Plan B - Issue 42 February 2009

FEATURES
Telepathe
Pop lost its shine? Jaded by the hollow promises of the avant–garde? Future R&B sorceresses Telepathe just read your mind
The Thing
Operational since 2005, Oslo's Smalltown Superjazzz imprint has blazed a path through jazz orthodoxy, zigzagging between the fiery eruptions of free improv and the raw power of punk rock with exhilarating energy and weightless dexterity. Plan B visits Oslo to meet Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Håker—Flaten, and Paal Nilssen–Love of Superjazzz shock troops The Thing, and gets a lesson in harnessing energy, aesthetic and improvisation as a means to crack the mould
Bat For Lashes
Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, returns from the woods with Two Suns — a new clutch of luminescent, baroque songs inspired by the wonder of constellations, the gravity of attraction, and the waxing and waning of romance
Frida Hyvönen
Frida Hyvönen is a gift for real girls, discarding the ribbons and bows of romantic fantasy and investing the everyday and commonplace with vulnerability, bravery, and magical detail. Sing along, because real life can set you free

THE VOID
Terry Lyn, Les Corps Mince De Françoise, US Girls, Read The Label: Art Goes Pop, Tour Diary: Fight Like Apes, Playlist: Julie Tippex, Black Milk, Why I Hate: 4/4, In The Mix: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Lily Allen, Eskiboy, Man Like Me, Cold Cave, Extra Life, Ice Sea Dead People, Rye Wolves, Chops, Joakim, Shrag, What I Meant To Say: James Yorkston, Personal Geography: Marissa Nadler, The Blessed Revenge of…Grandmaster Flash

LIVE
Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, Tim Exile, Action Beat, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Herman Düne, Meat Puppets, Bang Face
LIVE PREVIEW
Golden Lab, Tunng and Tinariwen

ALBUMS
Morrissey, Beirut, Dan Auerbach, Deadwood, Fennesz, Hauschka, High Quality Recordings, Klaus Nomi, Marissa Nadler, The Drones, Chloé, Faust, These Are Powers, Hudson Mohawke, Rinse 07: Spyro, In The Studio: Phosphorescent, Antony Joseph And The Spasm Band, Charlie Parr, Various Productions featuring Gerry Mitchell
REISSUES
13th Floor Elevators, Bubble Puppy, Roll Your Moneymaker: Early Black Rock'n'Roll 1948–1958, Fly Girls Beware: Revenge Of The Super Female Rappers, Magazine, The Only Ones

MEDIA
The evolution of video game music, Yeti, Totally Wired: Post Punk Interviews And Overviews, Lost In The Supermarket, Smashing Pumpkins’ If All Goes Wrong, Kick That Habit

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