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Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1979

DAVID JOHANSEN'S first solo effort last year was a satisfying effort which found the former New York Dolls lead singer working on musical turf halfway ...

AC/DC: Blow Up Your Video (Atlantic)

Review by Amy Linden, Spin, June 1988

FOR THOSE of you who haven't been paying much attention, let me let you in on a little secret: It's okay to like Heavy Metal ...

Journey: Departure (Columbia)

Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 12 June 1980

DEPARTURE OFFERS ample proof that the Seventies hard-rock genre so many people have been trying to bury for the last few years just doesn't want ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ted Nugent: Free-For-All (Epic)

Review by Robert Duncan, Creem, December 1976

ON BEING A MAN ...

Starz, KISS: Starz: Starz

Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 31 January 1977

I LOVE KISS. They can do absolutely no wrong by my book (Sybil). The reason they can do no wrong is that they can do ...

Piper: Can't Wait

Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, August 1977

BY THE TIME the first two cuts on Piper's second album had finished, I thought they'd really done it. 'Can't Wait' and especially 'Drop By ...

Graham Parker: Another Grey Area

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 13 March 1982

OH, DEAR. Talk about unfortunate titles... ...