Observer Music Monthly

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This Sunday the Observer will again come with its glossy Music Monthly supplement. It's always worth a read over a cup of coffee and a slice of toast the morning after the night before. The latest edition will feature the following:

50 CENT

Did you know he was a former crack dealer? No, me either. Anyway, he's about to star in a film and has written a book, hence an in-depth article and on-set interview. Nice.

ALL THAT JAZZ

Behind the scenes in the studio, and on the road with, Jamie Cullum. Oh come on, don't be like that.. I like the Radiohead cover..

PICTURE PERFECT

Something to appease both the inner music and film geek in all of us.. a look into the art of the Rock biopic.

BACKBEAT

A look into the future of music and sport (spurred on by the GLC performing at the England v Wales World Cup qualifier).

HOW TO BUY MUSIC..

In edition to this, each month the magazine explores a musical genre. This time around they've asked the Super Furry Animals' own Gruff Rhys for some pointers on WELSH ROCK MUSIC. As a starter for ten they've listed these websites to whet your appetite: BBC Wales music pages, Siadwell's Welsh Rock & Pop site, Super Furry Animals, Green Man Festival and Feeder.

Handily enough they archive the magazine online, so if you missed the previous issue, take a look here.

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Last Sunday's OMM featured the following:

Lone star
The country's most extravagant entertainer is back, wowing fans at his shows and gadding around London with celebrity friends like David Walliams. But beyond the razzmatazz - as he tells Paul Flynn in an exclusive interview - the real Robbie Williams remains a mixed-up boy from Stoke-on-Trent who has never known love.

Flash-forward
The Pipettes love pop's innocent infancy before the Beatles spoilt it. Now, says Kitty Empire, all they need is a slot on kids' TV and a new Phil Spector.

Lady of the Canyon
When Joni Mitchell arrived in Los Angeles from Canada in 1968, she landed in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Barney Hoskyns tells how the hipsters who all hung out together in Laurel Canyon fell both for Mitchell and her music - and turned Sixties rock on its head.

Most wanted
On the road with Babyshambles.

The whirling wind of God
Dervishes and Sufi singers have long been revered in the West, even as their practices have come under threat across the Islamic world. Peter Culshaw reports on a series of revelatory encounters with different mystics.

All that and a review of the latest releases (they gave the new Kate Bush CD the thumbs up) can be found online until next month.