Daily Newsletter, January 29, 2023

Some impressions just remain within

Marquee Moon is pure music gumbo, a staggering combination of contrasting aesthetics that slashes with punk rock grit and with jazzy guitar virtuosity.

Ahead of their time.

A compilation dredged together from a series of private press recordings of the core Wolf Eyes crew collaborating with friends is the perfect weird prism through which to examine the lockdown period we've just been through, says Daryl Worthington

Essential.

The group preserves and pays homage to one of Cuba's most important musical forms, with a vitality demonstrating that the septeto tradition is still fresh and alive in Santiago de Cuba today.

Movie lovers will continue to see this trend of book adaptions as the popularity of these films continues to soar.

Danez Smith on Paul Harding, Scott Bradfield on Chekhov, Ron Charles on Aleksandar Hemon, and more

From chart-toppers to singers who spent decades in obscurity, here are 12 albums by women that shaped folk music in the 1960s and '70s, and remain timeless and influential today...