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Kacey Musgraves on writing new album Star-crossed: “You aren’t owed a visit by the muse. She can visit or not visit”

By confronting Nashville conservatism, she became the outspoken queen of “galactic country” – but how will magic mushrooms and a rose-strewn bed that resembles “some Brian Wilson shit” help Kacey Musgraves sort out her next “Big Bang explosion of ideas”?

The Specials on assembling Protest Songs 1924–2012: “All we can do is try and raise awareness. That’s our role”

Taking a stand against the “heavy atmosphere” of the last 18 months, Terry Hall, Horace Panter and Lynval Golding have recorded a set of protest songs by artists as diverse as Frank Zappa, Big Bill Broonzy and Chip Taylor

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on new B-Sides & Rarities compilation: “You can’t buy that stuff!”

As a new compilation featuring previously unreleased material from Nick Cave’s recent studio albums emerges, the Bad Seeds, with Cave himself, take us on a tour of their secret history – a rich and strange phantasmagoria of lost songs, near-forgotten gems and other sonic outcasts
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