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The DIY attitude that led to Tom Waits’ greatest album
Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of inventive instrumentation
Electronic polymath Daniel Avery on the genre-blurring magic of new album Tremor and remixing the Cure
Now on his sixth studio album, we speak to Daniel Avery and hear how he mixed the distorted with the ethereal to create the sonic universe of Tremor
“He was clearly intrigued by this ‘happening music’": When David Bowie turned junglist on Little Wonder
Exiled star returned to the music of his hometown for inspiration
“Mickie says, ‘Jeff – where's your guitar?’ ‘Oh, it's on its way to Leeds!’”: When Donovan and Jeff Beck made magic
“We knew that people were gonna go crazy listening to this amazing thing”
The story of the strange lost album that Pink Floyd abandoned in 1975
Only two tracks have ever been heard from what could have been Pink Floyd's most divisive record
“He said, ‘Nice record. Now, who should we get to sing it?’ How Paul McCartney created the Bond classic Live And Let Die
“Writing a Bond song is a bit of an accolade. I always had a sneaking ambition to do it”
UFOs! Mick Jagger! Cold War paranoia! The bizarre origins of one of the biggest hits of the 1980s
The smash hit song reflected both the decade's geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism
“It was a challenge to myself: ‘I’m not gonna have a chorus in this song’”: How Jack White created the riff of the century
"It's the kind of riff you figure out when you're learning how to play guitar"
