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Fire Of Love: A Jeffrey Lee Pierce Retrospective

With the release of Axels And Sockets, the third instalment of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, next week, Helen Donlon looks back over the troubled but brilliant career of the Gun Club founder. Photographs courtesy of Edward Colver

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Prince: Revolutionary Transmissions From Beyond The Greatest Hits

While there's nothing wrong with a Prince hits anthology or two, this doesn't even begin to tell the story. Petra Davis, Joe Stannard, Al Denney, Wyndham Wallace, David Moats and John Tatlock choose their favourite non-single tracks... (republished 21st April 2016 - RIP Prince)

A Tower Of Songs: Martha Wainwright’s Favourite Albums

In a revealing Baker's Dozen interview Martha Wainwright discusses family, love, parenthood and music with Elizabeth Aubrey. Portrait by Carl Lessard

Moving On: Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Tristan Bath puts on Tom Waits' watershed album from 1983 and raises a Mickey's Big Mouth to the singer... and his wife, Kathleen Brennan

The More Things Change: Self-Esteem’s Prioritise Pleasure Reviewed

Jude Rogers finds something radical in Self-Esteem's stadium sized rage and despair, capturing some of the mood of 2021

The Greatness Beyond: How Chaos Rising Are Breaking Metal’s Boundaries

Formed in 2019, the "international all-female metal collective" Chaos Rising have been slowly building up an impressive catalogue of unique collaborative works. Keith Kahn-Harris meets some of the people behind the project and argues that the model it provides has the potential to overturn some of metal’s most enduring institutions

Dewey Decibel Sound System: Rum Music With Russell Cuzner

Russell Cuzner once again allows strange sounds into his years and reviews music from the far out zones by Skullflower, Scorpion Bowl, Drew Mulholland, Tom James Scott, Jana Winderen, Thomas Köner, Kevin Drumm, Anjou, Lawrence English, Transllusion and Neel