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LET'S SHOP

There's nothing more that Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs likes more than a good few hours spent digging through the crates at his favourite UK record store. Which is why we join him by the racks at London's Stranger Than Paradise. Chris Catchpole witnesses the vinyl love.

NUMB ANGEL

Lewis Taylor was a contender, hailed by the critics and name-dropped by everyone from Paul Weller to Elton John. Following attempts to sell him as a soul boy when he was more a UK Tame Impala - less Acid Jazz than acid and jazz he made a few dazzling records, then disappeared. Rumours circulated that he'd absented himself from social media and the music industry in general and was living as a recluse. But, after nearly two decades away, he's released a new album, NUMB, which shows him in as rude vocal and compositional health as ever, and finally ready to explain where he's been. It's madness: Matt Phillips

Not Forgotten

He demanded 48 vocal takes from Cilla, before choosing the second

A Fitting Farewell

When two songwriting greats combined.

Revival Stories

Startling modern soul from sexagenarian comeback kid.

THE ENGINE ROOM

The unsung heroes who helped forge modern music

33 1/2 minutes with...Paul Jones

Since his rise to mid-60s stardom with Manfred Mann, Paul Jones has been one of Britain's premier blues/R&B singers.

JAVID QUANTICK LIKES

To write a column for Record Collector. Yay Best Known Album Syndrome

MUSIC TO VISIT

Bob Stanley carries pop's baggage everywhere Shhh... library music

Daisy Cutter

Double-LP reissue becomes an unintended tribute to a hip-hop great.

Seminal Works

The records that helped the art-pop trailblazers crack the big time - and broke their original line-up.

Diggin' For GOLD

Our regular look at the more arcane corners of record collecting. Includes Vintage Venue

PAN PEOPLE

Delphina James, whose homage to Kraftwerk is a new entry in the RRPG, tells lan Shirley about arranging electronic music for steel bands and her new project, playing the music of modern composer Ludovico Einaudi

Method In The Sadness

The 21st-century Karen Carpenter fashions a marathon of meta-melancholy, with a few new tricks.

UNDER THE RADAR

Artists, bands, and labels meriting more attention

DEMIGODDESS

Scottish rocker delivers glimmering display in symphonic setting

Single File

Make room on the crowded Beatle shelf for this magnificent tome.

Dark Magic

Three-decade high from Basildon's finest on blackest celebration yet.

CHAIRMAN OF THE KEYBOARD

With a new illustrated account of his life, Keith Emerson, out now, the partner of ELP's keyboard virtuoso, Mari Kawaguchi, and his son, Aaron Emerson, tell us his story via 12 key images from the book, all the way from 1966 right up to his death in 2016.

The HUMAN TOUCH

As we celebrate Rachmaninov's 150th anniversary this month, Andrew Green talks with leading musicians who explain why there's so much more to a composer often derided as nostalgic and melancholic

THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW - Kirill Gerstein

Mine wasn't the archetypal musician's tortured childhood, playing nothing but scales and etudes

An orchestral odyssey

In the footsteps of Prokofiev and Britten, with assistance from a sprite and an A-list team, American composer Mason Bates has created a new audiovisual guide to the orchestra; he explains all to Tom Stewart

RPS Music Awards 2023

Rebecca Franks meets the founders of Manchester Collective, winners of the Ensemble Award, to learn their recipe for success

Call of the Nile

With its pharaohs, hieroglyphs, mummies and gods, Egypt has long fascinated composers, keen to capture its unique allure, says Claire Jackson

Sergei Rachmaninov - All-Night Vigil (Vespers)

The composer's love of the music and rituals of the Orthodox Church were distilled in this masterpiece; Daniel Jaffé finds the best recording

CHRIS HAYES

GW catches up with the guitarist whose stellar solos and riffs graced Huey Lewis and the News' era-defining songs, including \"I Want a New Drug\" and \"The Power of Love\"

GENRE-NEUTRAL

MISHA MANSOOR, MARK HOLCOMB, and JAKE BOWEN take you deep inside their latest slice of trademark Periphery riffery, Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre

SUPERNOVAS

HOW U.K. SENSATIONS NOVA TWINS CREATED THEIR HEAVY AND UNIQUE SOUND AND WHY THEIR PEDALBOARDS REMAIN A CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET

Tensile Strength

CORT KX700 EVERTUNE

Proof of Concept

ABASI CONCEPTS ĒMI 7 MASTER SERIES