Just good friends

Already alt.rock darlings in the US, Rilo Kiley are making waves here. Fiona Sturges meets the one-time lovers - separately
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Gentleman Sam

Fiona Sturges meets Sam Beam, aka Iron & Wine, a folk artist on the archetypal US grunge label
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The egos have banded

Carl Barât is tempting fate by spawning a supergroup - history has shown, time and again, that such collaborations are fraught with peril and, says Fiona Sturges, shouldn't be allowed
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The Dears, Concorde 2, Brighton

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Alexander Kapranos: The art of being clever

Pop's a fickle business. One minute you're playing to an audience of 10 in a friend's living room, the next you're picking up prizes at the music industry's most glittering office party.
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Stars in her eyes

The singer-songwriter KT Tunstall has taken the long way round to success. It's been worth the wait, she tells Fiona Sturges
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The Chemical Brothers: Packing serious beats

The new album contains their most political moment to date. Even dance music can't ignore the real world, they tell Fiona Sturges
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Velvet Revolver, Hammersmith Apollo, London

Comprising three battle-scarred members of Guns N' Roses and a former Stone Temple Pilot, Velvet Revolver are living relics of the late Eighties - a time when eyeliner, leather trousers and porn-star girlfriends were a prerequisite for any self-respecting rocker.
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The gender gap

The first Band Aid single featured just four women; this year's project represents a considerable improvement on that figure. But, asks Fiona Sturges, have things really changed for women in music in the intervening 20 years?
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Just hear my song

On the eve of her UK tour, kd lang tells Fiona Sturges why she has turned her back on the showbiz world of celebrity
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The artist of noise

Music produced by Trevor Horn provided the soundtrack to the Eighties - and now he's back. Fiona Sturges meets him
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The Megalithic European by Julian Cope

Meet the new teacher in the school of rock (formations). Fiona Sturges meets Julian Cope, standing-stone supremo
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Venus & Mars

Marianne Faithfull's 40-year career has been dogged by tales of sex, drugs and 'that bloody Mars bar'. But, asks Fiona Sturges, could it be that the original wild child has mellowed?
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That's why the lady is a star

Nancy Sinatra was a one-hit wonder with a famous dad, but then Morrissey put her on her feet again, she tells Fiona Sturges
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Joan Rivers: The Rivers edge

After two comebacks, a $38m debt and half a century on stage, Joan has some advice for you, girlfriend: get yourself a sense of humour, some surgery and a rich old pig to pay for it. Fiona Sturges listened and learned from the acid queen
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