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Today's Top 10 Articles
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David Bowie (1995)
Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1995
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Richard Branson
Interview by Paul Rambali, Face, The, 1984
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Mike Oldfield: The Making of Tubular Bells
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, 2001
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Is Music Journalism Dead?
Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 2004
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Joey Ramone 1951-2001
Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 2001
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Richard Hell: Time
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 2002
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Curtis Mayfield: No Longer An Impression
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 1970
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The Turtles Return!
Comment by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 1966
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Roxy Music: Still Raining Still Posing
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 1979
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John Cale: Central Park Life
Interview by Cliff Jones, Arena Homme Plus, 1997
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Paul Rambali gets an audience with Virgin mogul Richard Branson (Face, The, 1984)
Devon Powers remembers Joey Ramone (PopMatters, 2001)
Johnny Black's oral account of the making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (and Richard Branson's Virgin Records) (Q, 2001)
Devon Powers rates a Richard Hell compilation (PopMatters, 2002)
Devon Powers asks that old chestnut of a question, "Is Music Journalism Dead?" (PopMatters, 2004)
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Audio:
Steven Rosen meets Alice In Chains' "new boy" William DuVall (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2009)
Features and interviews:
Keith Altham visits the Beatles on the A Hard Day's Night film set (Fabulous, 1964)
David Griffiths talks nicknames with Unit 4+2 (Record Mirror, 1965)
Louise Criscione goes weak at the knees over the Turtles (KRLA Beat, 1966)
Do not touch that dial! Tom Nolan on Wolfman Jack and the delights of Late-Nite ray-dee-oh (Cheetah, 1967)
Roy Hollingworth spends quality time with Van der Graaf Generator (Melody Maker, 1971)
Chris Salewicz listens to the impossibly pompous Robert Fripp (NME, 1974)
John Abbey, to his surprise, thoroughly enjoys meeting Gil Scott-Heron (Blues & Soul, 1976)
Nick Kent ruminates on the state of Roxy Music (NME, 1979)
NWOBHM! Phil Bell chats with Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and (new boy) Bruce Dickinson (Sounds, 1982)
Len Brown has a chat with former Lindisfarne frontman Alan Hull (NME, 1985)
Jon Young extracts answers from a guarded LL Cool J (Creem, 1987)
Tim Riley considers the continuing relevance of The Fall (Boston Phoenix, 1989)
Nick Coleman interviews production maestro Bill Laswell (Time Out, 1993)
Tore Øien reports on the Black Metal Trial #1: Burzum's Varg Vikernes confesses! (Kerrang!, 1994)
The Black Metal Trial #2: more Black Metal Mayhem! (Kerrang!, 1994)
The Black Metal Trial #2: the verdict is in... Guilty as hell! (Kerrang!, 1994)
Push raps with the Chemical Brothers (Muzik, 1995)
Gerrie Lim ventures Outside in a long interview with David Bowie (Big O, 1995)
Neil Mason in Newport with Catatonia (Melody Maker, 1998)
Andrew Smith meets Moby (Observer Music Monthly, 2000)
Ian Watson interrogates Texas frontgal Sharleen Spiteri (Scotsman, The, 2003)
Ian Watson comes to face to face with 50 Cent (Sunday Herald (Scotland), 2004)
Tony Fletcher revisits his 1979 interview with Mark E. Smith and Marc Riley of the Fall (iJamming.com, 2005)
Jenny Valentish meets Mancunian all-bass supergroup Freebass (Inpress, 2006)
Larry Jaffee hears Tommy Boy honcho Tom Silverman discuss high-end packaging (MediaPack, 2006)
Carol Cooper on NYC dancemeisters Kenny Gonzalez and L'il Louie Vega (Village Voice, 2006)
Ken Scrudato talks True Stories, New York City and more with David Byrne (Filter, 2007)
Kirk Silsbee on a Dylan exhibition at LA's Skirball Center (Life after 50, 2008)
Phil Sutcliffe tells the story of Billie Holiday's searing 'Strange Fruit' (MOJO, 2009)
Jude Rogers introduces Ellie Goulding (Guardian, The, 2009)
James Maycock tells the tale of Gershwin's immortal song 'Summertime' (Daily Telegraph, 2011)
Nick Coleman remembers the great Sandy Denny (Independent on Sunday, 2012)
Album & Live Reviews:
Geoffrey Cannon sleeps through Brinsley Schwarz, digs Van and Quicksilver at Fillmore East (Guardian, The, 1970)
Chris Welch enjoys the Allman Brothers' Idlewild South (Melody Maker, 1971)
Frank isn't dead – he just smells funny: Charles Shaar Murray scorns Zappa's "live" Roxy And Elsewhere (NME, 1974)
Karaoke Rock, '79-style: Andy Gill dismisses live Pretenders (NME, 1979)
Max Bell excoriates Judas Priest's Unleashed In The East (NME, 1979)
Mark Cooper watches a treacly Eagles fail to soar (Record Mirror, 1980)
Geoff Barton bangs his head to Anvil's Hard 'N' Heavy (Sounds, 1982)
Len Brown passes (favourable) judgment on Jennifer Warnes' album of Leonard Cohen songs (NME, 1987)
Deborah Frost reviews an overdue Best of Bowie (Newsday, 1989)
Ted Drozdowski mulls over the autobiography of Marilyn Manson (Boston Phoenix, 1998)
Devon Powers feels The Embarrassment (PopMatters, 2001)
Mac Randall sees a scattering of love and money by LL Cool J (New York Daily News, 2003)
Ian Watson is knocked out by Joanna Newsom, live at London's ICA (Yahoo Music, 2004)
Tony Russell recaps on the career of string-band deity Charlie Poole (Maverick, 2005)
Mike Barnes approves of Buck 65's Secret House Against the World (Wire, The, 2005)
Terry Staunton preaches the gospel according to Elvis Presley (Record Collector, 2005)
Holly Gleason sees Messrs. Hiatt, Lovett, Ely and Clark, live together in Cleveland (No Depression, 2007)
Stephen Dalton reviews the third instalment in Jay-Z's Blueprint series (Times, The, 2009)
Mike Atherton revisits George Faith's Scratch-produced reggae classic Super Eight (Echoes, 2012)
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