In this issue:

2023: The essential preview – Iggy Pop in the raw – 140 reviews: Thin Lizzy, John Cale, Paul McCartney, Margo Price & more – The Stones. Torn! Frayed! Unseen! – Jerry Lee Lewis: ‘There ain’t no explaining me that easy’ – X-Ray Spex: Poly Styrene’s Day-Glo vision – Blur: ‘Damon’s a maniac!’ – Billy Strings. Bluegrass Freaks unite – Robert Forster: Go-betweens and beyond – Keith Levene + Wilko Johnson. The guitar revolutionaries – 50th anniversary special – Pink Floyd. The dark side of the moon. The final frontier – Robyn Hitchcock – The Murder Capital – Alex Chilton