Roisin Murphy: Dressed to kill

Moloko's singer Roisin Murphy - almost as famous for her clothes as her music - is back as a solo artist.
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Ry Cooder: Mexican blues

Ry Cooder's latest inspiration is the story of a lost Hispanic neighbourhood. Fiona Sturges meets the legendary guitarist
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Motley Crue: Full Metal Racket

Mötley Crüe are back - rich, arthritic, face-lifted, telling Fiona Sturges that the party days are over. Then Tommy Lee arrives... Read more

Billy Corgan: The smashed pumpkin

The trouble with selling 25 million records is the fallout. Billy Corgan tells Fiona Sturges about the human cost of stardom
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Appetite for destruction

Lydia Lunch has been provoking audiences with her anger-fuelled songs and spoken-word performances since the Seventies. But as the punk icon tells Fiona Sturges, no pain, no gain
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The House of Love: Bless this house

Fifteen years after an acrimonious split, The House of Love are making music once again. Terry Bickers and Guy Chadwick tell Fiona Sturges how they kissed and played on
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Dancing in the street

Brighton is a fickle place. At once highbrow and lowbrow, it has a way of adapting its identity to fulfill the desires of its visitors. For day-trippers, it can be a clubber's heaven, a romantic retreat or simply a breath of fresh air away from the heaving metropolis. For the Prince Regent it was an extravagant bolt-hole, though for the writer Graham Greene it was synonymous with depravity and crime.
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The Traveller's Guide To: Historic Brighton

From Regency spa to modern city by the sea, Brighton's story is written through it like a stick of rock.
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'When it comes to music, Brighton knows its stuff'

In a city that has a reputation for being so hip it hurts, planning a night out can be a daunting prospect. Best start with a drink, then
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Resurrection shuffle

As Queen step out on tour with Paul Rodgers at Freddie's mic-stand, Fiona Sturges explains why a singer's death needn't be the end of a ban
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More to life than football

Zoë Lucker stole the show as trashy, tawdry Tanya in Footballers' Wives. But she's giving ITV's hit series the boot. Fiona Sturges cheers her on
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Shirley temper

Shirley Manson has a reputation for being a little ... difficult. But she's not scary. OK? Fiona Sturges gets behind the mask of Garbage's lead singer
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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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