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Waterboys, The: The Waterboys: The Man In The Ironic Mask

Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2006

Back with what's being heralded as their best album for two decades, the Waterboys have a busy year ahead. Mike Scott cracks a smile for ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The, Rick Rubin: Rick Rubin: The Man Who Made The Chilis Hot

Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2006

As the Red Hot Chili Peppers release a monumental new album, their producer Rick Rubin tells Robert Sandall how he tamed one of pop's most ...

New York Dolls: Make-up America!

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, June 2006

In 1971 Manhattan, five teenage toughs in make-up, tried to kick-start the punk revolution. By 1976 the New York Dolls seemed finished, poleaxed by drugs, ...

Orson: Metropolitan University, Leeds

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 5 June 2006

THE HOME OFFICE has more to worry about than escaped prisoners trying to attack us in our beds. Our communities are being invaded by floppy-haired, ...

Keith Richards: How to be Keef: A User's Guide

Guide by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 9 July 2006

WHAT GOES through the mind of a rock colossus as he falls from a coconut tree? Depends on your rock colossus, of course. So let's ...

Pet Shop Boys: Fundamental

Review by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 28 July 2006

PREPARE FOR ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME interment when critics praise your latest release as Your Best Album Since. When you've recorded a benchmark, ...

Radiohead, Thom Yorke: Thom Yorke: Ghost in the Machine

Interview by Nick Kent, MOJO, August 2006

Q: What happens when "a bunch of stupidly self-critical pathological overachievers" form a rock band? A: They become Radiohead. Thom Yorke talks candidly to Nick Kent ...

Status Quo: Whatever You Want (To Eat): Having Lunch With Status Quo

Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, December 2006

Note: This is the original "director's cut" version of the piece that ran in The Word. ...

Prince at the Super Bowl: A Preview

Report by Evelyn McDonnell, Times Herald-Record, 4 February 2007

WHEN PRINCE sat down with the producers of Super Bowl XLI entertainment to make his pitch for playing the halftime show, he had done his ...

Van Halen

Retrospective by Deborah Frost, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 12 March 2007

THE NATIONAL Weather Service labels a blizzard as severe when winds reach 45 miles her hour, snowfall is dense, and the temperature drops to ten ...

Aerosmith: Deuces Are Wild

Retrospective and Interview by Pete Makowski, Classic Rock, May 2007

LONDON, TUESDAY, February 20, 2007, 11.35pm. Me, photographer Ross Halfin, Aerosmith tour manager John Bionelli and oh yeah – Joe Perry and Jimmy Page are ...

Mike Scott, Waterboys, The: Mike Scott: The Man In The Ironic Mask

Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2007

Back with what's being heralded as their best album for two decades, the Waterboys have a busy year ahead. Mike Scott cracks a smile for ...

North Mississippi Allstars: Still Hollerin' 10 Years On

Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, June 2007

IT'S 4:15 A.M., the desert sky is as dark as a card shark's heart, and the North Mississippi Allstars are on their way to McCarran ...

Sly & The Family Stone: Sly Stone's Higher Power

Profile and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, August 2007

Sly Stone vanished into rumor in the 1980s, remembered only by the great songs ('I Want to Take You Higher', 'Dance to the Music') he ...

Legends of Songwriting: Diane Warren

Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, September 2007

ASKED WHETHER she could ever love a person as much as she loves songwriting, Diane Warren doesn't miss a beat in answering an emphatic "No." ...