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How did an art-rock band from New York become so popular? By not caring whether people liked them or not. Interpol frontman Paul Banks tells Tony Clayton-Lea about eradicating sensitivity and his quest for mental equilibrium
Does the imminent arrival of digital radio fill you with airwave apprehension? Fear not. With Jim Carroll's guide to digital radio, you can be a DAB hand at the new technology "Digital radio sets have a screen which carries information on the song, show or station"
For most of the time since its launch in 1985, Spin magazine has been a successful dedicated college rock magazine. The monthly US equivalent of the NME is now, though, in a seemingly terminal decline and probably has been since the self-proclaimed chronicler of "all the music that rocks" put the very unrocky Beyoncé Knowles on its cover last year - and had a bunch of subscriptions cancelled in protest.