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Guitarist says writing the track is still 'one of the best memories' of his life

Being a singer-songwriter is a tricky business. Which route do you take? You can always attempt to bludgeon your audience into submission with the sheer power of your one act show, or you can entrance them with the ethereal magic of your fragile performance. So far, we've seen both sides of the singer-songwriter paradox (well, as we like to call it) in just a few hours at End Of The Road Festival, first with Stephanie Dosen's disturbing, delicate folk and then with John Doe's straight-down-the-line country blues.

Former X rocker swaps urban noise for pastoral reverie

The renegade jazz poet and one-time MC5 manager on John Lennon, surviving jail and kicking out the jams

On grief, glam rock and the UK vs the USA

High-octane explorers Osees take a “scum-punk” turn with intense new album, A Foul Form, their most urgent and topically engaged to date

FJM flew to LA to assist Win Butler and Régine Chassagne while Gabriel contributed to a dance track called "Unconditional II (Race and Religion)"

Lush, orchestral heartbreak from Josh Tillman’s divisive and unforgivingly gifted alter ego

The newly announced record is aiming to "tell the story of one of the world’s most influential and extraordinary bands"

The song appears on John's forthcoming collaborations album The Lockdown Sessions