Forget Blur v. Oasis, the True Heart of Britpop was the Satanic Plummet of Dog Man Star

Ahead of a 30th anniversary reissue, Darran Anderson casts a caustic eye over feverish cash-driven nostalgia for the big-hitters of 1994, reserving praise for Suede, who, despite the odds being stacked against them, got it exactly right with their second album

LIVE REPORT: Fat White Family

In a squalid Parisian venue, Jeremy Allen finds little instances of everyone in the Fat Whites.

Nick Cave Subject Of New Graphic Novel

Nick Cave will feature as the subject of a new graphic novel described as "a chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World"

Best Served Cold: Lady Snowblood Revisited

Stephen Martin enjoys Toshiya Fujita's female revenge saga, homaged by Quentin Tarantino and recently given a deluxe Blu-ray release

Willie Isz

Georgiavania

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain Hits For January

This month, we celebrate the nefarious goings-on of Paper Dollhouse, the wobbly non-linear Chow Mwng and the throbbing drone of NoCorner

Maarja Nuut

Une Meeles

Rockfort! French Music For June Reviewed By David McKenna

Exploring the French fringes, David McKenna looks at Gallic sprechgesang, the return of an experimental folk legend, new UK jazz from a Frenchman and absurdist chanson. Home page portrait: Arlt by Marie Losier

Billy Corgan Rumbles Swine Flu Conspiracy

It's a man made virus, according to Billy...

Cruel Intentions: Art & Iconoclasm From Manet To The Chapman Brothers

A gallery show in Mayfair on the creative potential of defacing other people’s work reveals a century and a half of artists coming together – and falling apart

Bellrays July Tour

Acid Arab

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Acid Arab drop an album of wall-to-wall heaters in the heart of winter, rousing a hibernating Bernie Brooks from his wintry den

Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal

Four decades ago - between the release of Sad Wings Of Destiny and Sin After Sin - Judas Priest were engaged in a revolution of image and sound... one that would cement the heavy metal aesthetic for good

The Art Of Soundtracking: Steven Severin Interviewed

Shunning the rock reunion circuit, Siouxsie And The Banshees co-founder Steven Severin now explores a fertile seam composing film scores. Resuming next week, his current UK tour pairs fresh electronic sounds with Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 classic Vampyr. Ben Graham learns more

Why “Hotly Tipped” Brother Exemplify Perennial Tipster Idiocy

Agnes Ball calls for a violent and immediate end to the media's rekindled bromance with laddy Britpop, incarnated in the execrable Brother

WATCH: Unseen RIDE Live Video

Live video featuring the band playing more than two decades ago is unearthed