Plan B
Issue 36

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ROOTS MANUVA
When Rodney Smith picks up a microphone, he becomes Roots Manuva, bashment superhero spitting wonky science and remaking UK hip–hop in his own image. Back with 'Buff Nuff', a rowdy link–up with Sheffield dancehall wunderkind Toddla T, and new album Slime And Reason, our Rodders talks slippery logic and the merits of dancing with your socks off.

LINDSTRØM
Lindstrøm's space disco odysseys draw vapour trails between dreamscapes and the dancefloor

SUB POP IS 20…
…and Everett True is 48. Nineteen years on from his first Seattle jolly on the Sub Pop account, Plan B's publisher–at–large jets back to the Pacific Northwest to meet some old friends, exorcise some ghosts and find out what happened after grunge left town. How did we get here? Where are we going? And did the Postal Service really sell that many records?

ABE VIGODA
With new album Skeleton, punk tropicalistas Abe Vigoda place fifth–world fever dreams and Los Angeles DIY on the dissecting table, cataloguing the anatomy of a new hybrid music

PLUS: Wet Dog, Jaguar Love, Luciano, No Lay, Vile Imbiciles, Fiery Furnaces, Annie, Grouper, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Lucky Dragons, Kasai All Stars, Darren Hayman

LIVE: Deerhunter, Supersonic Festival, Stereolab, Grace Jones, Sonar Festival

ALBUMS: Plush, Conor Oberst, G-Unit, Nas, RZA as Bobby Digital, Harvey Milk, Black Kids, Nurse With Wound, She And Him, Indian Jewelry, Pnytail, Oneida, Racebannon, Dino Felipe, Sigur Ros, The Week That Was, Cloudland Canyon, Coffins, Prurient

REISSUES: Fela Ransome–Kuti, Ragga Twins, Darkthrone, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, John Baker, My Bloody Valentine

MEDIA: Encounters At The End Of The World, Of Time And The City, Somers Town, Savage Messiah, Akashic Books