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Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

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In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

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London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

We all laughed at Alan Partridge when he said his favourite Beatles album was “The Best Of The Beatles”. But might he secretly have had a point? In the streaming age, the hits compilation has become a