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Today's Top 10 Articles

  1. Bitter Sweet
    Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 1972
  2. Little Feat, Big Future
    Profile by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 1973
  3. Reggae
    Report and Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 1971
  4. Lady’s Day: Lilith Fair
    Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, 1998
  5. A Conversation with Phil Lesh
    Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, 1974
  6. Nico, the Lonely Chanteuse
    Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1970
  7. Whip In My Valise: Adam and the Ants
    Comment by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 1977
  8. Brummels "Killed" By Health, Draft Board
    Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 1966
  9. The lost world of the music weekly: Why NME was the last of an extinct species
    Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 2018
  10. Dr. Dre: 10 Reasons Not To Forget About Dre
    Comment by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 2000

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Mark Plummer reports on the rise of reggae in the UK (Melody Maker, 1971)

Mark Plummer hears a bitter plea to be "taken seriously" by Sweet singer Brian Connolly (Melody Maker, 1972)

Mark Plummer introduces UK readers to the funky charms of Little Feat (Melody Maker, 1973)

Chris Campion introduces androgynous Afro-futurist android Janelle Monáe (Observer, The, 2009)

John Calvert analyses "Archandroid" Janelle Monáe (Quietus, The, 2010)

Geoffrey Himes is guided through the sci-fi-soul universe of Janelle Monáe (Paste, 2013)

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Adam Sweeting hears all about Velvet Revolver (and Guns N' Roses) from Slash (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2007)

Features and interviews:

June Harris discusses fishin', shootin' 'n' ridin' with bruvver Joe Brown (Disc, 1963)

Richard Green reports on Alan Price's split from the Animals (Record Mirror, 1965)

The Beat reports on the trials and tribulations of the Beau Brummels (KRLA Beat, 1966)

Alan Smith updates us on all things Tamla Motown (New Musical Express, 1967)

Mike Gormley chats with 'Young Girl' hitmakers Gary Puckett & the Union Gap (Ottawa Journal, The, 1968)

Richard Williams hears about the post-Velvet-Underground life of Nico (Melody Maker, 1970)

Lon Goddard goes deep with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (Record Mirror, 1972)

Jerry Gilbert gets on the transatlantic blower to Art Garfunkel (Sounds, 1974)

Dave Marsh reports on the X-rated lyrics of, among others, Clarence "Blowfly" Reid (Rolling Stone, 1976)

Brian Case meets tuba-player-to-the-stars Howard Johnson (New Musical Express, 1978)

Don Waller reports on nouveau doo-woppers 14 Karat Soul, stars of Lee Breuer's off-Broadway musical Sister Suzie Cinema (New York Rocker, 1980)

Jon Young chats with rockabilly revivalists the Stray Cats (Trouser Press, 1982)

Richard Cook meets "Identikit Pop" purveyors Nik Kershaw and Howard Jones (New Musical Express, 1984)

J.D. Considine quizzes Chic sticks-master Tony Thompson (Musician, 1986)

Michael Goldberg reports on the music industry's new payola scandal (Rolling Stone, 1988)

Simon Reynolds reports on the Warhol-themed Lou Reed/John Cale collaboration Songs For Drella (Observer, The, 1990)

Jeff Lorez digs the deep roots of Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (Blues & Soul, 1992)

David Quantick discusses Primal Scream and other subjects with ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons (New Musical Express, 1994)

Richard Cromelin breaks bread and discusses Odelay with Beck (Los Angeles Times, 1996)

Sheryl Garratt recalls the rise of Chicago's House sound (Face, The, 1998)

Jim Sullivan mines the soul of The The's Matt Johnson (Boston Globe, The, 2000)

The late Richard Cook reminisces about a lifetime's record collecting (Wire, The, 2002)

Michael A. Gonzales meets New York R&B prodigy Alicia Keys (XXL Hip Hop Soul, 2004)

Andria Lisle reports on a new Memphis edition of Arthur Lee's Love (MOJO, 2006)

Robert Sandall talks Rhythm Kings and Rolling Stones with Bill Wyman (Daily Telegraph, 2008)

