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THE FIERY FURNACES Remember Whoa, is this really what this band sounds like? I’d just assumed it was your garden variety, Pitchfork-approved yoghurt music for young adult t-shirt wearers

Photos by Chris Shonting and styling by Anette Lamothe-Ramos.

SUMMER FUN

Brian Ulrich has been traveling America, taking photos at thrift stores for a few years now. We chose a few of them but mostly focused on girls because we like them and we also like that Screeching Weasel song.

A while ago we started doing monthly issue launch parties at the Old Blue Last. The whole concept should have been pretty elementary: have a party, a bunch of people drink and the bands covered in the magazine that month come down and play. No big deal...

CRIME—A SERIES OF EXTRAORDINARY INTERVIEWS EXPOSING THE WORLD OF CRIME—REAL AND IMAGINED As you’d expect of a book designed by the guys who made those Russian

You know what? No letters page this month. You know why? Because we aren't receiving enough real letters.

What happened to Capricorns? Out of that slew of metallic instrumental groups of the last five years they were easily the most interesting, probably by virtue of the fact they played songs that had more than one riff and tempo and didn't have to have...

You want to know what the best part about a dead baby is? No dirty diapers. No diapers at all really. No money spent on formula. No painting bedrooms pink or blue.

Sorry, jaded white guy who professes to like rap music but can't remember the other guy's name out of Mobb Deep, but we love Soulja Boy. Since when did rap music being fun and goofy again become a bad thing? Ah yes, since out-of-touch old men like Ice...

Photos by Alex Sturrock, Stylist: Kylie Griffiths

Anyone still waiting for the revolution in sound and vision promised by the Horrors a couple of years ago can probably go home now. Southend's finest have left their mark, though, because today a whole bunch of bands are happily thriving below the...