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Glamorous Glue: Horse Meat Disco – An Appreciation

From the birth of the term ‘discothèque’ in occupied Paris to the rebirth of forgotten strains of disco in our own decade, disco has never run out of steam. We go to Horse Meat Disco's excellent mix album for a draught of the pure stuff

Oneida And Teeth Of The Sea: Psych In The Head

John Doran and Luke Turner are feeling very psych and ill today as they experience the celestial headfuck of TOTS and Oneida live. Pictures: Maria Jefferis _www.shot2bits.net_

Godflesh

Slavestate, Pure, Cold World reissues

Idlewild

Post Electric Blues

Jello Biafra Of The Dead Kennedys Interview

Biafra’s back – and this time he’s packing a ‘real’ band. The former Dead Kennedys frontman is re-energised by fronting a new group, The Guantanamo School Of Medicine, who tour the UK in September 2009. Alex Ogg chews the fat with him

Six Organs Of Admittance

Luminous Night

Barbarism After Auschwitz: Inglourious Basterds Reviewed

Tarantino's Nazi opus plays fast and loose with sensitive subject matter but it's also one of the most interesting WWII epics in a year that's full of them. David Moats investigates

Getting To Grips With Roky Erickson: A Dr Rock Interview

All hail the mighty return of Dr Rock! And Roky Erikson! That's a whole lot of rock

The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses (reissue)

Neil Kulkarni doesn't sit on the fence when it comes to the reissue of the Stone Roses' first LP...

Kiss’ New Album Sonic Boom Reviewed Track-By-Track

The Quietus' Hibernian salmon wrangler Mark Eglinton gets stuck into _Sonic Boom_, the first Kiss album in over a decade

Pissed Jeans

King Of Jeans

Les Paul Obituary: A Sonic Pioneer Beyond The Guitar

He might be best known for his six string creations, but Les Paul was responsible for many more musical technologies. John Tatlock investigates

Yob

The Great Cessation

Soul Metal Outfit Invasion On The Power Of Motown, Metallica And Magic

Mountain bagging Hibernian man of rock Mark Eglinton speaks to Marek Steven of lava hot soul metal trio Invasion

Jay Reatard

Watch Me Fall

Blue Roses’ Laura Groves On Her Yorkshire Hometown Of Shipley

Blue Roses' music is imbued with the atmosphere of the Yorkshire where she grew up. Here, she writes about her home of Shipley

Shit And Shine

229-2299 Girls Against Shit!

U2 Live Under A Slate Grey Claw: Chris Roberts Reports From Wembley

Giant contraption fails to divert attention away from the fact that Irish megastars aren't quite as good as they used to be. Gallery of band close-ups, Jim Dyson

Oneida’s Kid Millions: Why Drumming With Boredoms Is “A Kick In The Ass”

With Oneida on the eve of their UK tour, Kid Millions called to tell us about playing with the Boredoms on a ship off Japan during the solar eclipse

The XX

XX

a-ha Video Interview: Leonard Cohen, Morrissey, Moisturiser & Drugs

Knowing me, Akira the Don, ah ha. knowing you a-ha. Ah HA!

Beating Around The Bush: The Dubya Era In Films

As GI Joe: The Rise Of The Cobra - the last of the Bush-era films hit our screens - The Quietus celebrates this odd cinematic era. By David Moats and Josh Saco

Panzer Faustus: That Fucking Tank Interviewed

Leeds duo TFT have followed up their debut (Day Of Death By Bono Adrenalin Shot) with a storming sophomore (Tankology). Stephen Eddie investigates

Lovvers

OCD Go Go Go Girls

Simian Mobile Disco

Temporary Pleasure

Megadeth’s New Album Endgame Appraised Track-By-Track

Mountain-conquering man of metal Mark Eglinton gets stuck into Megadeth's new album _Endgame_ and finds a surprising return to form from Dave Mustaine & co

On The Hour: Parting The Beef Curtains Of News

Recently Al Denney spoke to Armando Iannucci, Stewart Lee, David Quantick and the much missed Swells about Radio 4's comedic high watermark, _On The Hour_

Get The Gays And Hairdressers – A History Of Eric’s, Liverpool

Jaki Florek and Paul Whelan's _Liverpool Eric's: All The Best Clubs Are Downstairs, Everybody Knows That . . ._ reviewed

The Big Pink: Naked Ambition

Cutting Pink With Scissors, Kissing The Pink, The Australian Pink Floyd - will The Big Pink be able to reach the dizzy heights scaled by their fuchsia coloured cousins? Ben Hewitt investigates

Japandroids

Post Nothing

Peter Hook Interview: Freebass, New Order and Joy Division Cruet Sets

Ben Hewitt talks to the Northern bass monkey about his involvement in getting some of the North's most historic music sites blue plaques

Radiohead Versus The Release Schedule

If illegal downloading is killing music, asks Wyndham Wallace, why don’t record labels just let us buy it earlier?