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Pickwick Records specialized in elevator music and clearance-rack recordings major labels wanted to rid themselves of. One of its releases, however, was not like the others… and featured Lou Reed

Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Lukas Graham, the Showtime series “Your Honor” starring Bryan Cranston returns for its second and final season, and “Hellbound” director Yeon Sang-Ho unveils his new sci-fi action pic, the dystopian “Jung_E,” where Earth has become uninhabitable and war is about to…

From Rachmaninov to pop reunions, Beyoncé’s tour to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Spielberg to Sam Smith, our critics guide you through the next 12 months

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

The US musician’s Titanic Rising saw her hailed as the ‘millennial Joni Mitchell’. She talks about her new album examining our turbulent times

Before they take to the stage with Cale for his 80th birthday concert, the three reflect on how Wales’s greatest living musician subverted what it means to be a Welsh musician

Contributions from John Cale, Judy Collins and more illuminate the singer-songwriter’s art through his best-known song

The 23-year-old Reed and John Cale try things out for size in this treasure trove of previously unreleased demos