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This time two decades ago you could find us in the club, (with a) bottle full o’ bub; 50 Cent’s In da Club was thrashing everyone else in the charts, eventually becoming the biggest single of 2003.

T ally-ho, music fans, because March is as chockers as a birdbath in a heatwave. We have interviews with DMA'S, Mo'Ju, Jen Cloher, Adam Lambert, Matt Corby, and Ruel; we finally get to spew forth our opinion on Gorillaz' brilliantly fiendish new record Cracker Island ; in celebration of Lorde's upcoming shows in Oz this month, we're heading back to where it began with a dive into the artist's debut Pure Heroine ; Record Club gives us the goods on Whitney Houston's seminal first album; and our reviews pages are stacked with goodies from many of the above plus Conrad Sewell, Sleaford Mods, Caroline Polachek, and more. Get in! Music Editor, Zoë Radas

In 2001, a pipe organ in Germany’s St. Burchadi church began playing the 1987 piece As Slow As Possible by the late John Cage. That performance is still going – and it isn’t due to finish for another 618 years, on September 5, 2640. The next note change is due on February 5 next year – the sounding of a D4 – and will be held for 730 days. DYK?

Top to bottom: Jen Cloher, Adam Lambert, DMA'S.

Looking back at the stories behind our favourite album covers, this month it's Lana Del Rey's Born to Die (2012).

Lana Del Rey's second album Born to Die radioed sleazy and cinematic Americana glamour to the world, and up until two years ago, most fans presumed the cover art and album images were shot in the Hollywood Hills. But a rumour became truth when it was discovered that the pale green diamond-windowed bungalow and pick-up truck which feature throughout Born to Die 's bewitching aesthetic are located in... Watford. Where's Watford, you ask? It's a town in East Hertfordshire, England, generally regarded as a very dull "slice of British suburban mediocrity" (to quote one English-born STACK staffer). Its residents were as shocked as anyone to learn of the news; local newspaper the Hertfordshire Mercury deemed it "arguably one of the most mind-blowing facts of the decade, maybe the century" in its 2021 article on the revelation. No one has since discovered what exactly Lana was doing in Watford at the time, though the artist has hinted she lived in London for some years at the beginning of her career. ZKR

Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd by Lana Del Rey is out March 24 via Universal.

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