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The duo behind the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale have created a "heterotopian space" to imagine new ways of being in the world.

Young people. They’re rubbish, aren’t they? I know this. I own two young persons. But I feel I’m in a safe space here. A space where we do not have to

The A side “When The Fire Grows Cold”, a piano-led nightmare-lullaby co-sung by the legendary musician-activist, Robert Wyatt. The B side is “Extinction!”, a 7-minute Balkan-brass psychedelic fantasy featuring the late, great Daevid Allen’s glissando guitar solo and the wonderful Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey, Lydia Lunch, Tindersticks) on saxophone.

Originators of electric Jazz/Rock, Britain’s Soft Machine release "Facelift France and Holland," which captures them band at a pivotal moment in 1970 just before their breakthrough album "Third."

There’s a risk of this magazine starting to read like a fanclub for the LP. Not albums; Lieutenant Pigeon. It was intriguing to read Bob Stanley

It was a new decade, but the best albums of 1970 often dealt with the shockwaves set off by the end of the previous one.

Two of the most influential bands of the sixties and seventies are to perform in Devizes in coming weeks.

Two of the most influential bands of the sixties and seventies are to perform in Devizes in coming weeks.

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Five decades after David Bowie’s seminal tour, our music writers reflect on the concerts that have left a mark, from Billie Holiday to Billie Eilish