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It was this week in 1995 that a host of musicians came together and record the landmark album, the charity's CEO celebrates its birthday and its legacy

Chris Catchpole returns enlightened from a weekend (4-6 Sept) in Wiltshire with Tame Imapa, wannabe Mark E Smiths, "Sufjan" and more

Or maybe... we've added one falsehood into our celebration of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction topping the charts 50 years ago. Identify it and win new book, Rollaresque – The Rakish Progress Of The Rolling Stones, by Q's Simon Goddard

Fred Durst's strange dressing pal on why he needs to rock Reading & Leeds this weekend (28-30 Aug), then slumming it in dive bars with other his band Queen Kwong

Peep Show composer Daniel Pemberton explains how he made a throughly modern yet 60s soundtrack for the new Man From U.N.C.L.E. film

Singer-songwriter Stephen Black on why he and his contemporaries should be takin' about the great man

Frontman Yan on how the band ended-up soundtracking a film about a British eccentric obsessed by the sea (!)

Reverend & The Makers' Jon McClure is the singer-songwriter many love to hate... and looking back it turns out there's parts he's not over keen himself. With an album called Mirrors on the way, the singer takes a look at himself in a candid self-appraisal

The singer on how songwriting sessions with T Bone Burnett, Rosanne Cash and a lot of malt whisky led to her mysterious role in the second season of the cop drama

From secret mix tape releases to private island gigs and going viral with Tom Cruise, Matt Mason charts Abel Tesfaye's intriguing journey into the spotlight

Matthew Yates watches Jack Steadman and co's “last gig for a very long time” and more in Somerset at the weekend (25-26 Jul)

Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Wilko Johnson, Graham Coxon and more feature in the photographer's forthcoming book

Forget t-shirts, coffins, pinball machines or even skis – looking at you Metallica – the Teesside band explain how they've got back to basics for their strange band merch

Paul Stokes watches the singer-songwriter dash from the theatre to perform a secret set at The Social in London last night (1 Jul)

Kanye's aerial adventures, the bests guests, secret stages and much more. Q’s Chris Catchpole presents the best moments – and video highlights – from the weekend (26-28 Jun)

Didn't get tickets for the festival? Fear not, Q's JJ Dunning has devised a little 'game' to make sure watching at home is as messy as conditions down on Worthy Farm...

With the full release of their Record Store Day EP Happy New Year at the start of June and a US tour beckoning this month, Brian Ritchie from the band explains why their 15 year studio aversion came to an end

Jamie Skey's suggested listening for the week ahead (15 Jun)

Publishing his first book, memoir Jolly Lad, seemed a bold enough creative step for music journalist John Doran, that was until Nicky Wire and a host of musicians stepped in with a different idea... LP HUBRIS. Plus listen to an exclusive preview of his Manics collaboration

Ahead of a Classic Album Sundays talk next week (16 Jun) focusing on his band's acclaimed debut, the bassist recalls the record's making

Ahead of a campaigning gig tomorrow (11 June), the singer-songwriter offers a personal critique of changing cityscapes

Jamie Skey's suggested listening for the week ahead (18 May)

Prints signed by their subjects are on show at the Royal Albert Hall until 4 June – and will be auctioned for charity this Saturday (16 May)

Jamie Skey's suggested listening for the week ahead (11 May)

With his own due out in June, the arranger and composer discusses adding orchestral flourishes to the likes of Blur, Coldplay, Morrissey and more

With Woolf Works, his collaboration with The Royal Ballet, opening next week (11 May) – plus works featuring contemporary acts – the contemporary composer, explains why writing music for dance is "is like going on holiday" Plus the role his milkman played in his classical career...

With new novel Dress Rehearsal Brags set among "the more 'peripheral' aspects of popular culture", author and filmmaker Graham Bendel issues a rally cry for creation at culture's fringes

As she published a book on festivals, the broadcaster gives us her advice for surviving a weekend in a field of music (and mud, probably...)

Disheartened by some of his contemporaries' responses ahead of Thursday's (7 May) General Election, Spector's Fred Macpherson argues it's fine if band's have no political opinion, but they should think before sharing that

The psych heavyweights' Jon Richards presents a personal essay on the spectrum of artists – and faces – he surveys from inside the UK indie scene

Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (20 Apr)

Having just released the first record they've ever done with a producer, the band's Jon Ouin ponders what the knob twiddlers bring to the artists' party

With members of Radiohead, The National and now Teenage Fanclub's Francis MacDonald finding acclaim with classical work, Sam Warner argues recent crossover projects are more than ego stroking, vanity projects

Keyboard player Josh Hunnisetton this Saturday's (18 Apr) the annual record shop celebration – plus the premiere of new track The Shipping Forecast from the band's 2015 exclusive release

Read the final part of Garry Cobain's personal journey as he comes face to face with the Wizards Of Oz

Read a chapter – or rather a gig – from the singer-songwriter's new book

Read the second part of Garry Cobain's personal journey as the bubble explodes...

Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit... and sometimes the singer-songwriter writes a track-by-track guide for Q

Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (7 Apr)

Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (30 Mar)