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Anarchy In South Kensington! The Pistols storm the Albert Hall

Brett Anderson, Khruangbin, Michael Head, Isobel Campbell, Diiv, Six Organs Of Admittance and much more

Talking Heads, Bob Marley, The Waterboys, Kim Gordon, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Phosphorescent, Michael Moorcock and more

His many fans will no doubt wonder at the absence of anything by Wayne County from the list of Top 50 American punk albums we've compiled as part of this month's cover story on the Ramones. After all, Wayne – who by 1980 was Jayne County, following the necessary surgery – was with his band Queen Elizabeth part of the same Max's Kansas City, Mercer Arts Center and Club 82 scene that nurtured the early New York Dolls.

I’ve never played guitar, so may not be the best person to judge, and I’m generally averse to wild comparatives and superlatives in music reviews. Watching Arbouretum last night, though – it was somewhere in the last quarter of “Song Of The Nile”, to be specific – I started to think that, just maybe, Dave Heumann might be one of the best guitarists I’ve seen play in years.

A conversation last week about REM’s South By Southwest show resulted, yesterday afternoon, in me digging out my old copy of “Reckoning”. Apparently, they’d played “Second Guessing” (as well as “Auctioneer” from “Fables Of The Reconstruction”) at the show so, in preparation for the Albert Hall gig, I thought I’d revisit the album.

A conversation last week about REM’s South By Southwest show resulted, yesterday afternoon, in me digging out my old copy of “Reckoning”. Apparently, they’d played “Second Guessing” (as well as “Auctioneer” from “Fables Of The Reconstruction”) at the show so, in preparation for the Albert Hall gig, I thought I’d revisit the album.

The band kick off ICA birthday celebrations with one-off show

Uncut pays tribute to the Love frontman and psychedelic hero.

Tom Waits’ go-to guitarist on his journey through blues, punk, jazz and beyond: “The musicians are caught up in a ritual”