David Stubbs
David Stubbs began working life at Melody Maker, joining the staff in 1987, where he wrote the Talk Talk Talk column, creating the "Mr Agreeable" character. He subsequently joined NME and Uncut, and later The Wire magazine. His work regularly appears in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, When Saturday Comes and The Quietus.
He is the author of several books including a song-by-song analysis of the work of Jimi Hendrix and Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen. He also contributed to No Regrets, the recent anthology of essays on Scott Walker. He is currently working on a book about Krautrock.
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A Certain Ratio: Early (Soul Jazz)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
BEFORE A CERTAIN Ratio there was The Pop Group but, the latter apart, no one can claim to have played an earlier role post-punk's then ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 1998
"I DIDN'T START UP A BAND BECAUSE I COULDN'T get laid," says Greg Dulli with that suave, Satanic leer of his. "I started a band ...
Air, Daft Punk: Daft Punk & Air: Disco Tech
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
DAFT PUNK AND AIR ARE THE BEATLES AND STONES OF THE INTERNATIONAL DANCE SCENE. SO WHY IS THE FRENCH ESTABLISHMENT – SO PROUD OF ITS ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, February 1989
ABOUT TO TOUR BRITAIN WITH LIVING COLOUR AS SUPPORT, ANTHRAX TELL DAVID STUBBS HOW THEY PLAN TO BE AS BIG AS U2 WITHOUT SELLING THEIR ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2001
LATEST TWO-CD album from ageing boy genius shows hints of classical influence ...
Aphex Twin: 'Phex And Drugs And Rock'N'Roll
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, March 1994
APHEX TWIN is the first superstar of ambient, the crossover King of innovative pop. Which is why Seefeel, Saint Etienne, The Boo Radleys, Curve, hell, ...
Asian Dub Foundation: Community Music
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2000
Storming new set of eclectic agit-pop from best live band in Britain ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998
"BRITPOP IS AN ATTEMPT TO REASSERT A sort of mythical whiteness," asserts Aniruddha Das, aka Dr Das, bassist of Asian Dub Foundation, leaning forward in ...
Associates, The: The Associates: The Affectionate Punch
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 1998
THIS is impossible music. It's impossible to mimic its myriad uniqueness, impossible to place in pop time, impossible to imagine how such music could ever ...
Associates, The, Billy Mackenzie: Billy MacKenzie
Profile by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
"MacKenzie's real fear was the banal actuality of pop success…to keep his perfect, impossible-past-and-future pop fantasy intact, it was necessary to destroy Associates" ...
B-52s, The: The B-52s: Time Capsule: Songs For A Future Generation
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998
HISTORY OF Athens perfect popsters with two new tracks. ...
Baby Bird: There's Something Going On
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1998
STEVEN JONES'/Baby Bird's biggest sounding and best offering to date ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1997
Baby Bird's Stephen Jones talks to David Stubbs about life after 'You're Gorgeous' ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2000
IN AN ANNOYINGINGLY loud Oxford Street pub, Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, is struggling to make his voice heard above the raucously assertive blare ...
Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Could Damon Cough's long-awaited debut be the indie Pet Sounds? ...
Beastie Boys, The: Beastie Boys: The Sounds Of Science
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
Extensive compilation of their greatest hits, finest moments and rarities ...
Beatles, The: The Death Of The Beatles
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
JANUARY 2, 1969. They are probably the four most famous people in the world, but this morning at the raw beginning of the last year ...
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, June 1996
BECK is back. But is the slacker guru's new opus a celebration of eclectic musical styles or just an aimless shambles? ...
Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth And the Blast First Axis
Essay by David Stubbs, Wire, The, February 2009
AS FAR AS many people were concerned in the 80s, in the UK in particular, rock was a discredited medium. ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
DEBUT FROM Bournemouth 'blue-eyed soul' Seventies revivalist. ...
Black Box Recorder: The Facts Of Life
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2000
LIKE THE ABSINTHE which Black Box Recorder's John Moore has busied himself importing since last year, BBR are an unusually toxic pleasure. Here, once more, ...
Black Sabbath: The Best Of Black Sabbath
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
TWO-CD compilation of Brummie metallurgists' grimmest, finest moments. ...
Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzy Osbourne: His Satanic Majesty Repents
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1997
JOHN "OZZY" OSBOURNE, FORMER HELL raiser, outrageous roister-doister, Dark Lord of Metal and rough diamond geezer extraordinaire has sung much about death, visited it summarily ...
