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Jay-Z Sample Copyright Trial

Rapper accused of violating copyright laws alongside producer Timbaland on 1999 hit

Supersonic 2012: A Radical Spirit – Jarboe Interviewed

Ahead of her performance at this month's Supersonic festival Ned Raggett talks to Jarboe about Swans, Phil Anselmo and how she's more radical now than ever before. Main picture by Cedric Victor

Life After Brainiac: John Schmersal Of Vertical Scratchers Interviewed

Master Of The Dough, Stevie Chick talks to John Schmersal of Brainiac and Enon about keeping busy with Caribou, Crooks On Tape and Vertical Scratchers

Black Sabbath Detail Limited Edition Vinyl Boxset

Following the band's last run of gigs, a new boxset will collect their eight Ozzy Osbourne-fronted albums

Whirled Around: An Oral History Of Levitation

20 years ago, on the eve of their debut album's release, Levitation looked like they'd explode. Instead, a year later, they imploded. Wyndham Wallace invites those involved to share their cautionary tale…

Of Dorks & Geeks: A Weird Al Yankovic Interview

As he makes his first visit to Europe, Emily Bick talks to Weird Al Yankovic about YouTube, his parodies, keeping it clean, the crucial difference between geeks and dorks and why you "gotta do it for the Shat"

RIP Leonard Cohen

Musician, poet and writer passes at age of 82

We’re Only Gonna Die: Bad Religion And The End Of The World

Who better to spend the 21/12/12 Mayan Apocalypse with than Bad Religion frontman and evolutionary biologist Dr. Greg Graffin, PhD? Alex Burrows takes notes at the end of days

Blurred Lines: An Interview With Lou Doillon

Lou Doillon's debut album of enigmatic folk pop Places has been a surprise hit in her native France. In advance of a London show at Queen Elizabeth Hall this week, she speaks with Jeremy Allen about the pressures of growing up in a family of famous musicians

Something Of Substance: An Interview With Billy Nomates

As she releases the first track 'Heels' - which you can listen to below - from a new EP, Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, speaks to Patrick Clarke about class barriers, the fragility of DIY musicianship, and the government's 'sinister' disregard for an industry on the edge of collapse

The Cure’s Robert Smith To Curate Meltdown

The festival takes place at London's Southbank Centre

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