White tony joe

I had the good fortune to interview Jim Jarmusch recently for our An Audience With… feature. As you’d imagine, it was interesting, wide-ranging chat, and inevitably not everything we talked about made it into the magazine. There’s a couple of things in particular that seemed pretty interesting – not least the ‘full’ answer he gave to a question regarding the current status of The Sons Of Lee Marvin, a shadowy cabal whose members – allegedly – include Jarmusch, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Iggy Pop.

Soulful debut is stunning introduction to producer's talents...

Stars reflect on Bolan's life while performing his best loved songs

On the absence of Bob Britt, the shout out to Joe Strummer and the post-show patience of Jimmy Page

Willy Vlautin and Amy Boone discuss their hard-luck tales and stunning balladry

Aussie guitar gang’s full potential epically realised

Classic – and classy – Southern country soul on quintet’s third

Life before Mac: the very underrated blues debut from Mrs McVie.

The Music Is Our Friend tour is slated to kick off in July

Bob Dylan, Paul Weller, Marianne Faithfull, Stephen Stills, Spiritualized, Can, The Strokes, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, James, UB40, My Bloody Valentine, the Plastic Ono Band and Sun Ra