Henry Rollins is 60 on Saturday. Given how he has dedicated himself to becoming hardcore punk's most prominent renaissance man, it's become easier to forget about the music that made him. Andrew Holter chooses ten points of entry to his large and forbidding back catalogue
Julian Marszalek spoke with colleagues and fans of the pioneering musician Rowland S Howard, including Mick Harvey, Lydia Lunch, Harry Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Jonnine Standish, Daniel Miller and Henry Rollins, in order to get to grips with his work
Amid a whirlwind of drug use, chaotic live shows and within-band animosity, The Birthday Party juddered to a halt in 1983. Daniel Dylan Wray traces the story of the band's messy dissolution, and of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' phoenix-like emergence the following year with From Her To Eternity. Interviews with Mick Harvey, Flood, Jim Thirlwell, Barry Adamson, Nick Launey, Chris Bohn, Henry Rollins, Jessamy Calkin and Hugo Race
As Paul McCartney reissues McCartney II, Stephen Dalton asks him about the creation of his most forward-thinking record, Delia Derbyshire, potentially collaborating with Gorillaz... and suggests that Macca's next LP should be death metal
Not Not Fun/Weird World signed duo Peaking Lights released one of the most talked-about underground albums of last year in their dubby pop record 936. Huw Nesbitt speaks to them about the origins of the band, numerology and the internet