We assemble friends, peers and acolytes to celebrate the 50th birthday of Pink Moon

From Screaming Trees to Queens Of The Stone Age and beyond

What lies behind the virtuoso visionary's lifelong quest for transcendence? “I wanted to make music that takes you into the stratosphere,” he tells us

One of the most distinctive voices in pop music fell silent last month - a combination of street toughness and tenderness, a trademark vibrato and raw, unschooled energy. We pay tribute to a legend, while the singer herself, in an unpublished archive interview, holds forth on the Fabs, the Boss and more

Locked down in New Orleans during the pandemic, restless creative spirit Alynda Segarra looks to nature and psychedelic exploration

The Welsh artist discusses the making of her ambitious new album, Pompeii

A new exhibition in June will belatedly mark Lou Reed’s 80th birthday. But what can we expect from a man who rarely wanted to discuss his past? We dig through the boxes of bar tabs, bootleg albums and… swords!

Nearly four decades on from The Smiths’ debut single, Johnny Marr has made the most ambitious album of his career. He tells us more about Fever Dreams Pts 1–4

Tapestry made her a global superstar and broke records around the world – but how do you top an album that defined a generation?

Slow and low: drone titans lift their cowls to look back on two decades of radical reverberations