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Clarence Reid (aka Blowfly): Sex and the Single

Comment by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 26 August 1976

TEN YEARS ago, the Kingsmen used to launch, full tilt, into their biggest hit, 'Louie Louie', then stop. "Hey, these guys never heard this song ...

Ratt: Ratt (Time Coast/Atlantic)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1985

RATT BETWEEN THE LIPS ...

Faster Pussycat, Guns N' Roses: Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen) **; Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat (Elektra) **

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1987

WHAM, GLAM, NO THANK YOU, MA'AM ...

Pearl Jam: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco

Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 9 December 1993

THERE WAS NOTHING pedestrian about the first show of the Pearl Jam tour. ...

Deep Purple: Made in Europe

Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 28 February 1977

LET'S SEE, as of now I have written two features on Deep Purple, plus, uh, I reviewed In Rock, Machine Head, and Who Do We ...

Starz: Starz

Review by Max Bell, NME, 15 January 1977

PREDICTABLE BOYS from the Rock Steady stable with Jack Douglas production. ...

Morrissey, New York Dolls: Dolly Mixture Wasn't Right

Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, Sounds, 27 December 1975

THE BRITISH public are very wary of new bands. Anything that aims to change the day-to-day routine of the rock world is carefully observed before ...

Bon Jovi: These Days (Mercury 5282482)

Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1995

RETURNING FROM their minor flirtation with funky modernity and relatively short hair on Keep The Faith, Jon and the boys swing back into classic Jovi ...

Cinderella: Heartbreak Station

Review by Neil Perry, Select, January 1991

A LOT of people have probably been put off by the name, expecting a super-tacky hairspray 'n' lip-gloss LA glam outfit, but Cinderella are among ...

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 ...

Frank Zappa: Zappa Honors The Hall Of Fame

Report and Interview by Bill Holdship, BAM, 10 February 1995

IF ANYONE OUT there is wondering why Lou Reed (who never had a good word to say about Frank Zappa during Zappa's lifetime) was chosen ...

Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines Of God

Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2000

MONOLITHIC GOTH-metal comeback from crisis-hit Mr Happy of alternative rock. ...

Grace Slick: Welcome To The Wrecking Ball (Grunt)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1981

THIS ISSUE will be hitting the stands a week or two after Valentine's Day, so I won't be too remiss in telling Grace Slick that ...

Artful Dodger: Artful Dodger

Comment by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, December 1975

PLAYING straight uncomplicated hard rock, without a unified theme or specific image, without fantastic flights of lyrical invention or instrumental improvisation, and without pandering to ...

Juan Atkins, Kurtis Mantronik: Juan Atkins: Wax Trax! MasterMix Volume 1 (Wax Trax!/TVT)***½; Kurtis Mantronik: I Sing The Body Electro (Oxygen Music Works) ***

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1999

Two techno pioneers prove why they're legends ...

Hanson: Middle Of Nowhere (Mercury) ***

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 26 June 1997

'MMMBOP', the debut hit by kiddie trio Hanson that's now warming up Top 40 charts and fourth-grade hearts, sticks in your brain like Trident in ...

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, ...

Van Halen: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 December 1976

Spreading Out From Punk-Rock ...

Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n Roll Trio: Tear It Up (Solid Smoke SS-8001)

Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 7 September 1978

OF ALL THE raving rockabilly legends — men like Charlie Feathers and Sonny Burgess — who never gained a commercial foothold, Johnny Burnette was one ...

Robert Plant: Fate Of Nations

Review by Max Bell, Vox, June 1993

FATE OF NATIONS is Robert Plant's seventh solo album. Must be some mystic significance there for you Zen and Manic Nirvana freaks. Robert too, judging ...