Albums

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Podcasts: from Alan Partridge to Gary Oldman

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

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Album: New Light (Big Sun Records)