Now's The Time
All news plus Dudley Moore

What Do Women Want?
Hopey Glass opens our distaff section

Barbara Thompson
Sax talk with Richard Cook

Vanessa Mackness
Voicing it to Ben Watson

My Bloody Valentine
Fatally Femme? Mark Sinker inquires

Rosemary Clooney
Francis David comes-on-a-her house

Laurie Anderson
American exclusive by Simon Reynolds

Billie Holiday
Ian penman, in traction on attraction

Invisible Jukebox
Philip Watson gives Ashley Maher the test

Women In Rap
Kim green walks it like she talks it

Diamanda Galas
Satan doll? And something else, says Brian Morton

The Charts
This month's favourites from around the world

Print Run
More good reading

Soundcheck
All that's new and now on disc

The Write Place
Where readers give us the pip