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Nine highlights from Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People (by Editorial Staff, November/December 2011 ): The best bits and the inside scoops from three years of our seasonal rationalist jamboree
Briefing: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People (by Adam Rutherford, September/October 2011 ): Adam Rutherford remembers getting atheists reciting the Lord's Prayer at last year's rationalist jamboree
God & Devil: Country Songs (by Andrew Mueller, July/August 2011 ): Five tracks about God, and five about the Devil. Selected by Andrew Mueller
Endgame: The wrong note (by Laurie Taylor, July/August 2011 ): In which Laurie Taylor takes up a new hobby
Book review: 33 Revolutions Per Minute by Dorian Lynskey (by Andrew Mueller, March/April 2011 ): Andrew Mueller has fun with an intelligent history of protest songs
Q&A: Tim Minchin (by Editorial Staff, July/August 2010 ): As he prepares for his first ever arena tour, we catch up with rising rationalist star Tim Minchin
Shock and bore (by Fiona Russell Powell, July/August 2009 ): New Humanist prides itself on tracking down and exposing charlatans and cultists. But when they are as bizarre as Genesis P-Orridge, even our nerve failed. So we sent Fiona Russell Powell instead
Rhythm rites (by Crispin Robinson, July/August 2009 ): Crispin Robinson explains why he has become initiated in an Afro-Cuban drumming cult
Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music by Greg Milner (by Andrew Mueller, July/August 2009 ): Andrew Mueller appreciates a note-perfect history of recorded music
Bad vibrations (by Martin Cloonan, March/April 2009 ): Songs can break more than your heart. Martin Cloonan on the sinister uses and abuses of music
Muslim metal (by Mark LeVine, January/February 2009 ): As Egyptians bravely protest their government, we thought it a good moment to represent this piece about the Muslim metal scene which has incubated resistance. Across the Islamic world young people are flocking to the sounds of hardcore rock and death metal. Mark LeVine reports from Cairo
Roots (by Caspar Melville, July/August 2008 ): Caspar Melville unravels the rise and fall of dreadlocks
True Norwegian Black Metal by Peter Beste (by Keith Kahn-Harris, July/August 2008 ): In deepest Scandinavia, Keith Kahn-Harris discovers social democratic Satanism
Field of nightmares (by Andrew Mueller, May/June 2008 ): As festival season begins Andrew Mueller counts off the reasons to avoid them
Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds (by Andrew Mueller, March/April 2008 ): Andrew Mueller travels back in time to Acid House
There's a Riot Going On by Peter Doggett (by Andrew Mueller, November/December 2007 ): Andrew Mueller takes on Sixties counter-culture
Natural truth (by Marybeth Hamilton, January/February 2007 ): Marybeth Hamilton celebrates the passion of a record collector
Supreme being (by Ashley Kahn, July/August 2006 ): Ashley Kahn on Coltrane's spiritual journey
Sandals and spooks (by Ken Hunt, July/August 2006 ): Why did the British secret services take such a keen interest in the activities of folk icon Ewan MacColl? Ken Hunt digs in the archives
Lost gods (by Andrew Mueller, May/June 2006 ): Andrew Mueller on the ghost of punk
Wonderful world (by Tony Russell, May/June 2006 ): Tony Russell reviews Thomas Brother's new book on Satchmo and New Orleans
French Farce (by Caspar Melville, January/February 2006 ): Hip hop didn't spark the riots in Paris, says Caspar Melville; it merely predicted them
Natty Dread (by Lloyd Bradley, November/December 2005 ): Lloyd Bradley assesses the eternal influence of Jamaica's finest
True Aim (by Andrew Mueller, September/October 2005 ): Andrew Mueller peruses the life of the other Elvis
God's my big homie (by Caspar Melville, July/August 2005 ): Caspar Melville reports on the resurrection of religion in black popular music
The real thing (by Caspar Melville, May/June 2005 ): Caspar Melville on the oddness of rock snobbery
Hell is other iPods (by Caspar Melville, March/April 2005 ): Caspar Melville on the loneliness of the long-distance shuffler
From Juke Joints to Jamie Callum (by Caspar Melville, January/February 2005 ): Caspar Melville goes in search of the spirit of jazz
Beats, rhymes and grime (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2004 ): As record companies play safe by producing bland supermarket pop, Caspar Melville hopes an unlikely contender - British hip hop - will succeed in bringing music back to life
Writhing on Ecstasy (by Caspar Melville, July/August 2004 ): Acid House inspired even the most unlikely ravers to brave the dance floor. But did it leave anything behind once the high was over, asks Caspar Melville