Sophie Thatcher not only co-stars in Heretic but contributes this gorgeous cover of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door to the soundtrack.

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Ringo Starr releases the first track from a new album of country songs written and produced with T Bone Burnett at the age of 84.

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October is the mellowest month, said no one in particular. But in a way it is: autumn settling in, the days getting shorter, the leaves beginning to turn, coats and scarves and hats coming out of closets. And here’s a suitably mellow playlist to soundtrack the darkening of the days. (more…)

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Lone Justice tackled The Undertones’ greatest song Teenage Kicks when they kicked off the LA cowpunk scene and paved the way for alt-country.

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Acoustic bluesman Eric Bibb found fame in his mid-forties and is still making remarkable music on his steel-strong guitar at the age of 73.

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David Gilmour plays guest guitar on this magnificent version of his own song Comfortably Numb by Ice-T’s thrash metal band Body Count.

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Joaquin Phoenix’s sad version of this song was one of the many delightful surprises I discovered when I watched Joker: Folie A Deux in an otherwise empty cinema last night.

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Sharon Van Etten is one of several artists interpreting Tom Petty on the soundtrack of Bad Monkey, based on Carl Hiaasen’s 2013 novel.

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This is so heartbreakingly sad. Nell Smith, the teenage girl from Leeds who recorded a stunning album of Nick Cave cover versions with Flaming Lips, has died at the age of 17.

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