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As Blur Hit Hyde Park, We Assess The Reunion Deluge

Julian Marszalek suggests that the current crop of reunions will only be justified if the artists knuckle down and write some new material

La Roux

La Roux

Jazz, Sad Songs, Puke And Rehab: Fences Interviewed

Tom Milway speaks to Fences' Chris Mansfield about Seattle, his craft, and getting dry

Here We Go Magic

Here We Go Magic

The Strange Dreams Of Paul White

The Strange Dreams of Paul White

The Quietus’ Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The (Half) Year: 2009

The months slide away like greased ferrets down a drainpipe. It's halfway through '09 already and here are The Quietus' favourite albums so far

The Author Speaks: Zoë Street Howe on Writing The Slits’ Story

On the eve of the release of her biography, _Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits_, writer Zoë Street Howe examines her own motivations for writing the book, on how she helped reunite previously disenfranchised members, and why the group's legacy is still important today.

DJ Hell Interviewed

For the first in a new series of articles exploring the ongoing experiments in modern German music we talk to DJ Hell about his fine new album Teufelswerk.

Jackie-O Motherfucker On Dealing In Used Goods

Tom Greenwood takes us through a lifetime of buying and selling the things that the everyday folk left behind

Tortoise

Beacons Of Ancestorship

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

Cats On Fire

Our Temperance Movement

The Warlocks

The Mirror Explodes

Swells: A Tribute

By David Stubbs, Andrew Mueller, John Robb, Sarah Bee, Ben Marshall, Alex Burrows, Dan Lane and Terry Staunton

Space Rock The Final Frontier: Sir Patrick Moore On Pop

From 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' to 'Supermassive Black Hole' Joel McIver played Sir Patrick - the greatest living Englishman with a monocle - interplanetary rock and pop and asked him about the science behind the songs

Deerhunter

Rainwater Cassette Exchange

We Were Promised Jetpacks

These Four Walls

White Denim

Fits

From The Archives: The Boy Who Would Fly, Michael Jackson In 1983

To mark his recent death, we have reproduced Barney Hoskyns' 1983 NME piece on the King of Pop

Michael Jackson Is A Piece Of The Continent Broken Away Says Emily Bick

Marilyn Manson Interviewed: The Dope Show

In an extract from his lengthy interview with Marilyn Manson for Stool Pigeon, John Doran berates the god of fuck's inability to get his shit together

Emperor Machine: Dark Room Dynasties And Roman Stoned

Willie Isz

Georgiavania

Book Review: The Last Mad Surge of Youth by Mark Hodkinson

Lemonheads

Varshons

BrokeNCYDE: The Decline Of Western Civilization Part Three?

We sent the pitbull Mark Eglinton to take BrokeNCYDE to task on a recent UK tour; he came back wearing a crunkcore T-shirt

Dinosaur Jr

Farm

Cult Director of Hardware Richard Stanley Interviewed

With real soldier droids in Iraq and shit telly everywhere, _2000AD_ spin-off film _Hardware_ is as relevant as ever. John Paul talks to cult director Richard Stanley about his career and his worries for the future.

Jack Penate

Everything Is New

Sonic Youth Interviewed: A Rude Awakening

Luke Turner feels the pall in the mall as he accompanies a pre-boogie woogie jam Sonic Youth on a shopping trip. Portraits: Mr Dave Ma

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

30 Musical Masterpieces

Ghoul Britannia: A New Wave of Home Grown Horror

Josh Saco discusses the new wave of British Horror as the latest gem, _The Disappeared_, is screened at the ICA tonight with a director Q&A