1: Baker’s Dozen – Geddy Lee of Rush
The Rush bassist and singer tells Mick Middles about his favourite albums of all time.
2: Black Sky Thinking – Jeremy Hunt
Luke Turner’s account of working for the Culture Secretary and insight into exactly what our nation’s rulers are like made the Telegraph, Mail On Sunday and Independent.
3: Three Songs No Flash – Sunn 0)))
Angus Finlayson on the striking parallels with the physically overwhelming rituals of dance music and sound system culture, as encountered at their Koko gig.
4: Mr Agreeable
The sour-faced old sot is back! Here is is, his piss the vinegar on Morrissey’s chips.
5: Black Sky Thinking – The Significance Of The Stone Roses Reunion
Those seeing the recent Roses reunion as either uplifting nostalgia or lad rock showing its true capitalist colours
are missing the whole picture, says Alex Niven.
6: Rock’s Backpages – Paul Morley on Radiohead
Fifteen years after the release of Radiohead’s phenomenal OK Computer, we visit the Rock’s Backpages archive for Paul Morley’s Uncut magazine review.
7: Can – The Lost Tapes review
"These are the moments where what Can ‘lost’ in a cupboard sounds most beautifully like what most of us lost when we learned to speak." Taylor Parkes examines the wonderful Can
Lost Tapes.
8: Quietus albums of the year, 2011
With nearly half of 2012 done, you were still keen to see what we were loving in 2011.
9: Black Sky Thinking – Martin Amis, Geezer-Prat, & His Unfortunate Clichés Of Britishness
With the release of cynical new novel Lionel Asbo: State Of England, argues Alex Niven, Martin Amis continues the patronising run of form that helped install the pernicious and cliché-ridden notion of ‘Cool Britannia’ and ultimately Boris and Dave’s Big Society.
10: A Quietus Interview – Everything But The Girl
Ian Wade sits down with Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt to discuss the new Everything But The Girl reissues, and why they don’t need to do a reunion.
11: Black Sky Thinking – Delia Derbyshire To Deadmau5 In 39 Steps? Why EMI Are Wrong
Want a vision of electronic music’s future? Imagine crap trance riffs and recycled one note basslines stomping on a human face, for ever.
12: Baker’s Dozen – Howie Gelb
In a neat twist on our 13 favourite albums feature, Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb talks Stewart Smith through his formative records from his teenage years in Pennsylvania.
13: Liars – WIXIW review
Luke Turner on the electronic direction taken by one of our favourite groups on their sixth album.
