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  Psychic Dancehall (No 1,182)

  10 Jan 2012:

  Chuck Rowell and Hollie Cook's synth-pop noir is inspired by San Diego's seedy side – with a dollop of David Lynch

• New music: Xiu Xiu – Hi

  10 Jan 2012:

  Michael Cragg: Electronic music miserablist Jamie Stewart returns with one of the happiest sad songs in recent memory

• Old music: Daddy Cool – Eagle Rock

  10 Jan 2012:

  Russell Cunningham: When Australians went in search of a new national anthem in the 70s, they could have done worse than this

• Radiohead: 'A sort of skiffle-Pink Floyd who sound like Queen. Yeah, that's us' – a classic interview from the vaults

  10 Jan 2012: Radiohead have just been announced as one of the headliners at this year's Coachella festival in California. Here, in our latest visit to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage rock journalism – Clare Kleinedler describes meeting the band when they were on the cusp of fame in May 1996

• Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi diagnosed with cancer

  10 Jan 2012: Guitarist reveals he has early stage lymphoma but intends to proceed with band's long-awaited comeback

• Coachella 2012: Radiohead, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg to headline

  10 Jan 2012: Other acts confirmed for California desert event include Pulp, Florence + the Machine and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

• Is Rihanna's crotch-grabbing really so gross?

  10 Jan 2012:

  Nell Frizzell: So what if the singer simulates masturbation in her new video, You Da One? The boys in pop have been doing this for years

• Elton John to write book about Aids

  10 Jan 2012: Love Is the Cure, due in July, will include reminiscences about Freddie Mercury and teenage activist Ryan White

• Money (No 1,181)

  9 Jan 2012:

  This group of young ideologues seem to relish their own discontent. Meet the Mancunian Manics …

• From the archive, 10 January 1965: The beginnings of 'chart art'

  9 Jan 2012:

  Originally published in the Observer on 10 January 1965: George Melly joins the paper as its first pop music critic and here surveys his subject's social and cultural worth

• Old music: Simple Minds – New Gold Dream

  9 Jan 2012:

  Before their pursuit of world domination turned them rubbish, Simple Minds were capable of transcendent beauty – as this 1982 track attests

• Original Sugababes lineup not reuniting, says Mutya Buena

  9 Jan 2012: Singer dismisses reports that she is working on new material with Sugababes founding members

• A song about death, depression and maggots? Just the thing for my wedding

  8 Jan 2012: Sam Leith: Being the kind of person more inclined to pick songs for my funeral, coming up with one for my wedding is proving tricky

• Cymbals Eat Guitars/Milagres – review

  

  8 Jan 2012:

  Cymbals Eat Guitar hovered on the edge of pretentiousness, but support act Milagres could be something special, writes Dave Simpson

• Bob Weston obituary

  8 Jan 2012: Lead guitarist with Fleetwood Mac in the early 1970s

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