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‘I wanted to make people dance, or cry, or puke’: Marc Ribot, the wildcard sideman for Tom Waits, Robert Plant and more

He started as a jazz guitarist making Barbie albums on the side, and has ended up on over 500 releases. From bebop with Elton John to Americana with Alison Krauss, Ribot recalls the richest of careers

The Guardian - UK

SNL and Letterman producers’ son is accused of slashing three people in a bar fight

The son of Hal Willner, the Saturday Night Live veteran nicknamed the ‘man with the golden Rolodex’, and Emmy-award winning producer, Sheila Rogers, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder

The Independent UK

‘There was a little bit of the devil in her’: Damon Albarn and Rufus Wainwright remember Marianne Faithfull

The Blur frontman remembers a boisterous songwriting session, while Wainright recalls a week of partying and conversations about ‘music, sex and the craziness of life’

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Marianne Faithfull obituary

Singer who found pop fame and tabloid infamy in the 60s but returned to music in the 70s with Broken English, a statement of bloody-minded survival

The Guardian - UK

If the idea of Shane McGowan, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Pete Doherty singing Disney classics together sounds like an acid-fried fever dream, trust us, the reality was even weirder

Three of alternative music's leading forces (and Pete Doherty) delivering a night of avant garde Disney classics? If it sounds weird, that's because it was

Louder

‘A huge labor of love’: the Lou Reed exhibition years in the making

At the New York Public Library, an expansive new exhibition shares previously unseen personal artifacts and demos

The Guardian - US

‘I was losing words. I didn’t remember the week before’: Beth Orton on chronic illness, MeToo and motherhood

On her brilliant new album, Orton ploughs her deepest emotions – and doesn’t hold back. She talks about living with Crohn’s disease, her identity struggles and the limits placed on women

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