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Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 26 July 2000

IT’S HARD ENOUGH being a 21st-century, radical feminist post-punk band, but Sleater-Kinney have a further enemy in the sound system. "This is our fourth member," ...

Rage Against The Machine: Roseland Ballroom, New York NY

Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 3 October 1996

AT ABOUT the same time Bob Dole was accepting the GOP's presidential nomination some 3,000 miles away, Rage Against the Machine drop-kicked 'People of the ...

LeAnn Rimes: Birmingham NIA

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 16 September 2004

GENERATIONS OF HAPLESS YOUNG MEN have been attracted by the archetypal "girl next door" on the grounds that beneath that innocent exterior lurks some undiscovered ...

RUN DMC: Raising Hell (Profile/London)

Review by Biba Kopf, NME, 19 July 1986

A SEOUL diversion — RUN DMC coming up, fast food and sweet music ready to go. ...

4 Non Blondes: Non Blonde Ambition

Interview by Max Bell, Vox, October 1993

Less than a year ago no-one had heard of San Francisco's 4 Non Blondes; now, sales of their debut LP are going crazy. Is there ...

Garth Brooks: Fresh Horses (Capitol)

Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, February 1996

LISTENING TO Walk a Mile in My Shoes, RCA's recent boxed set of 70s-era Elvis Presley, I caught an echo of Garth Brooks. For years ...

Faster Pussycat: Wake Me Up When It's Over (Elektra EKT64) ****

Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 2 September 1989

FASTER PUSSYCAT have always meant just two things to me. First off, vocalist Taime Downe (sic) was the geezer who figured he'd get the choice ...

MTV OD

Report by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 10 December 1994

The MTV European Music Awards happened last week. You might have seen them on the telly. Lots and lots of famous stars winning prizes for ...

Guns N' Roses, Jane's Addiction: Guns N' Roses: The Subterraneans

Report and Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 6 June 1987

Something's crawling from the gutters of Los Angeles, something bright and proud and bad, something making claims on setting a scene. Jonh Wilde took a ...

Poison, Warrant, Winger: Poison: Flesh & Blood (Enigma)/Winger: In the Heart of the Young (Atlantic)/Warrant: Cherry Pie (Columbia)

Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 18 September 1990

KIP WINGER is a hunk. And what a perfect hunk he is. With his Harlequin hero name, decepticon logo, and carefully exposed nipple, he's engineered ...

Run DMC: The Best of Run DMC

Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 5 April 2003

Run DMC inspired a generation to turn hip-hop into a multi-billion dollar industry, says GAVIN MARTIN ...

Cheap Trick: At Budokan

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 December 1978

THE TRICK experience, but hardly cheap at £8.50 a shot. Even so, it's worth it, as is evidenced by the fact that Flyover in Hammersmith ...

Tommy Bolin: Private Eyes (CBS IMPORT)*****

Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 30 October 1976

WHILE LISTENING to this white label copy for about the millionth time, all that comes to mind as an introduction to this review is 'forget ...

The Replacements: Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me

Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, August 1987

LIKE SOME STRAY dog you find in an alley, Minneapolis's Replacements are a scruffy mongrel of a band: uncontrollable and ugly, but somehow irresistable. You ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Life On The Line (Island)

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1978

When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette... ...

Rick Derringer: Sweet Evil

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1977

KNOW ABSOLUTELY zero zilch about this Rick Derringer cat 'cept the basic facts, mac – like he was once in the McCoys (Rick's been told ...

Run DMC: Raising Hell (London)

Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 19 July 1986

BOYS FROM THE COUNTY HELL ...

Poison: Flesh & Blood

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1990

THE DOWNFALL of Poison, whose first two albums showcased a carefree marriage of '60s bubblegum to '70s hard rock, can be traced to the day ...

Mark Owen: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997

BOOM, BAH-kaddah, boom-kaddah-dakka-dah, screeee!!! ...

Starz: Coliseum Rock

Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 13 January 1979

THANKFULLY, AFTER their last atrocious album Attention Shoppers (ugh! That's worse than Olias Of Sunhillow for an LP title), this fourth Starz disc finds the ...