID

BRANDISHING HIS FIRST ALBUM IN A DECADE, WE BRING YOU NICK LOWE: PRODUCER, SIDEMAN, AND SONGWRITER SUPREME, ON A MISSION TO STRIP ROCK’N’ROLL TO ITS ESSENCE. JUST DON’T ASK HIM TO BLOW HIS OWN TRUMPET. “MY LEGACY – SUCH AS IT IS –ISN’T SOMETHING I LOSE SLEEP OVER,”HE TELLS BOB MEHR

LOST IN MUSIC

NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST SINGERS THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN, IDOLISED BY WESTERN ROCK STARS AND MILLIONS OF FANS ACROSS THE GLOBE. IN 2024, NEWLY UNEARTHED MUSIC FROM HIS RICHEST PERIOD UNDERLINES THE QAWWALI MASTER'S ECSTATIC POWER AND THE TRAGEDY OF HIS EARLY DEATH IN 1997. "HE WAS WORKING TOO HARD," DISCOVERS DAVID HUTCHEON. "HE SAID HE ONLY LIVED FOR QAWWALI."

LAURIE ANDERSON ASKS, O SUPERMAN

She was making multimedia statements in the NY performance art milieu when lucky chance made her minimal eight-minute Gesamtkunstwerk of crashing planes, mothers and fate into a freak UK Number 2 hit in 1981. She followed up with prophetic album Big Science, diagnosing Reagan’s America and the troubled decades to come. “She’s capturing all sides, the personal, the universal and the political,” say friends and collaborators. “I’m talking to the part of you that never speaks,” she replies

ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS

Planet Waves and BOB DYLAN’s 1974 arena tour with THE BAND have often been dismissed as excessive cash-ins: overblown bouts of premature, and instantly regretted, nostalgia. But time – and a vast new box set of music from the tour – reveals instead a crucial transition, as Dylan turned away from isolation and New York, and towards new and fertile phases of his career. “It was a celebration of the past and a going beyond,” discovers GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.

MERCURY RISING!

DYLAN AND THE BAND: from emotional depths to frenzied highs. Highlights from their 30 years of "telepathic interplay"

Right to roam

Gilmour’s fifth and best solo album follows new paths through modernist soundscapes, guided by producer Charlie Andrew. By Tom Doyle. Illustration by Ernie Hunt.

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Joan As Police Woman Joshua Black Wilkins ★★★★

The Jesus Lizard

The Jesus Lizard: for those about to

The hoof is out there

Buffalo boys return with wild ninth album.

Tindersticks

Muscle memories: Tindersticks’ Stuart Staples orchestrates the

Don’t stop

West Country singer-songwriter pushes things forward on restless third album.

The good shepherd

With his band again roaring at his back, Cave turns toward his future.

Spectacular vernacular

The singer formerly known as Marley Munroe bares her soul on remarkable second album.

Steve Wynn

Bridging the gap: Steve Wynn dives into

FOLK

Astrid Williamson ★★★★ Shetland Suite INCARNATION. DL/LP Slaying

Sarah Kinsley

Breakout hit: Sarah Kinsley has finesse and sensitivity

JAZZ

Søren Skov Orbit ★★★★ Adrift FREDERIKSBERG. DL/LP Danish

Hurricane Neil

The third, epic instalment of Neil Young’s legacy embraces chaos, transcendence and distortion, 1976 to 1987.

Mark Lanegan

Blues controller: the elemental Mark Lanegan. ★★★★

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Ween © Steve Gullick ★★★★ Chocolate And Cheese

All the feels

First full release of the Mighty Real singer’s epochal March 11, 1979 concert in San Francisco.

Dig your own soul

Do you take your soul nostalgic or now? Northern or neo? Motown or Manc?

Dorothy Ashby

Strings attached: Dorothy Ashby stays sharp.

True grit

Rod and the boys get rude’n’rowdy at the Beeb over eight discs and a concert Blu-ray.

REISSUES EXTRA

Art Brut ★★★ And Yes, This Is My

Quill City

This month’s gem lost in the bracken: exquisitely ragged acoustic NZ psych-pop.

Jethro Tull

The unclassifiable ’70s sensation.

Book of love (and hate)

An entertaining unpicking of one of rock’s most tangled webs.

FILTER BOOKS

Street Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence

Plus ça change

Innovative portrait of the cerebral ambient doyen leaves you wanting more.