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Cribs takeover

The Cribs and new guitarist Johnny Marr go wild with our music site, commissioning features on fanzines, poems from Kate Nash and exclusive book extracts
  • The Cribs in the Guardian office

    Johnny Marr mixtape: The missing link between the Cribs and the Smiths

    The Cribs guitarist lists the songs that link his old band with his new one. It's a mixtape. Or a Marrxtape, if you will ...

  • Jeffrey Lewis Cribs cartoon

    Jeffrey Lewis draws the Cribs!

    Jeffrey Lewis

    Guest editors the Cribs ask comic book artist and tourmate Jeffrey Lewis to draw the story of their band

  • Cribs video interview: Making Ignore the Ignorant

    It's the last of our five Cribs interviews and time for the band to reveal the secrets behind their fourth album

  • Sean Croghan

    The Cribs showcase artist Sean Croghan

  • Cribs video interview: 'We never phone it in'

  • Nick Scott

    The Cribs showcase designer Nick Scott

    The Wakefield band's favourite graphic designer, Nick Scott, gives us a tour of his work

  • Edwyn Collins

    Edwyn Collins: The road to recovery

    In 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered a debilitating and near fatal brain haemorrhage. Amazingly, the former Orange Juice singer and Cribs producer was able to return to the stage in 2007. In these six extracts from her book Falling and Laughing, Collins's wife and manager Grace Maxwell describes the singer's road to recovery

  • Cribs video interview: Ryan's piercing

    Ryan Jarman, singer and guitarist in the Cribs, recalls the moment when Johnny Marr pierced his ear

  • Ablaze fanzine from late 1980s

    Hey Zinesters! How fanzines empowered a generation

    The Cribs have always been obsessed with the DIY culture surrounding music. They asked their favourite fanzine writer Karren Ablaze to write about how 'zines changed her life

  • Kate Nash's poetry corner

    Ryan Jarman invites his girlfriend – pop's very own Kate Nash, no less – to contribute poems towards the Cribs' the Guardian/music takeover

  • Cribs video interview: Johnny Marr's relationship with the band

    In the second of five video interviews, the Jarman brothers explain why the ex-Smiths man fits into the band so well

  • The Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant

  • Huggy Bear

    The 10 myths of Riot Grrrl

  • The Strange Boys

    The Strange Boys (No 627)

  • Cribs video interview: Johnny Marr joins the band

  • The Cribs showcase artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins

  • Johnny Marr interviews Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis

  • Label of love: Wichita records

  • The Cribs and Johnny Marr plan their guardian.co.uk/music takeover

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