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Editor’s Notes

‘‘He was there first’’ DAVID JOHANSEN 1950-2025 • Blondie’s Chris Stein pays tribute to an “incredibly charismatic” punk pioneer and all-round New York legend

Flame on! • As Slade In Flame turns 50, Noddy Holder and director Richard Loncraine look back at the chaotic making of a future cult classic

“They all had kind hearts” • Bridget St John’s new mini-album celebrates her lost ‘brothers’: Nick Drake, John Martyn, Kevin Ayers and Michael Chapman

A Quick One

I just wanna fly • A month before the release of Definitely Maybe, Oasis made their first trip across the Atlantic. Photographer Tom Sheehan was with them

Köln you dig it? • How do you make a film about Keith Jarrett’s legendary 1975 concert without access to any of his music?

Florist • Gentle indie-folk quartet on a mission to soothe our modern anxieties

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SUZANNE VEGA • The quintessential New York singer-songwriter on rats, remixes, “Luka” and Lou Reed’s softer side

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KASSI VALAZZA From Newman Street • Cross-country travels with a young folk artist searching for stable ground.

LITTLE DOVES AND WILDEGEESES • Two albums and a crucial EP by the New Orleans-via-Portland singer-songwriter

Q&A • Kassi Valazza: “It’s hard to write when you’re not feeling grounded”

WILLIAM TYLER • Blown-out beauty and found-sound abstractions on the Nashville guitarist’s expansive fifth.

A to Z • This month…

BENMONT TENCH • Wise and witty dispatches from former Heartbreaker and seasoned sessioneer.

HAWKWIND • Dave Brock on new planets and old songs

JERRY DAVID DECICCA • Texas resident opens his heart on sixth solo outing

BON IVER • Justin Vernon returns with an “epilogue” to his sad-troubador narrative.

EVAN PARKER • The sax legend on improv, the Oscars and his new CD boxset

SALIF KEITA • The Malian music master, unplugged.

MÀIRI MORRISON & ALASDAIR ROBERTS WITH PETE JOHNSTON & FRIENDS • Scottish-Canadian collab retraces fertile roots.

THE BLASTERS • Six years of holy rock’n’roll racket.

BLASTERS FROM THE PAST • The best records the members made after their split

Q&A • Dave Alvin on early influences, fights and regrets

LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES • A jazz-funk masterpiece hits the semicentennial mark.

A to Z • This month…

JEFF BRIDGES • The Dude talks Slow Magic, recordings he made in the late 1970s

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

JULEE CRUISE • Touchstones in the development of dream-pop from Cruise, Lynch and Badalamenti.

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