“I didn’t know I was unusual”

Glam trailblazer Suzi Quatro on leather jumpsuits, Alice Cooper and Taylor Swift

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Glasgow

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JENNIFER CASTLE

Camelot PARADISE OF BACHELORS

THE ROAD TO CAMELOT

The pick of Jennifer Castle’s albums to date

Q & A

Jennifer Castle: “I put everything on this record”

MOUNT EERIE

Night Palace PW ELVERUM & SUN

Q&A

Phil Elverum “It’s a big chunk of music”

A to Z

This month…

ROGÊ

Curyman II DIAMOND WEST

BANANAGUN

Nick Van Bakel on a “pure, natural” sound

ANDREW GABBARD

Ramble & Rave On!

UNDERWORLD

Strawberry Hotel SMITH HYDE PRODUCTIONS

WARMDUSCHER

Too Cold To Hold STRAP ORIGINALS

BRYAN FERRY

Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973–2023

THE LIFE OF BRYAN

Three gems from Retrospective

Q&A

Bryan Ferry: “It was a fun process”

TALKING HEADS

Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition)

A to Z

This month…

APHRODITE’S CHILD

666 – The Apocalypse Of St John: 50th Anniversary Boxset UNIVERSAL

REVELATIONS

GRAHAM NASH

REDISCOVERED

IDAHO

TINA TURNER

Back in print for the first time in two decades, Turner’s first four solo albums reveal her depth and growth.

THE SPECIALIST

Vodohrai: lush jazz-funk from behind the Iron Curtain

REVELATIONS

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS

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“I NEED A CAMERA TO MY EYE…”

How to take better photos

NEXT SPLASH

Pixie, Breeder… solo artist! KIM DEAL steps out of her pod to explain how iguanas, ukuleles, the Florida Keys, Hank Williams and “a crotch-led, old-school Playboy After Dark feel” have shaped her gigantic new album – and how she’s borne poignant losses along the way, including her parents and Steve Albini. “I want to do the songs justice,” she tells Tom Pinnock

A GOOD DEAL

How to buy Kim and The Breeders

THE LIGHT POURS OUT

Post-punk pioneers turned new wave outliers, MAGAZINE never quite fulfilled their commercial potential. As their back catalogue is reissued, frontman HOWARD DEVOTO – aka “the most important man alive” – along with former bandmates and acolytes reflect on their brilliant but doomed trajectory. “Some sort of sky might’ve been the limit,” Devoto reflects to Dave Simpson. “But how could I possibly know unless I tried?”

MODEL WORKERS

A buyer’s guide to Magazine

Danny Kortchmar

The sideman’s sideman looks back on some of the albums he produced, played on and helped write

LIFE IN A GLASSHOUSE

When he’s not been playing bass, COLIN GREENWOOD has spent the last two decades photographing RADIOHEAD. Here, he guides us through some highlights from an upcoming book of his shots, candidly capturing the band as they travel around the world, from a bullet train in Japan to a country house in Wiltshire and backstage at Glastonbury. “To think I always wanted to be in Fleetwood Mac,” he tells Tom Pinnock…

Show Some Emotion

As a new album attests, JOAN ARMATRADING has been writing brilliant songs for over 50 years. Refusing to play the celebrity game, she has continued to work to her own tempo, in the process quietly creating an enduring body of work that explores themes of love, solitude and connection. “It’s just writing music,” she tells Nigel Williamson. “That’s what I do.”

TO THE LIMIT…

The Top 10 Joan Armatrading albums

JOAN ARMATRADING: SINGER, SONGWRITER… AND GUITAR VIRTUOSO

WHEN we think of Joan Armatrading, it’s the

“Supplement: 66”

Like a good chef, Weller isn’t letting any offcuts from his 66 album go to waste. They’re just “too good not to use”

READY TO TESTIEY

The MC5’s incendiary debut Kick Out The Jams, recorded live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom in October 1968, remains the definitive statement of rock’n’roll as righteous rebellion. In this extract from a new posthumous oral history of the legendary band – published just as they are inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame – the MC5 and their allies explain how the album came about and why its crazed sermonising is still winning new converts. “It became something more powerful than any of us…”

“RIGHTEOUS HAIR, MAN”

MC5 singer Rob Tyner on how “Jimi Hendrix saved my ass”

BACK TO COMM

Producer BOB EZRIN and vocalist BRAD BROOKS on the now-posthumous MC5 album Heavy Lifting

KEEPING THE FAITH

PLUS! ALAN SPARHAWK, THURSTON MOORE, J MASCIS and more on their favourite Cure albums!

IN BETWEEN DAYS

A timeline of ROBERT SMITH and THE CURE’s activities since releasing their last studio album, 4:13 Dream

“IT’S FUN TO SEE THEM STILL YOUNG”

ALAN SPARHAWK chooses their 1979 debut, THREE IMAGINARY BOYS

“GLOOMY, ATMOSPHERIC… BEAUTIFUL”

On 1980’s SEVENTEEN SECONDS, The Cure find their true voice, says DEAN WAREHAM

“BRITTLE BUT GLACIAL”

Into the gloom… Mogwai’s STUART BRAITHWAITE hymns The Cure’s “resigned” third, 1981’s FAITH

“IT HAS A CERTAIN LONGING”

How J MASCIS was comforted by 1982’s PORNOGRAPHY

“THEY TOOK RISKS”

Slowdive’s RACHEL GOSWELL on the “wild mix” of 1987’s KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME

“SENSITIVE AND GENUINE”

THURSTON MOORE salutes 1989’s “significant” DISINTEGRATION

“POST-PUNK STRANGENESS”

CHVRCHES singer and Cure collaborator LAUREN MAYBERRY celebrates 2000’s BLOODFLOWERS

SONGS OF A LOST WORLD

FICTION/POLYDOR

JACK WHITE

Islington Assembly Hall, London, September 13

RYLEY WALKER + JACK COOPER

Cafe Oto, London, September 20

SCREEN

Screwball murderess rivalry in 1930s Paris; a brisk, linear Brian Epstein biopic; sinister secrets in an Irish convent; more…

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THE FRONT ROOM RELEASED OCTOBER 25 In time

ROAD DIARY: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND

DISNEY + 8/10

BOOKS

IT is appropriate that a French intellectual should

Pump up the volume

The pick of the latest amps

Not Fade Away

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Crossword

One LP copy of Jennifer Castle’s Camelot

Phil Manzanera

For your pleasure, the Roxy Music guitarist reveals his most impactful albums: “It was too exciting for words”

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“It’s all gone/left alone with nothing/the end of every song”

Rising sons

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Culture club

The Haçienda may have bankrupted Factory Records, but its cultural imprint remains huge. “It’s amazing how far the tentacles have gone,” marvels Peter Hook

Bunch of Arts

On his latest album, Art Garfunkel teams up with a new singing partner – his son, Art Garfunkel Jr

One True Pairing

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