Plan B
Issue 24

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MIA - With a new album recorded in Africa, India, Australia and Trinidad, nomadic audiovisual rebel MIA talks about taking politics personally, the art of mixing signals and how it feels to be both a pop star and a `national threat to homeland security´
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Super Furry Animals return to earth with Hey Venus!, a gently conceptual pop pile-up of dogs, dulcimers, bright lights and wide-eyed harmonies. Frontman Gruff Rhys talks about collaborations, costumes and psychedelic Japanese cover art
TALL PONY - Plan B meets Tall Pony, the caustic Cheltenham and Gloucester duo whose `I´m Your Boyfriend Now´ skewered the possessive male psyche and became a Radio One cult favourite
DIRTY PROJECTORS - All aboard the good ship Dirty Projectors for a voyage full of salamanders, cicadas, imaginary language and exotic soul music
MUNICIPAL WASTE - `Wear the man-tits proud!´ Thrash re-animators and renowned party monsters Municipal Waste take time out from booze, boobs and toxic gore to offer Plan B some friendly advice
MARNIE STERN - Electric guitar goddess Marnie Stern works to her own rules, incandescent with furious positivity and spurred on by art, history and friendship. She rocks, and we love her

VOID
Dan Deacon, Das Wanderlust, Wild Beasts, Why I hate Dylanology, In The Mix: Lesbians on Ecstasy, Gui Boratto, Múm, Singles Club, Sa-Ra, Pelican, Why I Love: Party of Helicopters, Remote Viewer: Huddersfield, Tour Diary: Jana Hunter, Playlist: XFM Dublin, Yacht, When We Meet: Santogold, Percee P, Lightspeed Champion, aPAtT, Personal Geography: Prinzhorn Dance School, Guided Tours: Liars, Times New Viking, The Girlish Revenge Of . . . Tenebrous Liar

LIVE
Grinderman, Hadouken! Kimya Dawson, Boris, Oxbow, Kode9, Pinch, SONAR Live Preview

ALBUMS
Animal Collective, Architecture In Helsinki, Beach House, Alog, Caribou, Chrome Hoof, Euros Childs, Talib Kweli, Tunng, Crescent, Voice of the Seven Woods,Antifolk UK, Fabienne Delsol, The Singing Loins, Hair Police, Yaala! Yaala!, Whitehouse, Ultralyd, Richard Hawley, Oxbow, Astral Social Club, Liars, Mordant Music, Deepchord, Dopplereffekt, Ulrich Schnauss

REISSUES
Lou Reed, Shampoo, Blondie Lasse Marhaug, Sonic Youth, Messthetics # 10. Now-Again Re:Sounds

MEDIA
totallyradio - Brighton's underground internet station; IN PRINT - remembering Punk Planet and Tangents, David McKenzie, GG Allin, Taxiderma, Running Stumbled, Bamako

Plus! A free 16 track CD in association with End Of The Road, featuring The Young Republic, Midlake, Jens Lekman, Herman Dune, Danielson, Architecture in Helsinki, Super Furry Animals, Lambchop, Port O'Brien, Howe Gelb, Micah P Hinson, Malcolm Middleton, Charlie Parr, Archie Bronson Outfit, Dan Sartain and Liz Green.