GLASS CANDY AND CHROMATICS
Glass Candy and Chromatics have traded labels, restyled sound and shifted mood to help write the next chapter in the troubled history of dance music in America

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
How hardcore, hip-hop, Riot Grrrrl and noise shaped Troubleman Unlimited and Italians Do It Better founder Mike Simonettl

PORTISHEAD
As Portishead release the long-awaited third chapter in a meandering story of haunted beasts, devastating song and a genre they never meant to invent, Plan B traces the enigmatic Bristol trio's path from there to here, and beyond

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
From the woodlands and farmlands of the Pacific Northwest, Wolves In The Throne Room are re-drawing black metal's dark pentagrams with radical ecology and apocalyptic atmospheres

BENGA
With a debut album and club hit in the bag, hyper-prolific dubstep prodigy Benga keeps moving onward, upward and to the right

THE WAVE PICTURES
New traditionalists The Wave Pictures keep it simple and keep us sweet

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LIVE: Instal Festival, Anni Rossi, Vialka, Safetyword, Shimmy Rivers And And Canal, Hot Chip, Sharon Von Etten, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Yeasayer, The Long Blondes, Merzbow, Vampire Weekend

ALBUMS: Times New Viking, Gossip, Rocket From The Crypt, Ellen Allien, Boredoms, The Black Keys, Blood Red Shoes, The Breeders, Boris Bill Dixon, Neokarma Jooklo Trio, The Sword, Dead Child, Estelle, The Long Blondes, Destroyer, Radar Bors, Last Harbour, Murder By Death, Al Delete's Digital Penetration 2, Excepter, Portishead, Jamie Lidell, MGMT, Bob Mould, DirtBombs, Jack Rose, Tall Firs, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Supergrass, Volcano The Bear, Young Knives, Barry Adamson, Why?, Youthmovies, The Accidental, Lights, Rameses III

REISSUES: R Stevie Moore, Victrola Favourites, Baby Dee, The Microphones