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I wrote an extended version of my interview with Jane Birkin in which she talked about Serge Gainsbourg, motherhood, and the subversive legacy of Je T'Aime. https://open.substack.com/pub/alastairmckay/p/histoire-de-jane-birkin-an-english?r=695tp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Billy Bragg and Wilco, Doing It For The Little Guy. Or, How Woody Guthrie Was Rescued From Sainthood on Mermaid Avenue

Gospel, With Bluenotes: The Mellow Fruits Of Hiss Golden Messenger's Quest For Faith

Lynne Ramsay's 'We Need To Talk About Kevin': The Omen Inverted - A Pop Art Jigsaw Of Alienation And Fear Of The Alien Within

RIP Marshall Grant, The Man Who Put The Boom in Boom Chicka Boom

"I'm never gonna be a histrionic crazy man!" The sad confession of The Jayhawks' Gary Louris

Lifeguard, Save Me From Life: Bona Drag and the Professional Misery Of Steven Patrick Morrissey

Goodbye Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel RIP. Your band, Big Star, was like The Beatles, if the Beatles Had Come From Tennessee

If Captain Beefheart Had Come From Glenrothes He Would Have Sounded Like Good And Gone (But I Like To Think He Wouldn't Have Tried To Drown Me In The Municipal Swimming Baths)

A remembrance of my friend, Alan Ruddock, who died yesterday

Carl Barât:: The Libertine Who Fell To Earth