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• Lennon To mark the 30th anniversary since Lennon’s first posthumous release ‘Milk And Honey’, Barry Nicolson investigates the story behind an enigmatic hero in his final sessions
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• Warpaint Discovering that there may be a fifth member of the LA band called ‘tension’, Hazel Sheffield heads to Holland to find four musicians at once together and fractious
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• Manchester Manchester may be a city renowned for its historical footprint in music but, as Simon Jay Catling discovers, there are new legends in the making worth shouting about
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• From The Vaults: Pavement, 1994 20 years after they released their second album ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’, we revisit Simon Williams’ interview with Stephen Malkmus in London.
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ALSO INSIDE THIS WEEK:

• Why did Angel Haze leak her own album? The reasoning behind her ‘fuck you’ to the label is revealed
• Who will be heading out on this year’s NME Awards Tour? Find out and hear from 2014’s brave rock’n’roll souls
• Which song does Brett Anderson dance around the kitchen to? Clue: it’s particularly good for pulling up to the toaster to
• Anatomy of an album: Gene – ‘Olympian’
• In The Studio: Temples
• Interviews with:
  • Bombay Bicycle Club
  • T Bone Burnett on Inside Lleweyn Davis
  • Angel Olsen
  • Bradford Cox
  • Wild Beasts
• Album Reviews:
  • Broken Bells
  • Marijuana Deathsquads
  • The Gaslight Anthem
  • Cymbals
  • Drowners
  • Dum Dum Girls
  • Actress
  • Supreme Cuts
  • Peggy Sue
• Caught Live:
  • Action Bronson
  • Fat White Family, King Krule and Childhood
  • Against Me!
  • Joanna Gruesome / September Girls
  • Menace Beach
  • Baby Strange
  • Girl Band
  • Cass McCombs
  • Honeyblood