Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist and positive force Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield left us on November 20.

Fondly remembered this month...

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

Out of Perth, Western Australia, David McComb’s post-punk melancholics created intoxicating music of intense feeling. Now, four decades after their classic album Born Sandy Devotional , members and intimates remember high inspiration, heroin, a song on TV soap Neighbours, the wide open road and the world of late leader McComb. “Dave worked on his songwriting 24-7,” they recall. “It was the delightful adventure that we were all willing to go on…”

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow