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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Megalopolis (2024) – Film Review

Francis Ford Coppola, now aged 85 and an undisputed master of cinema, spent 40 years working on this muddled and misguided passion project. Watching it seems almost as long.

Is it really 20 years since The Horrors emerged? I first saw them at an NME new bands event – the “Rock’n’Roll Riot” tour – at the Astoria back in 2006.

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Autumn is upon us, and here is your September soundtrack: lots of old stuff, a bit of new stuff; New Wave and old soul, rock and pop and a four-song tribute to the songwriting genius of the late great Kris Kristofferson. 

Waxahatchee releases a plaintive slice of Americana as her first new music since the acclaimed album Tigers Blood.

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