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Arooj Aftab: “If you’re an artist with an ego, you’re not a good artist”

The Brooklyn-based singer-composer reveals her love of hedonism and the full extent of her musical ambitions

Kurt Vile, Cat Power and more dig deep into the genius of The Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main St: “It has got everything”

A band on the run. A decadent mansion in the South of France. One song called “Bent Green Needles” and another about Brian Jones. A double album that, against all odds, became the creators’ most iconic work

The Black Keys: “I had the most fun on Dropout Boogie over any other record”

In Nashville, the world's biggest small band talk early days, detentions and lost fingers

Bryan Ferry on Roxy Music: “We were all hungry to learn”

As Roxy reunite to mark their 50th anniversary, Ferry looks back at the group’s eight fabulous creations

An audience with Glen Matlock: “Music can be a release and it can be a rallying cry”

With a fiery solo album ready to roll, the Sex Pistols songwriter talks "Anarchy In The UK", activism and gigging in the DMZ

Michael Head on making his glorious comeback album Dear Scott: “Just keep fuckin’ going”

The return of England's greatest living songwriter: we visit the Wirral Peninsula to discover how the Shack man dispelled his demons and made the perfect comeback

The making of The Associates’ “Party Fears Two”

After a night out drinking, two friends conjure up a magical piano riff. But the time’s not right, so for three years it stays “in our back pocket”…

Miles Davis’ closest collaborators look back on the raw genius of ‘Electric Miles’: “Man he had all the arrows under his belt…”

Fifty years after On The Corner, key players discuss the raw power of 'Electric Miles', as he turned on, turned in and freaked out

The making of Spiritualized’s “I Think I’m In Love”

An eight-minute opus in two halves: part blissed-out space ballad, part focused groove: “The lyric just seemed to roll off,” says Jason Pierce

The thrilling chaos of the Congotronics supergroup: “Not a day went by without somebody breaking down in tears”

Congotronics International – the supergroup featuring Konono No 1, Kasai Allstars, Deerhoof, Juana Molina and more – finally captured on record
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We get a brief glance of Arooj Aftab’s home base – a light-filled room in a shared brownstone in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy, borrowed double bass propped against the wall – before she politely asks to switch the camera off. It’s still early, and the singer is feeling a little worse for wear follo...

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