Film/DVD Review by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, March 2003
THERE ARE MANY reasons to see Live Forever, the new documentary about the 1990s Britpop years. Mostly they involve Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn being ...
Bobby Brown: Goodbye Cruel World
Report and Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, June 1989
THE ALL-SINGING, ALL-DANCING WUNDERKIND IS CURRENTLY THE FASTEST RISING STAR IN AMERICA WITH HIS DEBUT ALBUM DON'T BE CRUEL. AT ONLY 20 HE IS SET ...
Butthole Surfers: Swamp Things
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, April 1988
THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS ARE THE MONSTER SOUND OF THE EIGHTIES, A SWELLING CULT WHO PULL THEM IN IN DROVES AND HAVE TO TURN AWAY JUST ...
Butthole Surfers: Crust Of A Wave
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
THEY STARTED musical life riding the first wave of US punk rock in the early Eighties, Texans purveying lo-fi snotballs of geetar with titles like ...
Chemical Brothers, The: Chemical Brothers: Come With Us (Freestyle Dust/Virgin)***
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 2002
PSYCHEDELIA-TINGED fourth offering from Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, featuring Beth Orton and Richard Ashcroft ...
Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love: Kurt and Courtney; dir Nick Broomfield
Film/DVD Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
Starring Nick Broomfield, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love Directed by Nick Broomfield Opens July 3, Cert tbc, 99 mins ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
WHEN ROCK stars die, it's usually as a result of living too well, taking too much, going too fast, getting too high. ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2000
"Some people know why they make music, I suppose. But we never talk about what we're doing. Ever" – Simon Raymonde, 1990 ...
DAF: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft: Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1998
Overdue reissue of Eighties German minimalist synth duo's electronic pop albums ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2001
Gods of "filter disco" finally issue follow-up to 1997'strailblazing Homework. ...
Daft Punk: Plastique Fantastique
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, March 1997
It's taken a while, but mainstream America is finally welcoming dance music with open aims. Now they're going crazy over the Chemicals and are poised ...
Death In Vegas: Scorpio Rising (BMG) ***
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2002
Brighter follow-up to 1999's The Contino Sessions, featuring Liam Gallagher and Paul Weller on vocals. ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997
Junior Delgado: Dance A Dub (Big Cat); Augustus Pablo: Augustus Pablo Presents DJs From 70s-80s (Big Cat) ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
DEVO'S FIRST single, 'Jock Homo', was released in 1977. An instant hit, it expounded the group's theory of de-evolution, that mankind is regressing, rather than ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2000
Stretching the imagination: Frischmann's answer-album to Blur's relationship-dissecting 13 ...
Brian Eno: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk: Brian Eno
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1997
...on Russia, Roxy and tennis players' bottoms ...
Perry Farrell: Song Yet To Be Sung (Virgin)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
FIRST SOLO album from ex-Jane's Addiction frontman in half-century celebratory mode ...
Garbage: Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom)*****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2001
THIRD AND arguably best album yet from Madison's finest. ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1998
THERE ARE surprisingly few bands like Garbage, bands operating in that shadowy, uncertain zone between the flesh of rock and the metal of techno. They're ...
Essay by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, November 2005
IN SPRING 1981, in an act akin to James Brown relocating to Hull, a 42-year-old cash-strapped Marvin Gaye took the Southampton ferry to the Belgian ...
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennae To Heaven
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2000
ANOTHER BRILLIANT sprawl of ambient indie-rock from the Montreal 10-piece ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, June 1987
Good lads and all that but are Go West any more than the sum of pop's mediocrity? David Stubbs takes a gander ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, August 1986
GWEN GUTHRIE, currently burning 'em up with 'Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent' explains to David Stubbs the genesis of 'Fly Girl' ...
Roy Harper: The Spirit Lives: Roy Harper
Retrospective and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
"I DON'T THINK I'm very good at interviews, because I have too many thoughts going off at the same time to be able to explain ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Where Jimi Hendrix came from and where he would have gone next, had he survived, Hendrix expert Charles Shaar Murray talks to David Stubbs ...
Jimi Hendrix: Public Image Unlimited
Essay by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix the black radical. Hendrix the glam dandy. Hendrix the icon. Hendrix the man. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Why Are You Experienced is Rock's Greatest Debut Album
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
'WE'LL WATCH THE SUN RISE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA...' ...
Jimi Hendrix: Mitch Mitchell Remembered
Obituary by David Stubbs, Guardian Unlimited, November 2008
THE DEATH of drummer Mitch Mitchell, aged 61, marks an unwanted milestone in rock mortality. ...
