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Senior Moments: The Best 30 Albums of 2012 by Artists 50 and Over

Special Feature by Steven R Rosen, Rock's Backpages, 10 December 2012

As voted by over 80 of RBP's leading lights, here are the year's 30 best long-players made by artists of a certain vintage – those ...

Foo Fighters: Record reviews: Who needs them?

Comment by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 1 January 2013

Music criticism is in a horrible state. It wouldn't have to be if we talked about albums like they really mattered. ...

Björk, Weeknd, The, Strypes, The, Chvrches, Laura Mvula: Pop in 2013 — Under the influence

Preview by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 3 January 2013

What to listen out for this year. ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd still rocks the classics

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 8 August 2013

IT COULD HAPPEN at any rock show, any time, any place, anywhere. The band is revving up for its encore, and you hear a cry ...

Klymaxx, Labelle, Nona Hendryx, Family Stand, The, Mother's Finest, Betty Davis: Rise of the Funky Divas

Overview by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 12 August 2013

BEGINNING IN THE early 1970s, a small army of female funk-rock performers that included Chaka Khan, Betty Davis, Labelle, Mother's Finest, Brides of Funkenstein, Parlet, ...

Ron Sexsmith: A spoonful of sugar

Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, September 2013

Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith's true-life confessions are easy to swallow, says David Burke. So why isn't he more widely prescribed? ...

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Back In the Day: "We Were Probably a Little Snotty"

Retrospective and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 12 December 2013

WHILE METAL MASTERS Megadeth arrive in Houston tonight as part of the tour to promote their most recent record, Super Collider, this year the band ...

Hold Steady, The: The Hold Steady: Teeth Dreams

Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2014

A LEANER, KEENER Hold Steady return from hiatus. ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Interview with Rickey Medlocke

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, July 2014

IT COULD HAPPEN at any rock show, any time, any place, anywhere. The band is revving up for its encore, and you hear a cry ...

Real Kids, The: Real Kids Don't Get Old: John Felice returns with a new Real Kids album

Interview by Dave Laing (Australia), The I-94 Bar, 19 August 2014

JOHN FELICE IS one of rock'n'roll's unsung heroes. A founding member of the Modern Lovers at the age of 15, he quit the band before ...