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What’s All The Fuss About? Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary Reviewed

_Involuntary_ may be disjointed, says Eftihia Stefanidi, but it will haunt you long after it's finished

No Chips Alone: The Soft Boys Saga By Robyn Hitchcock

The Soft Boys will reissue their cult albums _A Can Of Bees_ and _Underwater Moonlight_ on November 15 on Yep Roc. Here, Robyn Hitchcock pens us some words on the band's formation and demise...

Small Black

New Chain

Wild Nothing

Golden Haze

Swans

My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

Supersonic 2010 In Review: Digbeth For Victory With Swans And Godflesh

Last weekend Toby Cook, Roby Haynes, James Holloway, Matt Evans, Luke Turner and John Doran lolloped over to Birmingham to round up the best of the mayhem from Supersonic. All pictures thanks to Maria Jefferis/Stu Green/Shot2Bits.net

Laetitia Sadier

The Trip

Praise Be! It’s A Charlotte Church Interview

Luke Turner meets up with Charlotte Church to talk about Green Man, Tatu death threats, covering Iron & Wine and going it alone in love and music

Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards

Shakes

Wiley Does It: Ruling The Internet & Bringing In Gold

Tom Howard chats to Wiley about ruling the internet, mediating between Liam and Noel Gallagher, and music industry woes

Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere: A Rare Interview With The Heads

Jimmy Martin talks to reclusive Bristolian psychedelic warriors The Heads about being the UK's best cult rock group. Essential moral and technical guidance from their "whipping boy, dogsbody and chief enthusiast" Mr Simon Keeler

“A Godzilla Version Of Being A Woman”: All About Evil With Peaches Christ

Simon Jablonski talks to director, writer, actress and drag-queen Peaches Christ about horror, homage, Julia Roberts and Freddy Krueger

I Like Trains

He Who Saw The Deep

Moulettes

Moulettes

Let The Red Rag Fly: In Defence Of Simply Red’s Picture Book

The Quietus battens down the hatches and prepares for a storm as Wyndham Wallace risks all to defend Simply Red’s debut album, _Picture Book_, on its 25th anniversary…

Blonde Redhead

Penny Sparkle

The End Of History: Taking The Plunge With I Like Trains

With their history songs of old consigned to dusty shelves in favour of songs about humanity disappearing beneath the waves in a watery apocalypse, Luke Turner speaks to I Like Trains before their concert at The Deep in Hull

Anika On Why Bristol’s Stokes Croft Offers A Vision Of A Better Future

Invada Records artist Anika is also a political journalist who divides her time between Berlin and Bristol. Here she writes about how community action in Bristol gives the lie to ideas of an apathetic Britain

John Foxx

DNA

Good Music For A Hangover: Twin Sister Interviewed

Emily Bick talks to Twin Sister's guitarist Eric Cardona about tape decks, Long Island and mean dance moves

End Of Play 2010: A Hip-Hop State Of The Art Report

Neil Kulkarni rages about mainstream hip-hop and cowardly criticism in his end-of-year report, as well as telling you what you should be listening to

Dodge The Bullets: An Interview With Killing Joke

"This whimpering little nation - what’s become of us?" An old school style encounter with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman, as Alex Ogg feels the fury of the jester of the apocalypse. Live photo by Alex Ogg

Confessions Of A Blagger: Carl Barat’s Threepenny Memoir Reviewed

Carl Barat's new tome doesn't shrink away from embracing ugly self-truth - and according to Ben Myers, is subsequently far worthier of praise than the the tortured scribblings of Pete Doherty

Squarepusher Presents: Shobaleader One

d’Demonstrator

“She Was A Force Of Nature”: Zoe Street Howe’s Tribute To Ari Up Of The Slits

Zoe Street Howe, author of _Typical Girls? The Story Of The Slits_, explains why the fantastic Ari Up packed more living into 48 years than most people would do in a 100

Marnie Stern

Marnie Stern

Syriana

The Road To Damascus

“An Amazing Drug Like Quietus”: Jack Dangers Of Meat Beat Manifesto Interviewed

Nix Lowrey talks to Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto about dub, disaffection and railways

Supersonic 2010: In Gnod We Trust

Salford’s psych metal renegades break radio silence, just before their show at this weekend's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham. Simon Catling has his third eye cleansed

Prepare For The Worst: Facing The Apocalypse With The Body

The Body's And All The Waters Of The Earth Shall Turn To Blood an outrock highlight of 2010. Here they tell Luke Turner that their guns were bought for hunting men as much as critters

All Of This And Nothing: The Psychedelic Furs On Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs return to the UK in late October to play their second album, _Talk Talk Talk_, in its entirety. Alex Ogg spoke to founding brothers Tim (bass) and Richard (vocals) Butler.

Belle & Sebastian

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