Roxy Music’s Avalon gets a pretentious but illuminating overview

Music book reviews: Jon Savage reissues and Will Sergeant memoir among other highlights

Joe Burrow’s speed-of-light ascent is every bit of the American dream

From back-up quarterback to Heisman Trophy winner to No 1 pick in the NFL draft

Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’

New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring

How Pete Shelley and the Buzzcocks invented indie

The Manchester band’s first release reshaped pop music. With no industry support, they pressed and sold the EP themselves, and kickstarted a revolution

Teenage

Lorde leads the new teenage kicks

The rise and rise of New Zealand teen Lorde has put the focus back on proper teen pop. Jim Carroll goes in search of pop’s brightest young things