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Sonic Router 015: Driving Drum Beats With Iceland’s Hypno

Our man Oli Marlow interviews Kári Guðmundsson, aka Hypno, for this month's Sonic Router

Robert Plant

Band Of Joy

The Jim Jones Revue

Burning Your House Down

An Extract From Dr Johnson’s Dictionary Wherein He Defines Hip Hop

Noted Twitterer @DrSamuelJohnson recently published his first new dictionary in 250 years. To celebrate this remarkable feat, we today present the section where he passes definition upon the genre of hip hop

Classified X: Race & Kings Of Leon’s ‘Radioactive’ Video

"Woah-ho! This cross is on fire" Kings Of Leon's new video for 'Radioactive' flirts with dangerous aspects of racial stereotyping, argues John Tatlock

What’s Wrong With Being Sexy? Nick Cave and Jim Sclavunos of Grinderman Interviewed

Big Jim and Old Nick talk to John Doran about JFK’s spine, Steve McQueen’s cock and why women love Grinderman

Robyn

Body Talk Pt 2

The Dome Of Hercules: Carlton Melton Interviewed

Barnaby Smith talks to Rich Millman - guitarist with Calrton Melton - about San Francisco, improvisation and juggling fatherhood with making music

Peter Broderick

How They Are

The Curious Case Of Edgar Allan Poe & The Rapper Eminem

They might by separated by craft, years and the grave but Eminem and Edgar Allan Poe have more in common than you might think, argues Lewis G. Parker

In The Batcave With Mr & Mrs Fiend: Alien Sex Fiend On Goth & Marriage

Nix Lowrey talks to Nik and Christine Wade, aka Mr and Mrs Fiend, about the history of Alien Sex Fiend and their new album _Death Trip_

Rough Trade Book Extract: From Shop To The Egos Of The Smiths

An extract from _Document and Eyewitness - An Intimate History of Rough Trade_, the new tome by Neil Taylor

Oval

Zola Jesus

Stridulum II

Beyond The Mirror: Mark Stewart Of The Pop Group Interviewed

Mark Stewart, dub revolutionary and motor mouth tells John Doran how The Pop Group reformation is going to clash together Om, Sleep, DJ Assault, Joker and Appleblim, smash the mirror and put them up on the big screen...

Camus, Coke & Hookers: Meursault Interviewed

Thomas A. Ward talks to Meursault's Neil Pennycook about recording in living rooms, major labels and the exaggerated demise of the local music scene

Dead Confederate

Sugar

The Sword

Warp Riders

A Game Of Chess: Akira The Don Takes On Gonzales & Talks Ivory Tower

Fennesz Daniell Buck

Knoxville

Brandon Flowers

Flamingo

Klaxons

Surfing The Void

Out Of My Cave: Wyndham Wallace On Ut Av Vår Hule Festival In Norway

Wyndham Wallace stumbles upon a lovely Norwegian festival. Join him as takes in the sights and sounds of Ut Av Vår Hule

Smut At The Bus Stop & Career Revivals: The Vaselines Interviewed

Ash Dosanjh talks to Eugene Kelly about _Sex With An X_, the first album from Scottish cult heroes The Vaselines in 20 years. Plus: bus stop romances, smutty songs and Kurt Cobain

Phantom

Smoke And Mirrors

Janelle Monáe: A New Pioneer Of Afrofuturism

Against a pop climate beset by fraudulent marketing plans on two shiny legs, John Calvert argues that Janelle Monáe brandishes the acetylene torch for radical Afrofuturism

Little Pips Starting To Grow: Al Tourettes Interviewed

Angus Finlayson talks to the jack of all trades - electro, dubstep and techno - about his moniker, musical ambitions and growing up in Norfolk

The Rockin’ Vicar: Rev Mann Speaks About Stryper, Slayer And Satan

Son of metal Joel McIver meets Lady Of The Cloth Rachel Mann who has decreed: listen to metal! Amen, say we... Photographs of Rev. Mann by KatyBPhotography.co.uk

Women

Public Strain

Awaiting The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar: Susan Alcorn Interviewed

Spencer Grady talks to pioneering composer and free improviser Susan Alcorn about Muddy Waters, Messiaen and the art of “deep listening”. Photo by Andy Newcombe

The Last Grouch On The Left: Josh Saco On The End Of FrightFest

Our tattoed man of horror throws himself into another weekend of guts and gore at the Film4 FrightFest

Chilly Gonzales

Ivory Tower