Sean O'Hagan pays tribute to "rock's father of invention", the inimitable Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet (Observer, The, 2010)

Paul Lester discusses Key to the Cuffs with London-born hip hop enigma (MF) Doom (Guardian, The, 2012)

Juliette Jagger looks back on the "sweaty, sarcastic sexual tension" of Death From Above 1979's "monster debut" album (Noisey, 2014)

Rob Hughes gets up to date with the reliably polymathic Brian Eno (Daily Telegraph, 2016)

Geoffrey Himes on the guitar-free "rock 'n' roll" of LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire and St. Vincent (Paste, 2017)

Stuart Maconie on the extinction of the weekly music press and the demise of the NME (New Statesman, 2018)

Album & Live Reviews:

The Maker appraises two albums by "child prodigy" "Little" Stevie Wonder (Melody Maker, 1963)

John Mendelsohn catches headliner Lee Michaels and support act Big Mama Thornton, live at Pasadena's Rose Palace (Los Angeles Times, 1969)

Richard Green reviews the eponymous Edgar Broughton Band (New Musical Express, 1971)

Chris Charlesworth enjoys Jackson Browne, live at L.A.'s Roxy (Melody Maker, 1973)

Nick Tosches welcomes Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger (Creem, 1975)

Jane Suck sees Johnny Thunders and Siouxsie Sioux at London's Music Machine (Sounds, 1977)

Richard Cromelin effusively praises Talking Heads' Fear Of Music (Los Angeles Times, 1979)

Paul Morley sees hip funkateers Stimulin, live at London's Moonlight Club (New Musical Express, 1981)

J.D. Considine plays George Clinton's Computer Games (Musician, 1983)

Brian Case awards the Golden Beret to the Charlie Watts Big Band, live at Ronnie Scott's (Melody Maker, 1985)

Jack Barron checks out "official bootlegs" by Big Black and Head of David (Sounds, 1987)

Dele Fadele attends a Brixton rave interrupted by Kym Mazelle (New Musical Express, 1989)

Mark Rowland loves a career-spanning box set from Tony Bennett (Musician, 1991)

Jim Sullivan catches a Boston date on Mac man Lindsey Buckingham's first-ever solo tour (Boston Globe, The, 1993)

David Bennun takes a hatchet to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's E. 1999 Eternal (Melody Maker, 1995)

Caroline Sullivan watches Oasis, live at Exeter's Westpoint Arena (Guardian, The, 1997)

Keith Cameron mulls over an album by EastEnders star Martine McCutcheon (New Musical Express, 1999)

Ben Thompson welcomes the solo debut by fomer Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus (MOJO, 2001)

Mark Paytress revisits the classic first (and ultra-dull second) album by Television (MOJO, 2003)

Rob Young is electrified by Congolese troupe Konono No. 1 (Wire, The, 2005)

Kate Mossman's spirits are lifted by the hybrid Americana of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand (Word, The, 2007)

Mark Kemp considers the "heartland rock and brooding weepers" of former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell's Lightning Rod (Rolling Stone, 2009)

Tom Doyle soars with the debut album by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (Q, 2011)

Mark Mordue is mesmerised by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' Push the Sky Away (Monthly, The, 2013)

Andrew Mueller lauds the "lost album" by Carole King's old band The City (Uncut, 2015)

Today's Top 10 Articles

  1. Bitter Sweet
    Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 1972
  2. Little Feat, Big Future
    Profile by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 1973
  3. Reggae
    Report and Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 1971
  4. Lady’s Day: Lilith Fair
    Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, 1998
  5. A Conversation with Phil Lesh
    Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, 1974
  6. Nico, the Lonely Chanteuse
    Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1970
  7. Whip In My Valise: Adam and the Ants
    Comment by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 1977
  8. Brummels "Killed" By Health, Draft Board
    Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 1966
  9. The lost world of the music weekly: Why NME was the last of an extinct species
    Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 2018
  10. Dr. Dre: 10 Reasons Not To Forget About Dre
    Comment by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 2000

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