Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE

New tribute to their former guitarist Brian James is delivered with real passion.

Sid Lives JUNGLE

IT WAS THE summer of 1985, and Johnny Marr was a man out of time. Three years earlier, while still a teenager, the guitarist had co-founded the Smiths in Manchester, England, with vocalist Morrissey (

He turned down Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend, present at a thousand pop-culture flashpoints… Ten Years After bassist Leo Lyons explains why he’s like “the rock’n’roll Forrest Gump”.