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Motown bunk! • A new photobook documents the young Manics’ journey from bedroom to Top 10

Soundtrack of his life • John Murry and Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins on writing the music for a new film about… John Murry!

“It’s just so powerful” • Dawn Landes on bringing The Liberated Woman’s Songbook to life, with a little help from Peggy Seeger

A Quick One

Reptile be back • Incendiary Austin noise-punks The Jesus Lizard return with their first album of the 21st century

MJ Lenderman • Wednesday guitarist joins a rich tradition of storytelling Southern rock

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

On The Highway • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

STEVE DIGGLE • The Buzzcocks bosun talks acid, existentialism, accidental genius and missing Pete Shelley

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ALAN SPARHAWK • Deep emotions and trap beats mark the Low cofounder’s intimate solo debut.

NOT SO LOW • Some of Sparhawk’s extracurricular activities

Q&A • Alan Sparhawk has had his mind “cracked open”…

NICK LOWE • Intermittent studio forays collated for a vibrant ‘new’ album.

Q&A • Nick Lowe: “We released the demos before the album”

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LAURIE ANDERSON • New York avant-garde doyenne’s flight of fancy.

Q&A • Laurie Anderson: “How do you know what’s in someone’s head?”

ENUMCLAW • Aramis Johnson: “I can’t pay rent off this band”

NILÜFER YANYA • Londoner’s self-exploratory third.

Q&A • Nilüfer Yanya: “We were the only judges at the end of the day”

SHOVELS & ROPE • Charleston duo strip back, plug in and embrace their core aesthetic

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

ANDREW TUTTLE / MICHAEL CHAPMAN • A magical posthumous team-up.

Q&A • Andrew Tuttle and Andru Chapman: “I thought, yes…”

KRONONAUT • Leo Abrahams: “We’re travelling through time”

EL KHAT • Third album of gloriously wonky DIY noise-rock poetry from globe-trotting Yemeni-Jewish trio.

Q&A • El Khat’s Eyal El Wahab: “My identity should not matter”

MARK LANEGAN BAND • Forty-track anniversary boxset expands on the original album’s story.

LANDMARK RELEASES • Three more pivotal records from Lanegan’s mighty discography

Q&A • Troy Van Leeuwen & Brian Klein (executive producer of Bubblegum XX, and Lanegan’s former manager)

TEN YEARS AFTER • A career-defining show at an era-defining event.

Q&A • Leo Lyons, bassist: “There was a downpour like I’d never seen”

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STUART MOXHAM • Lost sketches of a Young Marble Giant

DOROTHY CARTER • The folk mystic’s finest hour revisited.

Q&A • Eric Demby, reissue producer...