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The alt-country four-piece have become a staple on BBC 6 Music, with a patchwork sound that folds in The Beatles, The Carpenters, and Fiona Apple. On the cusp of their headline tour, the band decamp to the pub with Megan Graye to talk all things touring, songwriting – and the…

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Robbie Robertson hooked up with producer Daniel Lanois for his debut solo album, conjuring up a fashionably atmospheric twist to his ongoing fascination with American culture

Farewell to London’s Le Gavroche, India Club, Banner’s and countless others that have hosted family celebrations down the decades

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Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra

David Bowie in The Lord Of The Rings? John Lydon in Quadrophenia? WASP’s Blackie Lawless as The Terminator? These are the Oscar-winning performances that never were

Moving on from his sad-clown antics with a beguiling set of instrumentals and fan faves, strung together by Tom Waitsy banter, DeMarco is a magnetic performer