Matthew Herbert: Fuelled By Outrage
Interview by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, May 2006
"CHECK THESE OUT," says Matthew Herbert aka Dr Rockit, Radio Boy, modern-day big-band leader, seductive deep-house purveyor, moments after answering the door to his studio-cum-pad ...
Human League, The: The Human League: Are Friends Electro?
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001
JOANNE CATHERALL (the brunette one) has been relatively quiet throughout the interview, content to pick through her lunch while Susanne Sulley (the blonde one) and ...
Human League, The: The Human League: Romantic Antics
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, September 1990
THE HUMAN LEAGUE are back among us, more serious than ever, not for a last gasp, but completely reinvigorated and rewired – after what ...
Janet Jackson: Complete Control
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, March 1987
'WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I USED TO TALK TO THE ANIMALS... THEY'RE GOOD LISTENERS, AND I ALWAYS FELT THEY UNDERSTOOD.' SO SAYS JANET JACKSON, IN ...
Michael Jackson: Greatest Hits – History Volume 1
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2001
ONCE UPON a time, wise critics dubbed Michael Jackson pop's Peter Pan. ...
Michael Jackson: Off The Wall*****, Thriller**** and Bad**** (Epic)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2001
RE-RELEASED SOLO albums include interviews with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton plus demos and unreleased tracks. ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2002
Star-Spangled Bummer: Record of benefit concert/telethon for victims of September 11 ...
Jimi Hendrix: Jim Hendrix: Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997
Higher than the sun ...
John Oswald: Plunderphonics 69/96 (Fony)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
Sample Minded… Sampladelia run rampant from the USA ...
Grace Jones: Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998
Pop's most formidable iconette of electro-dance ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 1998
JOY DIVISION were the last British band who mattered, for whom something was truly the matter. Forget Oasis' last-gasp efforts to bring the rock community ...
KLF, The: The KLF: Getting Arrested With Bill & Jimmy
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Quietus, The, August 2008
SO, IT'S LIKE THIS. It's February 1991. A couple of years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, which supposedly heralded the End of History, ...
KLF, The: The KLF: Pranks for the Memory
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, February 1991
They can't help having hits, they can't come to terms with fame and they can't keep out of trouble! DAVID STUBBS witnesses THE KLF's dawn ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2001
LONG OVERDUE re-release of debut by great lost Britpop precursors ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2000
ANOTHER SUPERLATIVE ambient/techno album from former Bjork collaborator ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2002
THE LAST THREE YEARS OF the decade he had to an almost unbelievable extent inspired and defined had been for John Lennon a sullen, hellish ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Various Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997
A LOT of claims are being made for Yoko Ono. That those first albums she made with Lennon in the late Sixties weren't the random ...
Courtney Love, Nirvana: Kurt and Courtney: Love Will Tear It Apart
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
"I'M INTERESTED IN forbidden stories," says Nick Broomfield of his latest project, Kurt And Courtney, his drawling English vowels tanned with West Coast inflexions from ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997
THIS IS Lydon's first solo album, recorded before and after the calamitous reunion of The Sex Pistols. You'd have thought his cup of derision would ...
Manic Street Preachers' Richey Edwards
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
"It's about detesting the body. That's why you choose to mark it...all my life I've felt weak compared to others. If they want to crush ...
Manic Street Preachers: Know Your Enemy
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2001
Tentatively experimental, hardline political stuff from Wire, Bradfield and Moore ...
Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 1998
Fifth album, and long-awaited follow-up to Everything Must Go ...
Marc Bolan, David Bowie: Glam Revival
Comment by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 1998
Why the frightening prospect of a full-scale Glam revival fills David Stubbs with dread… ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2000
DAVID STUBBS SWOONS OVER THAT POIGNANT PRECURSOR OF TRIP HOP, JOHN MARTYN'S SOLID AIR ...
Megadeth: So Far, So Good... So What! (Capitol)
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, March 1988
THE DEATH MACHINE ...
Mercury Rev: Dream Of A Lifetime
Retrospective and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001
"WE WERE NEVER interested in placing ourselves, in saying that we were a band that started in the late Eighties and were the musical emissaries ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
'Is Morris operating from a high plane of disgust or from some pit of personal rage?' Compilation of best bits from the dark ambient comedy ...
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, May 1993
BEETHOVEN WAS indeed deaf. And, Lord, upon looking at the CD panel and realising that after a full prison stretch of maudlin warbling that there ...
