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A sense of purpose MARK STEWART | 1960–2023 • The Pop Group’s Gareth Sager salutes the “relentless energy” of his inspirational bandmate

Brian storm! • “An embodiment of all our dreams”, “a cruel fucker”, or just “a very hurt little boy”? Nick Broomfield explodes the myth of Brian Jones

The wild one • All hail Ann-Margret! Why the Harley-riding, Elvis-dating Tommy star is still rocking at 82

“Art is long, life is short” • Ryuichi Sakamoto lives on forever in his groundbreaking final work

Damien • Omen-inspired electronic funk quartet, featuring Low’s Alan Sparhawk and his son, Cyrus

Made To Love Magic • 15 tracks in the spirit of Nick Drake

AN AUDIENCE WITH… Evan Dando • The wayward Lemonheads mainman talks severed tendons, Nirvana jam sessions, “killer” new songs and his ultimate life goal: “an acoustic tour of Spain on horseback”

NEW ALBUMS • A quarter of a century on, fluid Chicago ensemble deliver a career high.

PAUL SIMON • Echoes of a stellar back catalogue in the octogenarian New Yorker’s captivating new song cycle.

A to Z • This month…

BRIGID MAE POWER • Belonging, ancestry and a fresh breeze on her fourth.

BEN CHASNY & RICK TOMLINSON • The experimental guitarists on their first collaboration

LLOYD COLE • A storied songwriter comes of age (again).

LAURA CANTRELL • First in nine years from roots-country favourite

DUDU TASSA & JONNY GREENWOOD • Love songs to the Middle East.

JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT • Former Trucker still striving to exceed his own expectations.

WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN • Something out of nothing with Gordon Chapman-Fox

BETTYE LAVETTE • Late-blooming soul singer makes the best album of her six-decade career.

Archive • Three dreamy releases from 1988/’89.

THE DREAM SYNDICATE • The whole story of the band’s epochal first lineup, remastered and with 31 unreleased tracks.

A to Z • This month…

T.REX • The half-realised glories of Marc Bolan’s space-age funk period.

DAVID AXELROD • Influential producer’s neglected sixth returns to vinyl

DOUG McKECHNIE • Unearthed music by an unlikely modular synth pioneer

“WE’RE ALL ON MUSHIES FROM NOW ON!” • Salvē, JULIAN COPE! Taking time out from creating a replica of Pompeii in his back garden, the archdrude excavates the barrows and cairns of his own ancient history in The Teardrop Explodes. Stand by for apocalyptically weird stories from the heart of post-punk – involving acid trips, knitting and an unexpected cameo from Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott. “I was always a c*nt for Amon Düül I,” Cope explains to Tom Pinnock

JULIAN CALENDAR • What else is going on in Cope’s world

Feed Your Head • Raised in a remote cabin...