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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.

múm

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

Humbug

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

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