Lipstick traces

A “moment of fun discovery” for the young Amy Winehouse , as captured by photographer Charles Moriarty

Kurt and cardie

The holy relics of Nirvana ’s MTV Unplugged performance are coming to London

A Quick One

Peek-a-boo! The latest Ultimate Music Guide brings you

“I went into a kind of trance”

Happy 90th birthday, Terry Riley ! Ahead of a tribute show at the Barbican, Pete Townshend hails the minimalist maestro’s enduring influence

Pin Ups

Music photographer Lawrence Watson pulls some rare and unseen shots from his archive, in aid of Rethink Mental Illness

Strange life

Spiral Stairs and director Alex Ross Perry unpack the initially confusing but ultimately poignant new Pavement film

Index For Working Musik

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DUOPHONIC UHF DISKS/WARP

PETE SHELLEY

Homosapien/XL-1(reissues, 1981, 1983)

SUFJAN STEVENS

Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

OLD TIME FEELING

The antique spirit of SG GOODMAN ’s songs stays true to her Kentuckian roots, but she finds substance in modern, smalltown minutiae. In between tales of gardening with octogenarians, driving trucks as a 12-year-old and cutting one’s hair ‘by the signs’, she explains why her new album is inspired by ancient pagan practices of living by the phases of the moon. “This belief is meant to have action behind it,” she tells an intrigued Stephen Deusner over lunch at Rudy’s On The Square, “and not just feelings.”

BEYOND SAVAGE

Essential SG Goodman

“BIG POWER, BIG VULNERABILITY”

WILL OLDHAM – who duets on Planting By The Signs – on recording with SG

HAPPY TALK

The journey from “man in a cabin, sad bastard” to Grammy awards, stadium tours and the veneration of his peers has brought Justin Vernon success as BON IVER – but it came at a price. Yet a new album finds him in uncharacteristically positive and upbeat mood. What changed? “I started to feel like I don’t want to play this character any more,” discovers Laura Barton. “This is the new era for Bon Iver.”

AND JUSTIN FOR ALL

Side projects and collabs

Dire Straits

From a grotty flat in Deptford to ubiquity in the CD era: how these brothers in arms conquered the world

MAGICAL THINKING

Illuminated by the psychedelic Merseybeat of brothers JOHN and MICHAEL HEAD , SHACK were the cult band’s cult band before addiction, misfortune and disappointment waylaid them. In the time since, their music – and legend – has grown in stature. As the band ready for their first tour in over 15 years, we hear how sobriety, family and chemistry have played a part in their unexpected reunion. “It’s natural,” they tell Tom Pinnock. “It’s beautiful.”

“Purple Rain”

A live recording at a local benefit show results in the signature tune from a career-defining album and movie

BEYOND SUNSET

Sixty years on since THE DOORS formed in Los Angeles, John Densmore and Robby Krieger celebrate 10 of their greatest songs – freeway-haunting jams and psychedelic epics, raunchy blues, pop departures and more that remind them of good times and bad. “We were proud to break that three-minute barrier,” they tell Peter Watts

MAPS & LEGENDS

Forty years ago, R.E.M. travelled to London to make their third album, Fables Of The Reconstruction . A cryptic record, rooted in the mythology, history and geography of the rural American South, it arrived in difficult circumstances – yet it played a critical role in the band’s transformation from lively and mysterious post-punk outfit to concerned and influential rock band. In candid and revelatory interviews, MICHAEL STIPE , PETER BUCK and MIKE MILLS shine new light on their early years. “By the time we got to Fables , we were all crazy, to one degree or another,” hears Michael Bonner

SACRED MUSIC

MICHAEL SHANNON and JASON NARDUCY reveal all about their Fables… tour. “It’s not a cover band,” insists superfan Michael Stipe. “It’s much greater than that!”

PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER: A CELEBRATION OF PATTI SMITH

Carnegie Hall, New York, March 26

JOHN CALE

Royal Festival Hall, London, March 21

SCREEN

Nic Cage loses it (again) down under; an Icelandic composer’s elegy for lost love; reunited brothers bond over brass; more…

LEAD BELLY: THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK & ROLL WIENERWORLD

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BOOKS

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Tom Waits’ go-to guitarist on his journey through blues, punk, jazz and beyond: “The musicians are caught up in a ritual”

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