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“The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face”

National treasure

A new deluxe photobook captures the reciprocal warmth of America’s most beloved band

What goes around…

The miraculous tale of Manc indie never-weres Magic Roundabout, resurrected by Third Man after 34 years

“You really feel it heavy with her”

As Karen Dalton’s music continues to enthrall, a new film pieces together the fragments of the singer’s difficult life

Get Carter

Polly Paulusma’s new album is inspired by Angela Carter’s early forays into folksong

A QUICK ONE

Likea hurricane! The new Ultimate Music Guide is

Damon Locks – Black Monument Ensemble

Former Chicago punk melding spiritual jazz with gospel and electronica to address the times

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month…

It’s made me really tearful, actually

AN AUDIENCE WITH JASON PIERCE

PAUL WELLER

Fat Pop (Volume 1) POLYDOR

MORE MODERN CLASSICS

HOW TO BUY

ST VINCENT Daddy’s Home LOMA VISTA 8/10

Annie Clark makes herself known.

AtoZ

This month…

MDOU MOCTAR

Afrique Victime  MATADOR   9/10

MATT BERRY

REVELATIONS

JOHN HIATT WITH THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND

Leftover Feelings  NEW WEST  8/10

TONY JOE WHITE

Smoke From The Chimney

ICEAGE

Elias Bender Rønnenfelt on his band’s bold moves and new helpmates

HOLLY MACVE

The singer-songwriter broadens her sound

SONS OF KEMET

Black To The Future  IMPULSE!  8/10

GRUFF RHYS

Baby grands and mountain madness

DOROTHEA PAAS

Anything Can’t Happen  TELEPHONE EXPLOSION  8/10

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG

Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition RHINO

SINGLE LIFE

Neil made After The Gold Rush, but here’s how the other three followed up Déjà Vu…

MY BLOODY VALENTINE

Isn’t Anything/ Loveless/ mb v/EPs ’88–’91  (reissues, 1988, 1991, 2013, 2012)  DOMINO  10/10, 10/10, 9/10, 8/10

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This month…

SUN RA

Lanquidity  (reissue, 1978) STRUT  8/10

CHIC CLIQUE

The best of Nile Rodgers and Bernie Edwards’ extracurricular activities

JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection CAPITOL/UMC  10/10

ROGÉR FAKHR

Fine Anyway HABIBIFUNK  8/10 

CATH & PHIL TYLER

Some Heavy Hand FERRICMORDANT  8/10

“I managed not to die!”

After being hospitalised with Covid-19, MARIANNE FAITHFULL went on to finish She Walks In Beauty – the latest instalment in her remarkable career as rock’s most regal survivor. She tells Laura Barton about recovery, Romantic poetry and how, perhaps, the ’60s weren’t all they were cracked up to be. “I really wasn’t a good muse…”

Songs From The Darkest Hour

From Topanga Canyon to Costa Rica via Sheffield and Gairloch, JAMES have weathered the pandemic and personal loss to record an urgent new album, All The Colours Of You. But nearly 40 years after their beginnings in Manchester, what makes James… James? Graeme Thomson finds Tim Booth and his cohorts “still yearning for answers”

DYLAN AT 80

On May 24, BOB DYLAN turns 80. To celebrate his birthday, we’ve asked friends, collaborators and admirers – including PAUL McCARTNEY, ROBBIE ROBERTSON, JACKSON BROWNE, ROGER McGUINN, JEFF TWEEDY, VAN MORRISON, GRAHAM NASH, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, ELTON JOHN, PEGGY SEEGER, ROGER DALTREY and RICHARD THOMPSON – to share their most memorable Dylan encounter with us

Introducing… DYLAN ...REVISITED

Your track-bytrack guide to our exclusive free CD

Field Music

The Brew is brothers reflect on 16 years of pragmatic pop classicism

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EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT RECREATION (LIVE AT ALEXANDRA PALACE)  PICCADILLY RECORDS  8/10 

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FULL MOON FEVER

After a hiatus of 16 years, old friends WILL OLDHAM and MATT SWEENEY have finally made a new collaborative album, Superwolves. While silver bullets are not necessary, the pair explain to Tom Pinnock why they’re “comfortable with the apocalypse”, the impact of David Berman’s death on their recording sessions, and the pernicious influence of The Wizard Of Oz

HALLELUHWAH!

As a new series of live albums highlights CAN’s wild, incantatory performances, co-founder Irmin Schmidt and other eyewitnesses help Rob Young chart their progress from the Croydon Greyhound to balmy nights in Arles and Stuttgart’s Gustav-Siegle-Haus – via sought-after bootlegs, freak-noise meltdowns and the right kind of “psychic environment”…

FÜNF ALIVE!

Five essential krautrock live albums

UPPER WEST SIDE STORIES

Twenty years ago, NME travelled to New York to meet THE STROKES just as they were putting the finishing touches to their debut album, Is This It. The result, their first cover story, is a definitive snapshot of the band in their fist-fighting, barhopping, pandemoniuminducing prime. “It’s a short life, man,” Julian Casablancas tells James Oldham. “You’ve got to pack it in”

STROKE OF GENIUS

The Strokes’  Is This It

Food For Thought by UB40

The Brum band’s first single cloaked tough, conscience-pricking lyrics in lilting pop-reggae: “It should have been the anthem for Live Aid…”

WAXAHATCHEE

Kansas City, March 27

OSEES

Levitation Sessions II, Los Angeles, April 10

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

MY ROCK’N’ROLL FRIEND TRACEY THORN CANONGATE, £17 8/10

FILMS

Indie black comedy, Creation’s hectic track record, female music pioneers, Greek drama and literary legends

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Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

Earl Slick

The long-serving Bowie lieutenant on the records that shaped his guitar style: “I’ve always been discovering and rediscovering blues”