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Interview by Chas de Whalley, Record Mirror, 10 January 1981

You ain't seen nuthin' yet reckons CHAS DE WALLEY about KATE BUSH ...

Guide by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, January 2012

It would be inadvisable to get carried away, but two album releases in 2011 suggests Kate Bush is returning to a more agreeable rate of ...

Kate Bush Christmas Special: Kate (BBC)

Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 12 January 1980

WITH 1979 over and no Kate Bush album in more than a year, a television special by the lady that introduced six new songs was ...

Kate Bush: Hounds of Love (EMI America)

Review by Steve Matteo, Spin, January 1986

IF KATE Bush had been a writer instead of a musician, she might have written something like Alice in Wonderland. She writes children's songs for ...

Marina & the Diamonds: Marina and the Diamonds: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 27 January 2010

AS 2009 DAWNED, the critical consensus held that female-fronted art-pop would dominate the year's musical landscape. This prediction proved remarkably prescient, with Florence and the ...

Tori Amos: The Keys to Success

Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 16 January 1994

Tori Amos, the piano's Nigel Kennedy with a prettier face, has swapped America and her classical training for Britain and its pop. ROBERT SANDALL meets ...

KajaGooGoo: Shy Boys

Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 January 1983

FOR FIVE fresh-faced fellows from Leighton Buzzard 1983 will mean treading very carefully through the minefield that confronts any new band with a strong visual ...

Adele, Duffy: Adele and Duffy are products of the age of X Factor

Comment by John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 4 January 2008

You can thank Simon Cowell for the results of the BBC's The Sound of 2008 poll. ...

Utah Saints: Utah Saints (London/PLG) ; Various Artists: Techno Mancer (Antler Subway/Caroline)

Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 21 January 1993

TECHNO IS music that gets on people's nerves. Whether pounding like metal or watercoloring like New Age, it strikes many as repetitive and cold, about ...

Florence and the Machine, Lady Gaga: On Music: Lady GaGa and Florence Welch

Comment by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 16 January 2009

Lady GaGa and Florence Welch have been hailed as the new queens of pop. But why pretend they're anything more than cheap imitations? ...

Tiny Pop TV: Get the kids on the right tracks

Report by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 31 January 2005

Children need more than Disney power ballads. So why not try your own record collection? ...

Little Boots is the big sound for 2009

Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 10 January 2009

She's Blackpool's answer to Kylie and a fan of unhinged escapism — Little Boots is a hot prospect ...

Kate Nash: Singing oh oh on a Friday night

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), January 2008

WHILE TOM MORELLO strums away in his Nightwatchman guise around the corner, British newcomer Kate Nash is sitting backstage in her dressing room at the ...

The Sugarcubes: Sugarcubes: Shout To Lunch

Interview by David Quantick, NME, 4 January 1992

"It is too cold in this country," sighs Einar Orn. "Cold and damp." He sips at his warming Guinness. Bjork Gudmundsdottir giggles to herself over ...

The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: “Brian Wilson Is A Genius”: The Birth Of A Cult

Essay by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, January 2002

The notion of Brian Wilson as Genius, magicked up by the late Derek Taylor, has had repercussions not just for the man himself but for ...

Prince: Liberated: Prince: Emancipation ****

Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, January 1997

: new label, old work rate ...

Tori Amos: Vote Tori

Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 22 January 1992

Some songwriters wash their dirty linen in public. Tori Amos dries hers there as well. Nick Coleman dodges the rows of hanging knickers to meet ...

Julie Fowlis: Gael Force: Julie Fowlis

Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, January 2008

JULIE FOWLIS spends a lot of time singing to people who, on the whole, haven't got a clue what she's singing about. But it makes ...

Indie Rock's Slow and Painful Death

Report by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 16 January 2012

Sales figures suggest alternative rock is in a dismal place right now. Will it ever recover? And should we care? ...

Tori Amos: Ginger Nut

Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 11 January 1992

She's a Grade A, Class One, Turbo-driven Fruitcake, but Southern belle TORI AMOS might just be the antidote to all those cloying bottle blonde bimbettes ...