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Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 29 October 1987

New band that's special ...

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion 1; Use Your Illusion 2 (Geffen)

Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, November 1991

THE BAND'S ex-manager Alan Niven described Use Your Illusion I and II as "Pink Floyd's The Wall meets Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti." Niven was on ...

Good Rats, The: Good Rats: From Rats To Riches (Passport)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1978

ACCORDING TO the liner notes, the Good Rats recorded this new set in just two weeks last fall. Never mind that this was their first ...

Run DMC: Tear Down The Walls, Pack Out The Halls: On The (Hard) Beat With Run-DMC

Report and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, December 1986

RUN, DMC and Jam Master Jay are mad as hell, not about to take it anymore, and quite ready to let you know about the ...

Kelly Clarkson: All I Ever Wanted

Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2009

IN MATTERS OF ART there's no right, no wrong, just opinion. ...

Pet Shop Boys: Fundamental

Review by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 28 July 2006

PREPARE FOR ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME interment when critics praise your latest release as Your Best Album Since. When you've recorded a benchmark, ...

Tasha Thomas: Title Doubt

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 10 April 1979

ALTHOUGH 'Shoot Me' has been the vehicle for the world to become acquainted with Ms. Tasha Thomas, it is a somewhat unlikely source. 'Shoot Me ...

M, Mötley Crüe: Mötley Crüe: Shout At The Devil (Elektra)

Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 6 October 1983

"THOSE WHO have the youth have the future". Unknowingly, unwittingly even, Mötley Crüe have succinctly summarised the task that lies ahead of them in their ...

Run-DMC: Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, November 1986

IF YOU think that rap is just some metrical motor-mouth rhymin' about how great he is in every way, with minimal but apocalyptically loud, reverb ...

Guns N' Roses: Neurotic Outsiders: Duff and Matt talk records

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, September 1996

The first record you ever bought Matt: 1966, A Hard Day’s Night. I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show — I was ...

Georgia Satellites: Fire The Retro Rockets

Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Creem, April 1987

"CREEM WAS always my favorite magazine when I was a kid," Rick Richards is saying, dreams of Boy Howdy running through his mind. "I remember ...

Nashville Pussy: Nashville Breaks Out: Sex, Jokes and Rock 'N' Roll Help An Indie Band On The Rise

Profile and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 30 July 1999

"WE ARE,'' says guitarist Ruyter Suys (pronounced "Rider Sighs''), of the band Nashville Pussy, "aiming for the more basic enthusiasms of life, just having a ...

W.A.S.P.: Penelope Spheeris: The "Mad Surgeon" of Film

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, RAW, 6 September 1989

That's American director PENELOPE SPHEERIS, whose documentary on the LA Metal scene The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years has just opened ...

Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes Go Higher

Interview by Jon Young, Musician, February 1991

The brothers Robinson work it out ...

Megadeth: 'Deth Warmed Up!

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 21 May 1994

There's a new vibe about MEGADETH in 1994 — they're happy, mellow, positive. They actually like each other, goddammit! What the hell's gotten into 'em?! ...

Rick Derringer: This Man Is Aiming To Kill

Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 25 September 1976

Excuse the pun – it's Rick Derringer, of course, knockin' 'em down with hardnose rock'n'roll. ...

Guns N' Roses: Raising Hell in the City of Angels

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 4 April 1987

Over on L.A.'s Santa Monica Boulevard, rock renegades GUNS N' ROSES are having a ball. PAUL ELLIOTT parrys shots with L.A.'s scuzziest scumbags. ...

Guns N' Roses: Dancing with Mr Brownstone

Profile by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 4 November 1989

GUNS N' ROSES are the archetypal rock'n'roll renegades — loud-mouthed American punks fuelled on liquor and drugs as they rampage on a crazed course towards self-destruction. Paul ...

Guns N' Roses: The Hard Truth About Guns N' Roses

Special Feature by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 17 November 1988

Finally, some bad boys who are good ...

Ted Nugent: Raw Power

Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 August 1976

FEW ARTISTS have quite as much faith in themselves as Ted Nugent, the Midwestern rocker and former leader of the Amboy Dukes. He is getting ...