NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

It Hurts To Say Goodbye

Françoise Hardy, icon of French music, left us on June 11. David Hutcheon bids adieu.

SYD’S MADCAP FLOORBOARDS SOLD AT AUCTION! BUT HOW?

Out on the floor: an outtake from the

GIMME FIVE… SONGS WITH SNORING

Tom Lehrer S-N (Snore, Sniff And Sneeze) (RHINO,

INCOMPARABLE, INSCRUTABLE SPARKS DROP LP 26 HINTS

“It’s a disservice to pop music to come

Moon Unit Zappa

Frank’s eldest talks Dad, family and “spelunking in hell” for her memoir.

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

Big Star’s drummer remembers the world stopping for

NEW COSTELLO MUSICAL A FACE IN THE CROWD ARRIVES

NEARLY 70 YEARS after it was released, the

BRAZILIAN LEGEND MILTON NASCIMENTO, STILL DREAMING IN HARMONY

The boy from Brazil: Milton Nascimento in 1986

The Look Of Soul

David Corio’s The Black Chord chronicles the giants of funk, reggae, rap and more.

MEET WAND, THE L.A. PSYCHEDELICISTS HUNTING FOR THE NOTES THAT DON’T EXIST…

“We’re going into the studio with absolutely no

STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH SOUTHERN ROCK SAVIOURS THE RED CLAY STRAYS

“PEOPLE ALWAYS say it’s Elvis leading Lynyrd Skynyrd,”

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

Contort Yourself

James Chance, no wave provocateur, left us on June 18.

AUGUST 1952 …John Cage premieres 4’33”

Enjoy the silence: (clockwise from left) John Cage

Who sampled themselves?

Sing a sampled song: (clockwise from left) Björk

David Yow and The Jesus Lizard

It began by blasting it in an abandoned house. Then a perfect chemistry was lost.

Theories, rants, etc.

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JOE BOYD

Scenester-savant, peerless producer of folk-rock and more, and now author of the War And Peace of world music, a philosopher of pop guides us through seven decades of sound. “I wanted to be the perfect listener,” says Joe Boyd.

A LIFE IN PICTURES

The Boyd done good: Joe down the years.

PAPA DON'T TAKE NO MESS

In the mid-’70s, JAMES BROWN was sitting pretty, with soundtrack success and a career-best album - The Payback - refreshing his funky brand. But private tragedy and lineup chaos took its toll, and ultimately - as band members recall - his own caprice would sow the seeds of his downfall. “He was on a power-trip,” they tell STEVIE CHICK ‘I can do what I want because I am who I am.’” Photograph: DAVID REED

CASSANDRA JENKINS

New York’s CASSANDRA JENKINS grapples with the complexities of life, death, the universe and everything on quirky, melodic, meticulously artworked LPs that encompass jazz and ’90s grunge-pop. But her sophistication, she insists, is rooted in the fundamentals. “I just want to love and be loved,” she tells VICTORIA SEGAL.

The MAYOR of GROOVESVILLE

Architect of Americana, amigo to Dylan and Willie, the late DOUG SAHM was a master of soul, country, R&B, psych and more. Sixty years since his Sir Douglas Quintet took shape, friends and bandmates reflect on what made him a beloved bandleader but less popular with record labels, and cops. "It was Doug’s mouth that kept him from being as popular as Willie Nelson,” they tell MICHAEL SIMMONS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEED BACK

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN turned the ’80s Upside Down with some of the most thrilling and provocative music of the era. But what really went on behind the overgrown coiffs and sullen stares of the brothers Reid was anyone’s guess – until now. In an extract from their eye-opening upcoming memoir, they relive the watershed year of 1985 – the year of their epochal PSYCHOCANDY LP, and a whirlwind of hope, hype, dysfunction and violence

POETRY IN MOTION

ON OCTOBER 23, 1973, FOLLOWING THE DISSOLUTION of

AVERAGE WHITE BAND PICK UP THE PIECES

Taking it to the bridge: Average White Band,

DARK VICTORY

From a period of unimaginable trauma, inspirational public reflection and defiantly experimental music-making emerges NICK CAVE In tow: the incorrigible BAD SEEDS, taking a front seat on a full-colour, front-foot new album. Awaiting them, somehow: thousands more fans than ever. Has rock's savage prophet hit the big time, and if so, how the hell did that happen? "There's something about what we do that feels real and true," says Cave. "And people respond to it."

A BAND APART

The latest incarnation of the Bad Seedsmaintains a noble tradition of maverick intensity. "There's no pandering to what's popular," they insist

Love on the rocks

Inspired by Japanese manga and Italian cinema, the Irish quintet’s fourth searches for truth in a world gone wrong. Keith Cameron is smitten. Illustration by The Red Dress.

“Embracing the risk… That’s fuckin’ exhilarating.”

Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten talks to Keith Cameron.

Hang on to yourself

Sturgill Simpson reinvents himself. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, wonders John Mulvey.

Hamish Hawk

★★★★ A Firmer Hand SO RECORDINGS. CD/DL/LP Less

Trouble funk

Maverick bass player and composer in funky but fraught summit with fearless analyst of American racism.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

★★★★ Flight b741 (P) DOOM RECORDS. CD/DL/LP Album

JAZZ

Tryp Tych Tryo ★★★★ Warsaw Conjunction ON THE

Wise guys

Chicago MC and Bronx beat-master team up for inspired mature rap LP. By Stevie Chick.

Quivers

Going deep: Quivers evolve enticingly on their third

Orquesta Akokán

★★★★ Caracoles DAPTONE. CD/DL/LP Third outing for the

ELECTRONIC

Richard Sen ★★★★ India Man DO YOURSELF. CD/DL/LP

EXTENDED PLAY

Wilco Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP GIVEN HIS

Kings of pain

Vastly expanded reissue of the group’s highly fractious and hugely successful final album

“We are not kindly individuals.”

Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers speak to Tom Doyle.

FILTER REISSUES

Paul Weller ★★★★ Fly On The Wall (B

From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music

Black country, new/old roads: From Where I Stand

Three in the key

High-water mark of the Beasties’ imperial phase, with bonus album of alternate mixes and a field recording of the band playing basketball in the studio.

Roots Rock Rebels

Revolution rock: Steel Pulse’s David Hinds (left) and

Definitely Maybe: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Route one: Oasis ready for the off, 1994.

Don’t forget the motor city

Revisiting the album output of Detroit’s great singles label.

I Can Hear Musik

From rock’s peat bog of obscurity, Kosmische electronics and live drums take flight.

Man

Cult Welsh prog-psych group’s amorphous and unruly back catalogue, navigated by Jim Wirth.

HOW TO BUY

1 Man Live At The Padget Rooms, Penarth

Harmony in his head

The complete Buzzcocks, from their windmill-riffing guitarist.

FILTER BOOKS

Under A Rock ★★★★ Chris Stein CORSAIR. £25

The ballad of Damon

An unexpectedly emotional account of their 2023 renaissance sees Blur go hand in hand through their midlife.