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A Dime In The Hot Slot: Heaven 17 Interviewed

Later this year Heaven 17 are taking their classic Penthouse And Pavement album out on the road for its 30th birthday. John Doran chats to Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory

Hustling For Fame And Fortune: Dominique Young Unique Interviewed

After meeting Dominique Young Unique, Petra Davis decides that she isn't worried about her one little bit - she has all the tools required for total domination

Queens Of The Stone Age

Rated Rx (reissue)

The Crypts Of 35 Years: Tom Araya On The Anniversary Of Slayer’s Hell Awaits

More influential than _Reign In Blood_? Mark Eglinton talks to Slayer's Tom Araya about the legacy of their brutal and nasty second album _Hell Awaits_. All live photos courtesy of Shot2Bits.net

Morrissey Reveals His Favourite LPs Of All Time

For Friday 13th, Morrissey has scanned in the sleeves of his favourite 13 albums, emailed them to us, and requested that we put them online. Here are the results:

Drum Eyes

Gira Gira

Sam Herlihy Of The Northwestern: The Age Of Austerity

"I know they look like Skeletor's fingers but give 'em some time and they taste like real chicken, not like breast implants and doom". Sam Herlihy brings you a guide to bargain shopping. Photograph by Barney Britton www.photoinsensitive.com

Jaz Coleman’s Guide To Killing Joke’s Absolute Dissent

Killing Joke make an emphatic return this autumn with new album Absolute Dissent. Jaz Coleman guides Rob Haynes through the LP, discussing the apocalypse, geopolitics, population, societal control and why "random acts of kindness" are the only things that matter. Plus an exclusive stream of new track 'Endgame'

The Books

The Way Out

Kung-Fool Fighting: Wu-Tang Clan Wobble In Brixton

With most of the original members present, the stage was set for the Wu to bring the ruckus to Brixton. But, says Dayal Patterson, a lazy and chaotic performance risks making the pioneers a mere nostalgia act.

Locate Your Innerspeaker: Tame Impala Interviewed

Glen McLeod talks to Tame Impala singer Kevin Parker about solitude, nostalgia and being pelted with money

Iron Maiden

The Final Frontier

Louise Wener’s Different for Girls Reviewed By A Fellow Britpop Survivor

"Her real transgression against the unwritten rock-hack rulebook was far more serious: she did not have a penis," says Stephen Dalton, as he reviews _Different For Girls: My True-Life Adventures In Pop_ by Sleeper singer Louise Wener

Why George Formby Was The First Modern Pop Star, By John Robb

Forget Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - it's our homegrown legend, the banjolele-wielding George Formby, who was the world's first King Of Pop

The Soundcarriers

Celeste

Treats On Display: Sleigh Bells Interviewed

Valerie Siebert talks to Alexis Krauss of American noise duo Sleigh Bells about teaching, secret machines and The Ting Tings...

Sonic Router 014: Talking Claptrap With The Average Joe

This month, our man Oli Marlow interviews the shadowy figure known simply as Joe responsible for cuts including 'Claptrap', 'Watermelon Dub' &c

Manic Street Preachers: Soulboys In Hammersmith. Plus Photos From The Band

Manic Street Preachers last week launched new album _Postcards From A Young Man_ at the Hammersmith Working Men's Club. Al Denney explains why they're as relevant now as in his days of teenage fandom. PLUS the Manics have given us a gallery of photographs taken during the day.

Godflesh

Streetcleaner (reissue)

Les Savy Fav

Root For Ruin

Walking On The Moon: The Story Of The Police – An Extract & Q&A

An extract from Chris Campion's _Walking On The Moon: The Untold Story Of The Police And The Rise Of New Wave Rock_ as well as an interview with the author. Photographs courtesy David Arnoff.

The History Of Trojan Records: Laurence Cane-Honeysett Interviewed & Mix

Angus Finlayson chats to Laurence Cane-Honeysett, author of new Trojan tome _Young, Gifted and Black: The Story Of Trojan Records_, about the label's history and influence.

Field Day 2010 In Words & Pictures

The Quietus presents a written and pictoral remembrance of a fantastic Field Day 2010

Smudge

Manilow & Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra (Reissues)

John Moore Is Cheered By Port Eliot & Luke Haines Being Nice

After a spell in the doldrums, our man Moore heads to the West Country for the fruity extravaganza of the Port Eliot Literary Festival, where he plays some songs and Mr Haines does a reading

Gruff Rhys & Tony Da Gatorra

The Terror Of Cosmic Loneliness

K-X-P

K-X-P

The Power Of Propaganda: A Secret Wish 35 Years On…

Celebrating 35 years since its release, Wyndham Wallace confronts the Sturm und Drang of Propaganda’s _A Secret Wish_

Straight Edge & Confusing Pig Heads: Purified In Blood Interviewed

Norway's Purified In Blood talk to Toby Cook about splitting up, getting back together and having people threaten to piss on their graves

The Knife’s Tomorrow, In A Year Live & The Trouble With The Pop Opera

Using the Barbican performance of The Knife's Tomorrow In A Year as a starting point, Hazel Sheffield looks at those who have tried to bring Opera into a contemporary setting. Photography by Lucy Johnston.

Richard Ashcroft

United Nations Of Sound

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Present…

Dark Night Of The Soul