Mothers Of Invention, The, Frank Zappa: Frank Zappa RIP
Obituary by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, December 1993
FRANK ZAPPA, who died last week at the age of 52, has long been regarded as one of the most important figures in rock, a ...
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: I Hate Myself And I Want To Die
Obituary by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, April 1994
AND SO, to quote his mother, the only person who appears to have been actively concerned about his well-being in the last few days of ...
Oasis: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2000
Change of producer and change of mood for long-awaited fourth album ...
Orbital: The Altogether (ffrr) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2001
ON THE techno calendar, the present era isn't so much AD as AD&B – the post-drum'n'bass era. That genre followed a curious arc – it ...
Outkast: OutKast: Kicking up a Stank (Arista) *****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2002
Best of dirty South rappers' first three albums interspersed with new material ...
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Catalogue Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Quietus, The, July 2008
PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA, a large, shifting coalition of classical and acoustic musicians led by the late Simon Jeffes, are often regarded with either confusion or ...
Pere Ubu: The Tenement Commandments
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, March 1988
BEAMING BACK FROM HIS ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE, DAVID THOMAS LEADS PERE UBU'S MANIC WALTZ INTO THE DANGER ZONE. DAVID STUBBS TRACKS DOWN THE REFORMED AND REVITALISED ...
Pixies, The: The Pixies: Death To The Pixies
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 1997
The Pixies: grievous, greedy and groundbreaking ...
Position Normal: Goodly Time (Rum) *****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
VINYL-ONLY second LP from art-rock samplers in exclusive handprinted sleeve. ...
Prefab Sprout: The King Of Rock'n'Roll
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001
FOR SOMEONE who's only ever strived to bring a little wistful beauty into our pop lives, with an honest and artisan approach to the craft ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 2000
Their sixth album kick starts the Millennium in angry electric jazz/punk/funk style. Significantly, the sleeve thanks Jaki Liebezeit of Can and The Prodigy's Liam Hewlett ...
Public Image Ltd: PiL: Three's Company…
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
David Stubbs takes a shine to the mesmerising remorselessness of PUBLIC IMAGE LTD's post-punk Metal Box... ...
Radiohead: Amnesiac (Parlophone)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
DISGUST, DESPERATION, desolation, derision – all of these were once key qualities in what constituted left-field/indie. From The Birthday Party to PiL, from Elvis Costello ...
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The: Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, March 1988
SO THIS is where all the funk went. The Red Hot Chili Peppers have triumphed in a medium I thought you could only blunder in ...
R.E.M.: REM: Man On The Moon — Soundtrack
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
R.E.M.'s ASSOCIATION with Andy Kaufman goes back to 1993 when they penned 'Man On The Moon', Stipe's achingly personal tribute to the late comedian. ...
Romanthony: R.Hide In Plain Site
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2000
BRILLIANT RETRO-futurist funk from New Jersey house sensation. ...
Eileen Rose: Live at Borders Bookshop, London
Live Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2001
BOSTONIAN EX-PAT Eileen Rose continues to rack up plaudits for her mesmeric debut album Shine Like It Does and so it was that, flanked by ...
Saint Etienne: St Etienne: Sound Of Water
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
BACK IN the early Nineties, St Etienne were ubiquitous, perhaps a little too ubiquitous. Rarely out of the music press, constantly hovering on the edge ...
Scritti Politti: Everything's Gone Green
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2001
David Stubbs on Scritti Politti's subversive pop-soul masterpiece, Songs To Remember ...
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
David Stubbs commends Simple Minds' New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) ...
Obituary by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
IN A SENSE, Frank Sinatra represented a lie. Much as beneath Bing Crosby's ambling, indolent persona lay a pointedly less easy-going character, Sinatra was actually ...
Roni Size and Reprazent: Collective Consciousness
Report and Interview by David Stubbs, Vox, January 1998
Dust off your bus pass and get down with RONI SIZE and REPRAZENT. There's Bristol beats aplenty, Genghis Khan gets a look in, and skipping ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Sly Stone: Back On The Right Track*** and Ain't But The One Way*** (Warner)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
REISSUE OF Sylvester Stewart's last two albums to date ...
Spice Girls, The: The Spice Girls: The Notorious Zig-A-Zig-Ah!
Profile by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, August 1997
THERE'S NO ducking it. The Spice Girls are undoubtedly the most successful British teenypop act. Their album, Spice, has sold over seven million albums in ...
