Stranger than fiction

Welcome back, Split Enz ! While Tim Finn bats away reunion rumours, a new boxset celebrates New Zealand’s acclaimed new wavers

“I’m doing it for you”

Outspoken soul trailblazer Millie Jackson on Richard Pryor, raising hell and her provocative stage antics

Magic ephemera

Theatre director Rob Roth is also one of the world’s foremost collectors of classic rock memorabilia. He talks us through some of his favourite items

Nashville treasure

Celebrating 100 years of country music institution the Grand Ole Opry

A Quick One

Get yourself together now and give me something

Uncut Playlist

On the stereo this month

Greazy Alice

WE’RE NEW HERE

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EDWYN COLLINS

INSTANT KARMA

ROBERT PLANT WITH SUZI DIAN

Saving Grace NONESUCH

NEW SHOOTS

Ranging far and wide on the road to Saving Grace

Q & A

Robert Plant: “It makes me feel really good to sing alongside another voice”

JEFF TWEEDY

Twilight Override DBPM

A to Z

This month…

TORTOISE

Touch INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM

EMMA POLLOCK

Begging The Night To Take Hold

AMANDA SHIRES

Nobody’s Girl ATO

MULATU ASTATKE

Mulatu Plays Mulatu STRUT

NEKO CASE

Neon Grey Midnight Green ANTI-

GENESIS

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (reissue, 1974) RHINO

CHOP SHOP

The best Lamb-adjacent cuts

Q & A

Steve Hackett : “Being in Genesis was like joining the upper ranks of the diplomatic corps…”

BRIGITTE FONTAINE

Brigitte Fontaine Est… Folle (reissue, 1968) WEWANTSOUNDS

A to Z

This month…

JOHN & YOKO/PLASTIC ONO BAND

Power To The People UNIVERSAL

INFROM THE STORM

With their new album Bleeds refining leader Karly Hartzman’s raw, astute songs about Southern life, WEDNESDAY ’ s path to indie-Americana stardom looks clear. But this triumphant next chapter has been buffeted by behind-the-scenes dramas – not least the breakout solo success of guitarist MJ Lenderman. “There’s been a lot of shakeups this year,” hears Brian Howe

Bitchin Bajas

Chicago’s finest cosmic minimalist synth-jazz trio walk us through their expansive oeuvre

“You get scarred, you get hurt, you fall, you rise and you develop who you are”

Has anyone enjoyed as many lives as YUSUF CAT STEVENS ? From ’60s pop star to ’70s singer-songwriter, religious convert and now sagacious elder statesman. But what connects all these different threads of his life? “People who don’t change are stuck,” Nick Hasted finds out

CAT’S WHISKERS

A Buyer’s Guide to Cat Stevens/Yusuf

“WE WERE SOULMATES”

When Cat met Jimi

Natural Born Bugie”

Aiming to shrug off a pop image, Steve Marriott shares vocals on his new band’s bluesy first 45: “He really wanted a democratic situation”

Heaven Born AND EVER BRIGHT

The striking, singular music of CARDIACS was quietened in 2020 with the untimely death of their founder, TIM SMITH . As a posthumous album reminds us of the group’s eccentric, energetic experiments with British psych-rock, friends and collaborators reflect on the visionary spirit of their fallen leader. “Tim was like a cult leader, he was incredibly magnetic,” hears Jon Dale

BUYER’S GUIDE TO CARDIACS

A LITTLE MAN AND A HOUSE AND THE

NYMPHS, SHRUBBIES & PUPPIES

A brief guide to the many Cardiacs side-projects

SING TO TIM

The 2024 shows

HEAVY PETAL

The album that TOM PETTY considered to be his career peak arrived during the most traumatic period of his life – as self-doubt, a broken marriage and record company wrangles threatened to engulf him. As a sumptuous new book illuminates Petty’s creative processes, former bandmates and collaborators hail his creative rebirth with Wildflowers. “It’s such a personal record,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Brutal at times, but kind, deliberate and honest.”

DAVE GROHL: THE LOST HEARTBREAKER?

That was a call: Petty with Dave Grohl

LOST ALBUMS, LIVE SETS, HOME MOVIES…

Adria Petty on her father’s voluminous archive

RAZZMATAZZ

Pulp’s 40 Greatest Songs

END OF THE ROAD

Larmer Tree Gardens August 28-31

AC/DC

Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, August 21

SCREEN

A boy reaches breaking point at reform school; teenage road trippers head to Syria; Tap return for one last gig; and more…

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

STEV E Directed by Tim Mielants Starring

ALSO OUT...

Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another

IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY FESTIVALS

9/10

BOOKS

Princess Julia and Steve Strange at the Blitz

Keynote speakers

Active and passive systems

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month

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Crossword

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Cate Le Bon

The Welsh wonder picks the records that brighten her corners: “It’s an alchemy that you can’t really understand”

Editorial

“The world is going on outside, the night

TIME LINE

January 1, 1969 Having left the Small Faces

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