Interview/article openings:

• Mojo: 'Combining art school sensibilities and musical inability, Wire rejected punk's pub-rock posturings for driving minimalism, fewer chords and no guitar solos. With the reissure of their first three masterpieces, Kieth Cameron meets the eloquent gentlemen behind the steely battleplan.'


• Mojo: 'Relocated from LA to Rome, Morrissey has made the most passionate album of his career. "I now feel there's some joy to be had in life," he tells a shcoked Andrew Male. portraits by Andy Fallon.'


• Mojo interview: 'ake that, myth-making hacks! In your face, miserly record labels! The big man of celtic soul has returned. "I don't have a hero," growls Van Morrison... "Batman, maybe".


• Uncut- 'BABY HE WAS BORN TO RUN': 'Raised a few miles from Asbury Park and a few blocks from E Street, BRIAN FALLON, is Springsteen's latest, feistiest and best-qualified heir apparent. In 2009, Fallon's band THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM became rumbustious, show-stealing international phenomenon, beloved even by The Boss himself. Not bad for a tattooed punk kid whose 2mother fed me Born To Run with my Cheerios"...'


• Uncut- 'Tender is the Nyro': With her sophisicated , soulful lullabies of Broadways, LAURA NYRO was an incongruous figure at the late-'60s hippy love-in. Eventually, though, she would be acclaimed as the first of a passionate new breed of singer-songwriters, Forty years after her landmark New Your Tendaberry album, Uncut salutes the Gotham loner with a voice, according to Rickie Lee Jones, like "Pure Emotion".'


• Uncut- 'Ben Marshall meets Florence & The Machine': 'The biggest new British act of 2009. Florence Welch is a "fussy little English girl", apparently...'


• Classic Rock- 'Ever Meet Hendrix?': 'he played with Hendrix, toured with Muddy Waters, got tips from BB King and befriended the Stones. Clapton checked him out in Cream Days , Kid Rock had him play on his album, he's a long-time fan of Ministry... and he won the Marshall '11' award at this year's Classic Rock Roll of Honour. He is Billy Giboons, and these are some of his stories.'


• Q- 'The Cheek': 'Suffolk rockers. Sharp suites, disastrously tattoed.'


• Q- 'Lisa Mitchell': 'Machine washable folk-popstrel. Wary of coins.'


• Q- 'Marina & The Diamonds': 'Half-greek, half-welsh singer. Not your typical pop star.'


• Q- 'Lily Allen': 'At decade's end {The Wild Child} is busied by impending gobal meltdown, her carbon footprint... Oh, and her new Land Rover.'


• Q- 'Florence & The Machine': 'Before that Brit Award, {The Chanteuse} could be found pondering whether to have fish or beef with her Smirnoff Ice.'