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Chile's hippy revolution uncovered

An all-star panel – including Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Terry Chimes – vote for the greatest songs Strummer and co ever recorded

Definitive, outtake-fattened career retrospective has been a long time coming

The Led Zep guitarist on their "great body of work" and Robert Plant's "primeval wail"

As chosen by his Bad Seeds and Grinderman bandmates, famous fans and Cave himself…

From Gish and Mellon Collie to Oceania, Billy Corgan reveals all about his torturous journey to stardom

First off, thanks for all your kind and indulgent comments about my 154 best albums of 2014 blog; I'm genuinely grateful and touched by the feedback.

To Cargo, earlier this week, for what I think might have been one of my favourite gigs of the year. I wrote about Xylouris White and their "Goats" album a few weeks ago, but even that excellent record was scant preparation for Jim White and George Xylouris' incandescent live show.

Mournful, loner blues-folktronica from America's deepest growl...

Very taken with Africa Express' version of "In C", by Terry Riley, this week. I have a few takes on the piece (50 years old this month, incidentally), the latest being one by Portishead's Adrian Utley from a couple of years back, though I still probably default to what I think is the original recording from '68.