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The Stooges, Two Guitarists And Raw Power Live By John Robb

John Robb welcomes the return of James Williamson to the Stooges fold to play Raw Power as an ATP Don't Look Back gig

Flora, Fauna And Fractals: Green Man Review And Gallery

Le Homme Du Belgium/America Charles Ubaghs descends on idyllic Welsh festival Le Homme Vert and likes what he sees. All pictures courtesy of Shot2bits.net

Robin Guthrie

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Bro’ Interrupted: Judd Apatow Talks And Funny People Reviewed

Dark side of the goon revealed in the latest Apatow-brand of dudecom bromance, examining the aftermath of a stand-up’s near-death experience and the realisation that life is what you’ve got left. Oli Simpson is in neologistic bro-verload

Slayer Interview: Tom Araya Unplugged? Not Just Yet

Le Homme Du Hibernia Mark Eglinton finally meets up with Tom Araya to apologise for pretending to like Dokken over Slayer. Sacre bleu!

La Route Du Rock: My Bloody Valentine And The Jolie Laide Festival

L'Homme Du Hackney, Jeremy Allen, recently took the ferry to France and the Route Du Rock festival. MBV pictures, Maria Jefferis/shot2bits.net

Vladislav Delay: Going Back To His (Jazz) Roots

Finnish house music polymath Sasu Ripatti returns under his abstract future jazz guise of Vladislav Delay

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The Pattern Prism

The Books I’ve Loved: Christiana Spens

Novelist Christiana Spens talks to The Quietus about her favorite yarns

Jim O’Rourke

The Visitor

Mr Agreeable: Watching Oasis Slide Away Into The Oomska

Over his usual high-end comestibles, Mr Agreeable ponders the departure of Noel Gallagher from Oasis

World Domination Enterprises Interview: It’s Play Time Again

“We were the most exciting band in the world, but the world never quite realised it,” claims mainman Keith Dobson of the gargantuan World Domination Enterprises. With their 1988 debut reissued at last, Wyndham Wallace tells his story and wonders if the time is finally right for them to do big business

Oasis Split: What Next For Noel Gallagher?

What next for Britpop's most conspicuous under-achiever asks John Tatlock. Maybe Amorphous Androgynous point the way forward

Brendan Benson

My Old Familiar Friend

Age Of Chance Interview: Get To Grips With The Lycra Clad Revolutionaries

Mark Emsley recalls how a chance encounter with AOC via the pages of NME gave him a "boot up the proverbial arse" and catches up with Geoff Taylor from the band

Mos Def

The Ecstatic

The XX: Between Les Paul’s Pick Up And The Akai MPC2000

It is quite timely that The XX's debut came out during the same month that Les Paul died. They are the perfect band for a post Paul age, says John Doran

The Fiery Furnaces

I'm Going Away

Sonic Router 005 – A Dubstep Column For August

Summer may be late in arriving but there's always more than enough bass to go round. Oli Marlow serves up this month's Sonic Router

The Ghost Of A Thousand: A Grand Racket

Rookie mistakes, Hardcore violence and day-to-day admin. Tom Lacey guides Toby Cook through the rise and rise of The Ghost Of A Thousand.

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Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know

Mirror’s Image: Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces Review

Almodovar's latest is a slick and seductive film about filmmaking. Robert Barry wonders if this latest Penelope Cruz vehicle sees the legendary director building on past greatness or merely cannibalising his own work.

Reading & Leeds Preview: Radiohead Triumph In Prague

Wyndham Wallace reports from Radiohead's show outside the Výstaviště Exhibition Centre in Prague as the band gear up for their Reading and Leeds Festival headline slots

Soulsavers

Broken

John Leckie On That Stone Roses Album & The Trouble With Kids These Days

Stone Roses and Radiohead producer John Leckie On Making That Album, nuclear apocalypse-proof mixing desks, and why the ease of mySpace music distribution might not be a good thing

Reading & Leeds Preview: The XX And The Sound Of Now

Hazel Sheffield talks to The XX about turning down Diplo, their debut album, and their accidentally classic sound

The Cave Singers

Welcome Joy

Calvin Harris

Ready For The Weekend

Tear Gas And Hip Hop: A Different View Of The Stone Roses’ Debut

John Tatlock responds to Neil Kulkarni's review of The Stone Roses' debut album, and finds there's more to the band than often meets the eye

Arctic Monkeys

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Tinariwen: Behind The Guns And Guitars

Ben Hewitt talks to rebel rock guitarist Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni

Richmond Fontaine

We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River