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The alt country stalwarts talk Townes Van Zandt, The Trinity Session, family politics and the art of a great cover version

Forty-five years on from Marquee Moon, collaborators and bandmates separate the facts and frictions of an elusive artist

Donkeys, didgeridoos and Celtic ballads: how the creative outlier took it as far as she could on her 1982 album, The Dreaming

An eerie coming-of-age allegory so intense that it caused the post-rock pioneers to split: “We had crises of belief systems or something…”

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

Kurt Vile, Fontaines DC, Aldous Harding, Mdou Moctar, The Weather Station and The Afghan Whigs

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 We pay tribute to a legend, while the singer herself, in an unpublished archive interview, holds forth on the Fabs, the Boss and more

Stars Kate Bush, Nick Drake, Fontaines D.C., a 15-track new folk CD and more