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Tangled up in Tulsa • Lucinda Williams, Kevin Morby and Adam Granduciel on getting to be Dylan for a day at the Blood On The Tracks tribute show

Banshee’s back • After decades in the wilderness, banished Banshee John McKay has returned with a new band and an album of lost recordings

A kind of love-in • Remembering the sights, sounds and smells of ’60s psychedelic sanctuary, Middle Earth

Clash in the attic! • Mick Jones reopens his Rock & Roll Public Library

“It’s such a magic connection” • Brian D’Addario of The Lemon Twigs makes friends with beat poet and Beach Boys lyricist Stephen Kalinich

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Silver Synthetic • Dig Neil Young, Teenage Fanclub and Rose City Band? Then step this way…

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Time To Fly • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

MADDY PRIOR • The Steeleye Span singer on Bowie, Quo, King Arthur and who was really inside those Wombles costumes

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THE WATERBOYS Life, Death And Dennis Hopper SUN • Mike Scott and co’s charming, if unhinged, tribute to a Hollywood rebel.

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CITY HOPPER • Three stops on the road to Dennis

Q&A

EIKO ISHIBASHI Antigone DRAG CITY 9/10 • Greek myths inspire dystopian soundtracks to the 21st century.

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Q&A • Eiko Ishibashi “I try to use sounds and words that clash in meaning”

A to Z This month…

BOB MOULD Here We Go Crazy GRANARY MUSIC/BMG 8/10 • Ex-Hüsker Dü man turns tumultuous times into direct hits.

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Q&A • Bob Mould: “I’m trying to have a good time and stay alive”

MOHAMMAD MOSTAFA HEYDARIAN • “The tanbur sounds like western Iran to me”

TOBACCO CITY Horses SCISSOR TAIL 9/10 • Elevated cosmic country from the suburban Midwest

ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION • Jerry Douglas: “Alison has gone up a level”

BROWN HORSE All The Right Weaknesses LOOSE 8/10 • Wondrous, wider-ranging second from Norfolk six-piece, forged on the road.

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Q&A • Rowan Braham: “We’ve been able to push things a lot further”

BEIRUT A Study Of Losses POMPEII 8/10 • Curiosities and captivating melodies on Zach Condon’s seventh.

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Q&A • Zach Condon: “It feels like staring into the void”

SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT Sings The Passing RUSTED RAIL 9/10 • Shy Sheffielder’s soft, bewitching return.

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Q&A • Duncan Sumpner: “I like people’s stories, the things that unite us”

SOULED AMERICAN Rise Above It: A Souled American Anthology OMNIVORE • Alt.country...