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Star treatment • Super-producer James Ford on helming War Child’s stellar new Help sequel from his hospital bed

Softs focus • As they celebrate 60 years of Canterbury Sound wondrousness, the ever-enduring Soft Machine pay tribute to the group’s inspirational founders

A Quick One

“We’re not precious” • The exhilarating return of cult Glasgow art-rockers Life Without Buildings

Out of hand • Jimmy McDonough’s new book raises a glass to honky-tonk country outlaw, Gary Stewart

It ain’t VG, babe • This month: six desirable overseas Bob Dylan EPs

Diggers Club Records • Second Floor, Portland House, 113-116 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AB

Ellie O’Neill • Skilled but unshowy Irish singer-songwriter exploring “the cave within”

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Play The Document • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

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BILLY CHILDISH • The Medway musketeer on playing the Star-Club, annoying geography teachers and why his band are “like a really good greasy spoon”

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY • Will Oldham’s recent run of homecoming albums finds a new richness.

LOUISVILLE TRILOGY • A Prince goes back to the region where he was raised

Q&A • Will Oldham on coming home and facing fear

COURTNEY BARNETT • Deep, fresh breaths and sweet familiarity on the Melburnian’s fourth.

Q&A • Courtney Barnett: “That’s when the truth slips past the filter…”

AtoZ • This month…

THE BEVIS FROND • Nick Saloman on keeping the psych-pop fires burning

FLEA • Serial sideman finally gets to blow his own trumpet.

Q&A • Flea: “I wept like a baby, man”

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD • The Toronto singer-songwriter returns with a country-tinged album that lives up to its title.

Q&A • Charlotte Cornfield: “I’ve been in a really positive place”

THE LONG RYDERS • Paisley Underground veterans continue their remarkable second act

TINARIWEN • Tuareg trailblazers’ fired-up 10th.

KING TUFF • “Perfection is boring,” says the revitalised Vermont rocker

ANDREW WASYLYK • The Scottish composer is guided by voices

FRANK ZAPPA, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MOTHERS • Zappa and Beefheart’s impromptu tour of ’75, featuring bomb scares, Bicentennial musings and shopping bags.

BEST OF ZAPPA/BEEFHEART • Classics, collaborations and rarities: the torture never stops

Q&A • Joe Travers, Zappa archivist

THE COLOURFIELD • When Terry Hall and new pals went “folky pop”.

AtoZ

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

RUSH • An ’80s evolution expanded.

THE SPECIALIST • Boxing up the small catalogue of a unique popstar.

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