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Editor’s Notes

Reformation day! • Drive-By Truckers reunite with former member Jason Isbell at Alabama’s ShoalsFest

Raising the Dead • San Francisco scenester Bill Cutler on his musical dialogue with the late Jerry Garcia

A Quick One

Brimful of Asha • Fifty years since the strange and seductive “Space Talk”, Asha Puthli is finally finding her people

Vinyl demand • This month: the best of Record Store Day’s Black Friday list

Roker Records • 164a Fulwell Rd, Roker, Sunderland SR6 9QS

Luci is a punk! • The extraordinary journey of firstwave punk producer Craig Leon, the missing link between the Ramones and Pavarotti

Madra Salach • Dublin’s latest whirlwind breakout band seek pleasure in a painful history

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AN AUDIENCE WITH… FLEA • The Chili Peppers bassist turned alt.jazz trumpeter talks supermarket beatdowns, stolen trousers and getting the nod from Tom Verlaine

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME!

STEVEN WILSON • Tennant! Partridge! Bagpuss! The modern progfather explores folk horror on one of his best works yet.

LOCAL ATTRACTIONS • The winding road to the Village

Q&A • Steven Wilson: “Prog is more acceptable now”

U2 • They’re back, and sounding vigorously like themselves.

AtoZ • This month…

ERYKAH BADU & THE ALCHEMIST • Former neo-soul queen explores a rich new Baduniverse of sound on her first album in more than a decade.

PETER GABRIEL • Confronting the present and his past on counterpart to i/o.

CHRIS GANTRY • Music City veteran continues his spirited late-career comeback

ISRAEL NASH • The Texan songwriter on tackling a classic

MICHAEL KIWANUKA • Intimate fifth album shines in the shadow of illness.

BILLY BRAGG & WILCO • More is more, with further excavations from Woody’s trunk.

ARCHIVE ALIVE • Three more transmissions from the world of Woody

Q&A • Billy Bragg: “Woody’s guitar didn’t actually kill fascists”

JOHN COLTRANE • Unheard, fiery ’Trane, unearthed on 4LP or 3CD sets.

AtoZ • This month…

BOB DYLAN • Dylan sets out to recreate the magic of 1975, and winds up bottling a different kind of lightning.

THE BE GOOD TANYAS • Samantha Parton on a folk menagerie

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

PRESENCE! • From hotel pools to packed arenas, photographer Carl Dunn’s remarkable images offer a rare, unguarded view of LED ZEPPELIN. Collected in a brilliant new book, they capture the band at their most powerful and uninhibited as they conquered America between 1969 and 1975.

SAD & BEAUTIFUL WORLD • When Mark Linkous...