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Audio Interview
Tony Scherman moderates a long conversation between New Orleans legends Earl Palmer, Alvin "Red" Tyler and Dave Bartholomew (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1997)
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Features and interviews
Ian Dove tries on the Swinging Blue Jeans (New Musical Express, 1963)
Rave gets the lowdown on the Rolling Stones (Rave, 1964)
Nick Jones meets Alan Price's replacement in the Animals (Melody Maker, 1965)
Norman Jopling recaps on the career-to-date of Otis Redding (Record Mirror, 1966)
Alan Smith meets 'Harper Valley PTA' hitmaker Jeannie C. Riley (New Musical Express, 1968)
A circus act? The Maker reports on Funkadelic's ban by London's Lyceum theatre (Melody Maker, 1971)
Roy Carr visits Wandsworth prison with "up'n coming pub band" Ace (New Musical Express, 1973)
Harry Doherty talks hits with Hot Chocolate's Errol Brown (Melody Maker, 1975)
Susin Shapiro talks up power-pop dude Dwight Twilley (Village Voice, The, 1977)
Sandy Robertson hears the Cramps' tales from the crypt (Sounds, 1979)
Pete Silverton meets a frazzled Bad Manners (Smash Hits, 1981)
Richard Cromelin elicits the usual blather from Malcolm McLaren (Los Angeles Times, 1983)
Michael Goldberg reports on another chapter in the legal saga of John Fogerty vs. Saul Zaentz (Rolling Stone, 1985)
Hugh Fielder talks to T'Pau's flame-haired frontwoman Carol Decker (Sounds, 1987)
Paolo Hewitt talks Farrakhan and more with "conscious rappers" the Jungle Brothers (New Musical Express, 1989)
Cliff Jones learns about the complex recording of Laughing Stock from Talk Talk's Mark Hollis (Melody Maker, 1991)
Caroline Sullivan reports on (amongst other things) the launch of MOJO magazine (Guardian, The, 1993)
Tony Scherman talks to doomed Texan troubadour Chris Whitley (New York Times, The, 1995)
Jim Sullivan discusses Odelay with "the artist currently known" as Beck (Boston Globe, The, 1997)
Steven Daly looks at the industry behind rising pop superstar Britney Spears (Rolling Stone, 1999)
Dave Laing and Phil Hardy on melodic metal maniacs Def Leppard ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Gavin Martin catches up with Kevin Coyne (Uncut, 2003)
Tim Cooper talks to former Matchbox 20 man Rob Thomas (Independent, The, 2005)
John Lewis discusses Hayseed Dixie with frontman and "comedy troubadour" John Wheeler (Hotline, 2009)
Jude Rogers discovers the favourite music, books and films of glam-rock goddess Suzi Quatro (Word, The, 2011)
John Lewis explores the improbable Masonic associations of jazz greats Sun Ra and Duke Ellington (Guardian, The, 2014)
Paul Lester reports on the enduring influence of soul poet and proto-rapper Gil Scott-Heron, four years after his death (Guardian, The, 2015)
Tim Cooper on the night he (almost) met Madonna (Evening Standard, The, 2017)
Barney Hoskyns' rejected liner notes for a reissue of the Doors' dreadful Soft Parade (unpublished, 2019)
Album & Live Reviews
Norman Jopling sees Donovan, live at London's Saville Theatre (Record Mirror, 1967)
Richard Green considers the Kinks' Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (New Musical Express, 1969)
Geoffrey Cannon's unpublished appreciation of Joni Mitchell, live at the Isle of Wight Festival (unpublished, 1970)
Roy Carr loves Al Green's Let's Stay Together (New Musical Express, 1972)
Richard Cromelin is riveted by Todd Rundgren, live at the Santa Monica Civic (Los Angeles Times, 1974)
Takin' their time: David Hepworth welcomes Warners Brothers' reissues of Bonnie Raitt's first three albums (New Musical Express, 1976)
Past his best: Pete Wingfield sees James Brown, live at London's Hammersmith Odeon (Melody Maker, 1978)
Phil Sutcliffe slays Alicia Bridges' Play It As It Lays (Sounds, 1980)
Richard Williams witnesses Barry Manilow, live at London's Albert Hall (Times, The, 1982)
Sean O'Hagan referees Two Giants Clash by Yellowman vs. Josey Wales (New Musical Express, 1984)
Adam Sweeting is convinced by an "intense and exhilarating" Keith Jarrett, live at the Royal Festival Hall (Guardian, The, 1986)
Andrew Smith is rather bored by Tom Tom Club's Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom (Melody Maker, 1988)
Steffan Chirazi is brüised by Mötley Crüe, live at the Oakland Coliseum (Kerrang!, 1990)
Betty Page struggles through Soul II Soul's Volume II Just Right (New Musical Express, 1992)
Ted Drozdowski sees "low rock" trio Morphine, live in their native Boston (Rolling Stone, 1994)
Caitlin Moran struggles to find herself in the Mike Flowers Pop's A Groovy Place (Melody Maker, 1996)
Marc Weingarten catches one of the last-ever shows by hip hop mavericks A Tribe Called Quest (Los Angeles Times, 1998)
Dave Simpson sees the notorious but "stupefyingly boring" ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, live in Leeds (Guardian, The, 2000)
Will Hermes weighs up Dennis McNally's long strange history of the Grateful Dead (New York Times, The, 2002)
Chris Ingham moves into the comfort of Norah Jones' Feels Like Home (MOJO, 2004)
Tom Cox is taken with the "sinister, retro-modern" folk of Tunng's Comments of the Inner Chorus (Guardian, The, 2006)
Robert Sandall reviews one of Prince's 21 nights at London's O2 Arena (Sunday Times, 2007)
Paul Moody praises Supergrass' Diamond Hoo Ha (Uncut, 2008)
Rob Young revists David Bowie's 1967 Deram debut (Uncut, 2010)
Pete Paphides tackles folk albums by Lucky Luke and Trembling Bells (Word, The, 2012)
Stephen Dalton reviews Nile Rodgers' new edition of Chic, live at London's Roundhouse (Times, The, 2015)
Rick Pearson catches a "road-weary" Courtney Marie Andrews, live in London (Evening Standard, The, 2018)
