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Dictators, The: The Dictators: live at El Sol, Madrid 24th November

Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, 15 December 2001

HEY ANDY SHERNOFF! You tell us that your generation ain't the salvation of this R'n'R beastie but I beg to differ. ...

AC/DC: Stiff Upper Lip (EMI)


Review by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 3 March 2000

AC/DC MAY OR may not currently be writing the best lyrics in rock. It's hard to tell, since they don't print them on their album ...

Digital Magic Makes A Musician Of Me

Comment by Tom Cox, Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2004

I THINK IT'S SAFE to say I'm never going to learn to play a musical instrument properly now. The realisation first came to me about ...

Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia (Arista)

Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, December 1976

CHATTY PATTY: PISSIN' IN WAX ...

Run DMC: Serious Rap Attack

Report and Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 13 September 1986

With their Raising Hell tour putting the frighteners on many a major American town and their Rapping Metal single, 'Walk This Way' scaring the pants ...

Ian Hunter: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 18 June 1977

Mutton dressed as lamb ...

Cockney Rejects: The Wild Ones (NEMS pre-release)****

Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 19 June 1982

Flairs and riffers ...

Moby: The Story So Far/Ambient/Early Underground/ Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989 — 1993

Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2000

Feted techno munchkin's prolific past catches up with him ...

Donnas, The: Hot Style: The Donnas

Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 29 May 1999

ALL THE best bands look great. Whether it was the Sex Pistols in their safety pins or Kurt Cobain throwing on a plaid shirt and ...

From Hard Rock to Rock of Ages: Former Hit Parader Writer, Father Charley Crespo

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, February 2002

BACK IN THE '70s and '80s, Charley Crespo frequented the rock clubs of New York and New Jersey gathering info for his fan-obsessed dispatches for ...

The World's Oldest Teenager: Remembering Jane Scott

Obituary by Holly Gleason, Los Angeles Times blogs, 4 July 2011

SHE WAS LIKE Andy Warhol: iconic blond hair set in a most determined pageboy that never moved. That, and red oversized glasses. You couldn't miss ...

Stereophonics: Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 17 March 2005

KELLY JONES HOLDS A GRUDGE — cross him in any which way and he'll take revenge in the best manner he knows; through the power ...

More Outrages at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Shame! 
Shocking! Scandalous! Typical. 
Plus, Another Sinister Cabal Unmasked!

Comment by David Dalton, Gadfly, 22 March 2001

NOW WHAT did I do with my invitation? Not that I had any intention of attending (on moral grounds, mind you). The $25,000 a table ...

Proclaimers, The: The Proclaimers: Right-on in Auchtermuchty

Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 13 November 1987

Adam Sweeting finds two reasons for feeling cheerful about alternatives to pop blandness — Scotland's The Proclaimers ...

Remains, The: The Remains: The Remains

Retrospective by Mark Kemp, Paste, 8 November 2007

Original debut and outtakes cast Boston rockers as America's lost Stones ...

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 ...

Jay-Z: True Playa

Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, February 1999

Jay-Z samples the musical Annie, raps about champagne and has just spent five weeks at the top of the American album charts, and he still ...

Queens of the Stone Age: Mean Fiddler, London

Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 6 July 2002

THERE ARE people everywhere. Crowded at the front of the stage, clogging the bar, hanging on the stair rails, queuing for the toilets. The room ...

Joan Jett: The Original Riot Grrrl

Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 24 March 1994

Joan Jett lives up to her bad reputation ...

MTV snaps up video rights

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, August 1984

SAN FRANCISCO — Rock-video fans who don't get their MTV — and that means seventy-five percent of the country's households — were at the losing ...