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No Checked Tablecloths: Rockfort & The Meaning of ‘Frenchness’ in Pop

Pondering on the recent Jonathan Meades series On France, our French music correspondent David 'Rockfort' McKenna looks at definitions of Gallic pop

Your Attention Please… Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs Interviewed

Greg Dulli is coming out swinging... fighting for his rep as always. Simon Price takes notes

Kool Things: Blank City Reviewed

Debbie Harry, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Steve Buscemi and Thurston Moore are just a few of the talking heads in this documentary looking back at 'New Cinema New Wave New York'. David Pollock is entertained. Photo by Marcia Resnick

Hood

Recollected (box set)

Julia Holter

Ekstasis

Everything Was Fucked: Warren Ellis Discusses The Dirty Three

A few years ago, The Dirty Three were in a pickle, having to ask festival crowds for song ideas. Warren Ellis tells Luke Turner how they overcame writers' block to write new album Toward The Low Sun

Reel Gone: A Useful Life And Cinema’s Premature Nostalgia

Released on DVD this week, Uruguayan critical favourite A Useful Life is an elegiac love letter to celluloid. Hannah Gregory muses on our growing obsession with old media and analogue formats, in film and elsewhere

Mutate To Survive: Andrew Bird Interviewed

Jeremy Allen talks to Andrew Bird ahead of next Monday's Sold Out Barbican show about protection via obtuseness and working for Muppets

“I Feel Like This Is My Best Work”: James Mercer Of The Shins Interviewed

David Pollock talks to James Mercer before the release of their much anticipated new album, Port Of Morrow

Hanne Hukkelberg

Featherbrain

Davy Jones Of The Monkees – A Tribute By Taylor Parkes

Remembering the former Monkee who died this week at the age of 66

25 Years On: Franks Wild Years By Tom Waits Revisited

Marc Waldburger primes his high ball glass and tells us how he feels about the least talked about LP in Tom Waits' Island trilogy

Starting Over: The Ting Tings Interviewed

Stephen Dalton talks to Katie and Jules about Babylon an' Ting

Baader Romance: If Not Us, Who? Reviewed

German documentary maker Andres Veiel's first feature film portrays the 'radical love story' behind the Red Army Faction. Val Phoenix assesses the dramatic value of this de facto prequel to The Baader Meinhof Complex

Talk Less, Say More

England Without Rain

School Of Seven Bells

Ghostory

Against The New Naive: ‘Innocence’, Branding, & Michel Houellebecq

Making reference to "grating" artist Robert Montgomery and the Western quest for washy naïveté, Joe Kennedy wonders if controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq might have the antidote

You Can Dance Until You Die: An Interview With Beth Jeans Houghton

John Freeman goes to Beth Jeans Houghton’s hometown of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to drink coffee and find out why, with the release of her debut album Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose, her career can finally begin

The Month’s Electronic Music: Alive In The Sea Of Information

Hyperspecific spends time with some of February's best dance music. Rory Gibb is your correspondent

Pop Ist Nicht Tot: Rammstein Flame It Live At The O2

Days after the Brits tediumathon at the O2, Rammstein set fire to the place not only with eyebrow singeing pyrotechnics, but also some killer tunes that even your Billy Joel fan would love, says Toby Cook. Photographs by Katja Ogrin

The Ting Tings

Sounds From Nowheresville

Staples’ Diet: Tindersticks Interviewed

As Tindersticks release their brilliant new album The Something Rain, Jude Rogers talks to Stuart Staples and David Boulter about their present and reflect on the past

Shangaan Shake (Various Artists)

Shangaan Shake

L.A. Existential: Rampart Reviewed

Co-scripted by James Ellroy, the second film from writer/director Oren Moverman (Oscar-nominated for 2009's The Messenger) stars Woody Harrelson and a heavyweight supporting cast in a fictional character study set amid the actual corruption of the late '90s LAPD. Our Walthamstow crime correspondent Steve Jelbert investigates

Black Rain

Now I’m Just A Number: Soundtracks 1994-95

The French Outer Reaches: Christophe Demarthe & Philippe Petit

From the techno of Christophe Demarthe to Cosey Fanni Tutti collaborator Philippe Petit, this month David McKenna takes Rockfort around the Gallic margins

Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed

To celebrate this week's Blu-ray release (in the UK at least) of Repo Man, director Alex Cox reflects on the 1984 cult classic, subsequent battles with Hollywood and Hunter S. Thompson, and why it's fine to pirate his work. Interview by our Boston scribe Craig Terlino

Grimes

Visions

Lambchop

Mr. M

Why Adele Is The Pop Star We Need, By Jude Rogers

Adele is a one woman cash vache! Get off her back losers, says Jude Rogers

A Room Full Of Horns And Nowhere To Sit Down: February Columnus Metallicus

Captain! He rises! Toby Cook puts down the plastic skull bong and picks up his notebook. Horns up shitbirds!

Tindersticks

The Something Rain