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2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony: Why Subversive Gestures Are Not Enough

The author would like to thank Rory Gibb, Petra Davis, John Tatlock, Kris Stewart, Purves Grundy and Tom Davies for moral and technical support

Capital Idea! Children’s Film Foundation: London Tales Explored

Adrian Lobb enjoys a new BFI DVD compiling three features created by the Children's Film Foundation, which shows London, its youth and stories for kids gradually evolving. Still from Operation Third Form

Blancmange

The Very Best Of

Thriving in Silence: Laetitia Sadier Interviewed

Ahead of tonight's RTE gig, Laetitia Sadier talks to Erin Lyndal Martin about song writing and collaboration

Samuel Yirga

Guzo

Scarlet Fever: Red Desert Revisited

Chris Roberts marvels at Michelangelo Antonioni's first colour picture, which has been restored for a theatrical re-release to mark the centenary of the late Italian director's birth. Stills courtesy of the BFI

Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction – 25 Years On

Jimmy Martin examines the perfect storm of raunch, repulsiveness and riffs that went into "the greatest hard rock record of the 80s"

Not Intimidated: Antony Hegarty Interviewed

Ahead of his mouth watering Meltdown festival, Antony talks to Joseph Burnett about collaboration and being thrust into every kitchen in the UK...

Lawrence Arabia

The Sparrow

I Dreamed Of Being An Olympic Dancer – The Quietus Auditions

Given that our office is opposite the Olympic Stadium, we thought it might be nice to get involved. So we sent Kevin EG Perry along to strut his stuff at the opening ceremony auditions

Hyperspecific Midterm Mix: Dance 12″s Of The Year So Far

Following on from our albums and reissues list, Rory Gibb offers a reductive and subjective list and mix of 25 of the best dance tracks of the year so far

The Antlers

Undersea

Saint Saviour

Union

Cooly G

Playin' Me

I Don’t Belong Here: Cathi Unsworth’s Weirdo In 13 Albums

Author and journalist Cathi Unsworth talks us through the albums that inspired her new novel Weirdo. This feature will bring dark joy to the hearts of those whose clothes are black, whose lips are purple and whose witches are red

Seek And Enjoy: Searching For Sugar Man Reviewed

Nadia Attia is enthralled by this investigative profile of cult musician Rodriguez. Main still by Hal Wilson, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Untangling The Moment: An Interview With Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi's work, both solo and in collaboration with names as wide-ranging as Fire! and Sunn O))), finds him twisting guitar tones to the point where they fold in upon themselves. He speaks to Russell Cuzner about collaboration, teaching a course on krautrock and covering Kiss

EPMD’s Business Never Personal Revisited 20 Years On

Angus Batey speaks to Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith about EPMD's underrated fourth album

Micachu & The Shapes

Never

Mission Of Burma

Unsound

Aidan Moffat Is Radge At Madge: Madonna’s Scottish Disappointment

Aidan Moffat put on his pink cowboy hat and, full of beans, went to see Madonna's first-ever Scottish gig. Sadly, she fails to rouse either Aidan or the usually-enthusiastic Scottish crowd

“Every Dream Comes To An End”: Gatekeeper Interviewed

New York/Chicago duo Gatekeeper's debut album Exo is an acid-flecked horror-vision of a virulent virtual metropolis. Charlie Fox caught up with them to discuss techno-addiction, nineties computing and obsolete technologies

The Sufis

The Sufis

“You’ve Got To Respect The Culture” – Ice-T On His Directorial Debut

At the sprightly age of 54, hip hop icon turned film and US television star Ice-T has helmed his first big screen feature, a documentary titled Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap. He explains why to Brendan Scott

Morrissey & Marr: 25 Years Since The Alliance Was Severed

This year sees the 25th anniversary of the split of The Smiths. Johnny Rogan's masterful book The Severed Alliance has itself just had a 20th anniversary reprint by Omnibus. Here, reprinted in full, is the chapter that deals with the band's last few weeks

Passion Pit

Gossamer

Little Earthquakes By Tori Amos, 20 Years On

Two decades since the release of Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes, Maxine Frances Roper looks back over an album that remains inimitable

You’ve Got Bale: The Dark Knight Rises Reviewed

Spoiler-free! Mat Colegate hails Christopher Nolan's final Batman flick

We Happy Few: On The Set Of BBC2’s Henry V

Adey Lobb joins actor Tom Hiddleston at the Battle of Agincourt as he films BBC2’s The Hollow Crown: Henry V

Like A Machine Destroying Everything: Monkey Island Interviewed Part One

Stevie Chick interviews Peter Bennett of Monkey Island, one of the greatest live groups ever and reistors to the gonzoid foofaraw of the music biz

Shrag

Canines

Volting Ambition: Revenge Of The Electric Car Reviewed

American filmmaker Chris Paine follows up his lauded 2006 investigation Who Killed The Electric Car? Stevie Chick goes for a spin