Wild oats

Exhaustive round-up of Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers' Canterbury Scene precursors

Over the weekend, I watched one of the best music documentaries I’ve seen in an age. “Wild Combination” is subtitled “A Portrait Of Arthur Russell”, and I can only defer to The New Yorker for a start, who noted about the film, “This story begins, as many good ones do, with a gay man from Oskaloosa, Iowa, playing cello in a closet in a Buddhist seminary.”

Third album of gloriously wonky DIY noise-rock poetry from globe-trotting Yemeni-Jewish trio

California’s garage-rock wunderkind grows up, spectacularly

Antipodean jazz experimentalists find new ways to tell some epic tales

The Dubliner talks about her dark and defiant second LP as she leads us through the landscape of County Clare where the record grew out of

In tribute to Dusty Hill

Our Top 30 new old releases of the year

Robin Pecknold's tide-like ruminations on ageing, loss and uncertain times

PJ Harvey, Tom Petty, Idles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Matt Berninger, Steel Pulse, Hüsker Dü, Laura Veirs, Chris Hillman and Isaac Hayes