Patsy Cline

Lydongate! Johnny’s Behaviour Rotten? Swells On The ‘Racist’ Ruckus

Forget Morriseygate! Here's Lydongate!

Swells has produced a cut out and keep guide to help you work your way round the tricky fact that John Lydon seems to be a bit of a tit.

Michael Jackson Dies Of Heart Attack At 50

The King Of Pop Is Dead

Sparks

No.1 in Heaven

Sparks classic No.1 In Heaven has just been re-issued. Perfect time to take another look at the Mael Brothers' classic 1979 collaboration with Giorgio Moroder

Mass Effects: On The New Soft Pink Truth Album

Drew Daniel's latest LP as The Soft Pink Truth, Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase, is a stunner that revels in communitas while flirting with house music and ambient tropes, says Bernie Brooks

The First Column: Superstar DJs

Record decks that a brain injured giraffe could use will soon be in the shops. 'Good', says John Doran because it takes him one step closer to having Tom Cruise come in his ears

Cross Channels: Performance And Ritual At Wysing Polyphonic

At Wysing Polyphonic, Augustin Macellari finds a curious mix of memories, expectations, and personal uptightness marring his appreciation of an otherwise bold line-up of cutting-edge performance art

Lily Allen

Sheezus

The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review

Dave Moats recalls trawling through the murky depths of David Lynch's website in search of this coveted collection of films which are finally available on region 2 DVD this week.

Brian Coney On The Moonlandingz’ Interplanetary Class Classics

In The Moonlandingz first full-length offering as a non-fictional outfit, Brian Coney finds a record that refuses to wear only one mask – futurist without revivalism, acerbic but with swagger – and throws off with gusto any accusations of the term side-project

A Supreme Necrotic Audience: Anaal Nathrakh Interviewed

Nihilist German philosophers to the music of the tube tunnel: inside the terrifying sounds of Anaal Nathrakh

HEALTH

DISCO

Cinematic Santas – The Least Convincing And Naughtiest Santas on Film

In the spirit of humbuggery, The Quietus looks at some of the worst excuses for Santa ever to disgrace the silver screen, and provides Top Trumps-style stats on their performance. Whether they're slightly implausible or just plain evil, this bunch is a disgrace to the ruddy uniform.

Micachu & the Shapes: No Pigs Were Harmed In The Making Of This LP

For their latest, Good Sad Happy Bad, experimental pop group Micachu & The Shapes sank a few then confined themselves to a rehearsal space for a stripped-down, marathon recording session; some metal ensued, as they tell DJ Pangburn

The Fall

Imperial Wax Solvent

OMD

Messages - Greatest Hits

Brett Anderson Explains How He Escaped The Rat Race To Find His Wilderness

In a wide-ranging interview, Brett Anderson talks to Luke Turner about new album _Wilderness_, and why it's a close relation to Suede's classic _Dog Man Star_