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Ironic man: Randy Newman appears on The Old

Wireless search

The pick of the latest bluetooth speakers BOSE

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THIS MONTH’S REVELATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF WITH... The Silverlites | John Peel | Jesse Malin | Fievel Is Glauque

Shiny happy people

Meet The Silverlites, a new folk-rock supergroup featuring members of REM, The Black Crowes and Screaming Trees

A Quick One

Find out if Blackstar beats Ghosteen and how

Keep on burning

Jesse Malin plots his return to the stage after suffering a spinal stroke last year: “It’s about persevering and making things happen… ”

Vinyl testament

As part of Eilon Paz’s engrossing new book of enviable vinyl hoards, Tom Ravenscroft conducts a tour of his late father John Peel’s record collection

Fievel Is Glauque

WE’RE NEW HERE

Uncut Playlist

On the stereo this month...

AN AUDIENCE WITH... JOE BOYD

The folk-rock super-producer talks Syd, Sandy, 6am calls from Kubrick and ping-pong with John Cale

WHITE DENIM

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

GOING BLANC AGAIN

Key stops on White Denim’s creative journey

Q&A

James Petralli: “Make it different, make it true”

FATHER JOHN MISTY

Mahashmashana BELLA UNION/SUB POP

A to Z

This month… P27 PP ARNOLD P28 CHIKISS P30

SHOVEL DANCE COLLECTIVE

The Shovel Dance AMERICAN DREAMS

BALDRUIN

Johannes Schebler on blending sounds ancient and modern

SILKROAD ENSEMBLE WITH RHIANNON GIDDENS

Dazzling multi-handed study of a crucial part in US history

LILI HOLLAND-FRICKE & SEAN ROGAN

On classical training, cellos and Wes Anderson

JEFF PARKER & ETA IVTET

The Way Out Of Easy INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM/NONESUCH

PRIMAL SCREAM

“We had to reinvent ourselves”

MICHAEL KIWANUKA

Small Changes POLYDOR

TREES SPEAK

Damian and Daniel Diaz: “The desert seeps into our sound”

BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND

REISSUES | COMPS | BOXSETS | LOST RECORDINGS

FOUND HOUND SOUNDS

Three hidden gems unearthed in the Bonzos box

Q&A

Legs Larry Smith: “It’s the best way to educate people”

GEORGE HARRISON

Living In The Material World: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe DARK HORSE/BMG

AtoZ

This month… P44 RAY CHARLES P44 COLDPLAY P45

RAY CHARLES

Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music Vol 1/Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music Vol 2 TANGERINE

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

The BBC Sessions UMR

ROBBIE BASHO

Snow Beneath The Belly Of A White Swan: The Lost Live Recordings TOMPKINS SQUARE

FOR THE GOOD TIMES

Singer, film star, soldier, academic and activist, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, who died last month, could seemingly turn his hand to anything – not least songwriting, where he helped take country music in bold new directions. But as Alastair McKay discovers, success sat awkwardly with his rebel spirit. “Mark Twain was special, Bob Dylan’s special, all The Beatles are special. Kris fits in with that lot, you know?”

EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

A new theatre piece, a tour, a landmark birthday, the return of the Coward Brothers… there’s no stopping ELVIS COSTELLO. Top of the pile, though, is an enhanced reissue of his much-loved King Of America album, which finds new shoots in the old routes that have taken him around America’s greatest music cities for the last 40 years. “I’m grateful for the trip I’ve been on,” he tells Michael Bonner

HIS CROWN JEWELS

Costello on the King Of America & Other Realms boxset

“WE WROTE MOST OF JOHNNY CASHʼS MATERIAL!”

Henry Coward – aka T BONE BURNETT – on brother Howard and 40 years of friendship

BEST NEW ALBUMS

80-51 80 LEYLA McCALLA Sun Without The Heat

“I demand a new record!”

Geoff Barrow sees a bright future for Beak>, despite his imminent departure. Plus: killer dogs and “sourdough pleasantries”

“Everything I dreamed about has become a reality”

English Teacher’s Lily Fontaine on winning the Mercury, LCD at Glasto and taking the fight to Westminster

“I let myself go crazy on coffee”

WithTigers Bloodin her veins, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield looks back over a year of cortados, beaches and dingy rock clubs

CAVE OF WONDERS

After a period of carnage and contemplation, NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS’ Wild God – Uncut’s album of 2024 – found the legendary band in rip-roaring form, powered by their leader’s emotional candour and renewed lust for life. Back in Berlin, a location that looms large in Bad Seeds lore, Cave and cohorts consider their ongoing transformation: “It’s really about the present moment…”

“A BIT TERRIFYING”

The Bad Seeds’ songwriting process revealed

DEITIES ON EARTH

Just who is the Wild God?

CAVE PAINTINGS

The road to Wild God

REISSUES| LIVE| COMPILATIONS

Boxed in: John Lennon © YOKO ONO LENNON;

SPIRITUAL ETERNAL

Since her death in 2007, the reputation of spiritual jazz pioneer ALICE COLTRANE has continued to grow to the point where it now matches that of her esteemed husband John. In what has been designated The Year Of Alice, Ana Gavrilovska speaks to those who worked, lived and prayed alongside the musician and teacher later known as Swami Turiyasangitananda, to discover what drove her to create such transcendent music: “There was an energy around her, a sacredness”

WORLD GALAXIES

A buyer’s guide to Alice Coltrane

“I SAW A WOMAN DO EVERYTHING”

Michelle Coltrane on growing up with Alice

Michael Head

The rocky road from ‘the Paleys’ to Shack to Strands to the New Elastic Band and back

BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT

CASSANDRA JENKINS’ latest record My Light, My Destroyer is one of the breakthrough albums of this year: a rich, emotional blend of warmth and melancholy set against cosmic awe. In Portland, Oregon, she explains how she overcame self-doubt and grief to discover truths about herself and her songwriting. “I’m just a delicate flower,” she tells Robert Ham. “So it’s pretty funny to throw a delicate flower into a tornado.”

BUYER’S GUIDE

EP SELF-RELEASED, 2013 Emerging from a fertile

HIRED GUN

Cassandra Jenkins on her work as a sideperson for Purple Mountains, Craig Finn, Eleanor Friedberger and more

FILMS OF THE YEAR

20 MY FAVOURITE CAKE Dir: Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash

MUSIC DOCS OF THE YEAR

10 THE STORY OF MICRODISNEY: THE CLOCK

“I played the long game”

Bruce Springsteen on the Road Diary doc and the art ofkeeping a band together: “It’s very challenging, butthe film shows the rewards”

BOOKS OF THE YEAR

10 NEVER UNDERSTOOD: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

Julia Holter

LA’s musical magic realist reveals her loud city songs: “There’s sorrow and ecstasy and all the feelings”

DAVID GILMOUR

Royal Albert Hall, London, October 9

JONI MITCHELL

Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, October 19

SCREEN

A dreamlike Indian drama; AI and zombies run amok; a Nolan-esque metaphysical thriller; and more…

ALSO OUT...

Paul Mescal in Gladiator II GLADIATOR II RELEASED

IN RESTLESS DREAMS: THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON

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Not Fade Away

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