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Bill Wilson - Ever Changing Minstrel

Bill Wilson - Ever Changing Minstrel

Back from the bargain bin, a lost piece of southern-soul-baring...

The XX - Coexist

The XX - Coexist

Sensual second proves even better than the first...

Produced By George Martin

Produced By George Martin

A fascinating journey through the life of the producer who changed the world...

The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - 35th anniversary box set

The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - 35th anniversary box set

Shambolic punk artefact gets the grand, 3-CD and DVD box-set treatment, with lavish book. Punk...

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat + Bone

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat + Bone

It's now seven years since Damage, the last Blues Explosion album, a hiatus...

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Class of '09 grads think bigger; wilder.

Frank Zappa/The Mothers Of Invention reissues

Frank Zappa/The Mothers Of Invention reissues

The Zappa Motherlode: 12 albums reissued this month and 48 more by the end of the year...

Cat Power - Sun

Cat Power - Sun

The once-troubled singer returns. Has she finally got her shit together?

Calexico - Algiers

Calexico - Algiers

The desert rockers soak up some New Orleans spirit, with refreshing results...

Bob Dylan - Tempest

Bob Dylan - Tempest

Bob Dylan’s fantastic new album opens with a train song. Given the wrath to...

Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

“Sometimes you gotta go get mad!” The full gang reconvene in Baltimore for a feral but friendly...

Bill Fay - Life Is People

Bill Fay - Life Is People

Beautifully measured return to the studio from this humble master of English song...

The Kinks - The Kinks At The BBC

The Kinks - The Kinks At The BBC

From the beginning the Kinks’ career was intimately entwined with the BBC. In...

James Yorkston - I Was A Cat From A Book

James Yorkston - I Was A Cat From A Book

Alt.folkie calms down, but still delivers some classics...

Ry Cooder - Election Special

Ry Cooder - Election Special

Ryland’s points a righteous finger at the “deacons in the High Church of the Next Dollar”...

Lee Hazelwood - A House Safe For Tigers

Lee Hazelwood - A House Safe For Tigers

Soundtrack album, from Hazlewood’s mysterious exile in Sweden...

Elton John - 5 Classic Albums (1970 - 73)

Elton John - 5 Classic Albums (1970 - 73)

From humble ivory-tickler to global sensation - the singer-songwriter's rise chronicled...

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes

Now available in stereo: LA minstrel’s junkshop hi-fi comes to life...

Ride reissues

Ride reissues

Shoegazing icons majestic catalogue reissued...

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Live At The Checkerboard Lounge

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Live At The Checkerboard Lounge

Momentous all-star blues jam in Chicago...

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Editor's Letter

Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...