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Brett Anderson and Mat Osman guide us through 30 years plus of catchy, dramatic alternative rock

Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont

Cum on, there’s still time to feel the noize…

With a new album and a new range of signature guitars lined up, the next 18 months are looking busy for this American blues hotshot