Don’t forget the motor city

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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.

Often dismissed as some form of flimsy lightweight buffer between glam and punk, 1976 was in reality a much stranger and stronger 12 months than its reputation suggests. A hot year of pop, soul and di

Feeling hassled by The Man? Andrew Male smooths the path.

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