Music Reviews

Dr Feelgood - All Through The City

Dr Feelgood - All Through The City

Long overdue boxset includes the four original albums, plus extras...

Dr John - Locked Down

Dr John - Locked Down

Among the residents of Treme, David Simon’s HBO drama series about the...

Morrissey - Viva Hate

Morrissey - Viva Hate

Moz reissues his fine solo debut...

Grateful Dead - All The Years Combine

Grateful Dead - All The Years Combine

The full extent of the Dead’s official DVD arsenal...

Andrew Bird - Break It To Yourself

Andrew Bird - Break It To Yourself

Chicagoan prodigy drops his guard and takes flight..

Michael Kiwanaku - Home Again

Michael Kiwanaku - Home Again

Earnest, soulful debut from hotly tipped North Londoner...

Julia Holter - Ekstasis

Julia Holter - Ekstasis

EA new American maverick finds her voice...

John Cale - Conflict & Catalysis: Productions & Arrangements 1966-2006

John Cale - Conflict & Catalysis: Productions & Arrangements 1966-2006

The Velvet Underground man’s knob-twiddling years.

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968

Fly on the psychedelic wall: The Bear's sonic journals snag a masterpiece...

Lee Ranaldo - Between The Times And The Tides

Lee Ranaldo - Between The Times And The Tides

Sonic Youth guitarist makes his 'proper song' debut...

The Shins - Port Of Morrow

The Shins - Port Of Morrow

Career. Commitment. Can this really be The Shins? It surely can...

The Chemical Brothers - Don't Think

The Chemical Brothers - Don't Think

Brothers gonna work it out live in Japan...

Dirty Three - Towards The Low Sun

Dirty Three - Towards The Low Sun

Album ten finds Warren Ellis and company staking out new and beautiful territory...

The Jazz Baroness

The Jazz Baroness

Mini-bio of the great Thelonius Monk...

Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks

Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks

A sprightly Modfather, bringing it all back home on another career-high solo album...

Django Django - Django Django

Django Django - Django Django

Spirited art-rock from swashbuckling quartet...

Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America

Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America

The follow-up to Hadestown seals Mitchell’s pre-eminence...

Jim White - Where It Hits You

Jim White - Where It Hits You

Rousing fifth solo LP from peripatetic US maverick...

Shearwater - Animal Joy

Shearwater - Animal Joy

Okkervil River lifeboat sails into rockier waters...

Pink Floyd - The Wall Immersion Edition

Pink Floyd - The Wall Immersion Edition

Edited highlights: a new 7CD/DVD 'Immersion' box set includes 64 demos from the archives...

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Editor's Letter

Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!


“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and...