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The Bangles frontwoman on the records that lit her eternal flame: “I always think of music as my drug”

The Indications frontman on his love of jazz, pop and storytelling soul: “It allows your imagination to run wild.”

1998’s immaculate collaboration expanded into a phantom musical, with unreleased covers and live cuts

“I’m not ashamed to say I did love this man for everything he gave”

This year's ceremony will be held in November at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles

Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Dolly Parton, Rage Against The Machine are also nominated

A debut of remarkable vision and maturity, now with unreleased, non-album demos

From his new covers album California Son, out May 24

March 2013, Richmond, Virginia. Matthew E White's Big Inner album has become a minor word-of-mouth sensation: a country-soul fantasia, saturated with lavish horn and string arrangements, mostly recorded in the attic of his Richmond house (You can read my 2013 interview with Matthew E White here).

Dan Michaelson is not a particularly prolific Tweeter, but between musing about IKEA hotdogs and the time he DJed in Topshop (playing John Tavener, Laurie Anderson and ESG back-to-back) he found time to re-Tweet a backhanded compliment from a thoughtful soul called @recordshopbloke. “I do like Dan Michaelson's records,” said the bloke, “but sometimes it’s a bit like a mate on the phone going on endlessly about his tragic life.”