“wilco’s an unpopular pop band.”

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b

Strawbs co-founder Dave Cousins died in July following a long illness. The singer, songwriter and guitarist enjoyed an active musical career spanning more than six decades and has been name-checked by many musicians as a key influence and inspiration. We reflect on his rich legacy and reveal plans for a number of posthumous releases, including the long-awaited new Strawbs album.

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

Having pushed MODERN NATURE as far out into the free-folk ether as they could go, Jack Cooper has brought it right back to first principles with The Heat Warps – an album of succinct and distinctly Beatlesque songcraft, recorded live with a classic four-piece band, that speaks directly to our turbulent times. “We’re not hiding behind anything,” the newly energised frontman tells Sam Richards

WHILE MOST DUAL-GUITAR bands tend to have designated roles in terms of what kind of sonic space their members occupy, Momma six-stringers Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten enjoy being unrestricted,

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