Spiritualized: Urban Spaced Man
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2001
ON LET IT Come Down, the latest and greatest Spiritualized album, Jason Pierce utilises some 100 musicians, among them choristers, gospel singers and entire brass ...
Streets, The: The Streets: The Hardest Way To Make A Living (679) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, 2005
MIKE SKINNER'S EXISTENCE has been transformed by success and fortune. It's a fortune accrued by observing, in startlingly prosaic detail, a life of Wetherspoons and ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 1998
SLUMPED IN A sofa in the Columbia Hotel, Alan Vega is not quite the swarthy hunk of existential rockabilly perfection he was in his heyday. ...
Essay by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, October 2005
"FUCK THE GHETTO! Look to space!" That, according to Wayne Kramer of MC5, in a nutshell was the message of Sun Ra, as conveyed over ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2000
Long-awaited second album from R&B retro whiz in lovelorn mode. ...
Throwing Muses: Daughters Of The Fatherland
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, January 1989
THEIR HUNKPAPA ALBUM IS WIDELY REGARDED AS THEIR MOST ACCESSIBLE YET. THEY'RE SOON TO TOUR BRITAIN WITH THE SUNDAYS. THEIR CARD TRICKS ARE CRAP. DAVID ...
Tindersticks: Live at The Botanique, Brussels
Live Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
AH, EUROPE. Given the increasingly infantile world of Anglo-American rock and pop culture, it's heartening to know there are giant pockets of pre-post-modern, un-ironic reverentiality ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 1998
Test card music for the Gods. Band at vanguard of American 'post-rock' developments ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
Trip hop supremo Adrian Thawes returns, restored to health, and helped by guests Cyndi Lauper and Red Hot Chili Peppers ...
Max Tundra - Whizz-kid to watch
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2000
"WHEN I was growing up, I'd go through my mum's record collection –things like 10cc, Nik Kershaw – and make these mixes on a tape ...
Twilight Singers, The, Afghan Whigs: The Twlight Singers: Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
SIDE PROJECT from The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, featuring Fila Brasilia and Pigeonhed's Shawn Smith ...
Underworld: A Hundred Days Off (JBO) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2002
FIRST ALBUM by electronic dance act now a duo since departure of Darren Emerson ...
Who, The: The Who: The Who Sell Out
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997
Tommy and Quodrophenia were louder and longer, but the psychedelic pop irony of this 1967 album remains Pete Townshend's masterpiece ...
Stevie Wonder: The Electrification Of Soul
Overview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
"THERE'S NEVER BEEN a time when Stevie Wonder hasn't been relevant," said an associate of Wonder's on Channel 4's recent Top 10 Seventies Soul run-down. ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1997
ROBERT WYATT'S career has meandered long and strange, like an underground driver. He's played alongside Hendrix, Mike Oldfield and Phil Manzanera, as well as avant-garde ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997
YELLO HAVE been into electronica since their inception in 1980, when only the most wilfully avant-garde dabbled in synthesisers for any purpose other than the ...
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2001
"PEOPLE ASSOCIATE us with groups like Lemon Jelly and ask, 'Is there a scene? Where do you all hang out together?' We've heard maybe one ...
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The American Song-Poem Anthology: Music By The Metre
Review by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, June 2003
SO YOU THINK it's only since the rise of manufactured pop, with its endless boy and girl bands, each a more faded and insipid photocopy ...
The Tube: Sound Of The Underground
Essay by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, May 2005
THE RELEASE OF the first series of The Tube on DVD is a chance to give kudos to a groundbreaking programme that naively but bravely ...
Profile by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, November 2005
YOU'D IMAGINE THE minimal and portentous name 4AD, with its arcane, spiritual overtones (4AD is the year many historians believe Christ was actually born), to ...
Essay by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, August 2003
ON JULY 3, the House Of Lords failed to block government moves to introduce a new law requiring pubs, clubs and cafes to apply for ...
Essay by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, October 2004
THE ONE AND Only, a hardback celebration of one-hit wonders by Tom Bromley, is a touch too self-satisfied a stocking filler, inviting us, not for ...
Essay by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, January 2003
THE NEWS THAT the Vines have been sent back to Australia, following a bout of Ricky Gervais/Grant Bovey-style pat-a-cakes onstage between singer Craig Nicholls and ...
Xmas LPs: Worst Christmas On Record
Essay by David Stubbs, Guardian, The, December 2004
THE CHRISTMAS SINGLE is a thing of thudding familiarity - brace yourself again for Jona Lewie to make his annual re-emergence, bludgeoning you like a ...
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