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Today's Top 10 Articles

  1. Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
    Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, 1975
  2. No One Else Could Play That Tune: An Introduction
    Book Excerpt by Clinton Heylin, 'No One Else Could Play That Tune' (Route), 2018
  3. Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks: A Critic's Obsession
    Essay by Andy Gill, Independent, The, 2004
  4. Bruce Springsteen: Not The Me-Me-Me-Me
    Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 1981
  5. Oasis: C'mon America...Let's Ave Yer! Seven Mental Nights On The Oasis Tourbus
    Report by Paolo Hewitt, Select, 1996
  6. A Brief Survey Of The State Of Metal Music Today
    Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, 1973
  7. The Clash: Eighteen Flight Rock...
    Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 1976
  8. Rock Against Racism Carnival: Victoria Park, Hackney, London
    Report by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 1978
  9. Beatles in TV Controversy
    Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 1968
  10. Jimi Hendrix #1
    Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, 1969

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Cliff White talks hits, Miracles and Motown with Smokey Robinson (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1977)

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Features and interviews

Ian Dove tracks down exiled rocker Vince Taylor in Belgium (Record Mirror, 1962)

Billboard hears trenchant criticism of the music business from Nat "King" Cole (Billboard, 1964)

Dawn James hears the musings of the Yardbirds... with "new lead" Jeff Beck (Rave, 1965)

Loraine Alterman interviews Detroit R&B radio DJ Martha Jean "the Queen" Steinberg (Detroit Free Press, 1966)

Tony Barrow reports on the mixed critical response to the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (KRLA Beat, 1968)

Max Jones receives a lesson in blues (and slide guitar) from Mississippi veteran Son House (Melody Maker, 1970)

From Oddity to Ziggy, Nick Kent charts the career of David Bowie (Friends/Frendz, 1972)

Martin Hayman converses with producer and Shelter Records boss Denny Cordell (Sounds, 1974)

Vernon Gibbs relfects on the Harold Melvin/Teddy Pendergrass split (Village Voice, The, 1976)

Joel Selvin is mystified by ABBA's lack of U.S. success to date (San Francisco Chronicle, 1978)

Five months after Ian Curtis' suicide, Penny Valentine reports on Joy Division... and the rise of the UK's indie labels (Creem, 1980)

Richard Grabel talks Talking Heads and On Land with Brian Eno (New Musical Express, 1982)

Chris Roberts chats with electro siren Shannon (Sounds, 1984)

Don Waller meets Sweet Soul Music author Peter Guralnick (Los Angeles Times, 1986)

Rob Tannenbaum meets George Michael (Musician, 1988)

John Robb is deeelighted to meet Deee-Lite (Sounds, 1990)

David Quantick heads for Swindon to meet professional eccentrics XTC (Vox, 1992)

Tim Page's fascinating guide to the Minimalist school of Steve Reich, Terry Riley and friends (Details, 1994)

Steffan Chirazi meets Marilyn Manson in Cleveland (Kerrang!, 1996)

Sylvie Simmons pays tribute to the Plasmastics' "punk dominatrix" Wendy O. Williams (MOJO, 1998)

Carol Cooper remembers legendary hip hop club Disco Fever (unpublished, 2000)

Marc Weingarten gives us the lowdown on Tom Waits' pal Chuck E. Weiss (Los Angeles Times, 2002)

James Medd reports on the pain behind the documentary Ramones: End of the Century (Esquire, 2004)

Tim Cooper meets politicised U.S. superstar Dave Matthews (Independent, The, 2006)

Bob Ruggiero phones Bucharest to discuss Nostradamus with Judas Priest's Rob Halford (Houston Press, 2008)

Nick Hasted revisits the making of Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain' (Uncut, 2010)

Richie Unterberger sleevenotes for a Real Gone reissue of soap star Rick Springfield's 1972 album Beginnings (Real Gone Music, 2012)

Bob Fisher's unpublished sleevenotes for the reissue of Bobby Womack's 1989 Solar album Save The Children (unpublished, 2014)

In the age of selfie-obsession, Lisa Verrico wonders what happened to political pop stars (Sunday Times, 2016)

Rob Tannenbaum's New York rendezous with Stephen Malkmus (New York Times, The, 2018)

Album & Live Reviews:

Nick Jones is disappointed by the Beach Boys, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Melody Maker, 1967)

Richard Green enjoys two volumes of country standards cut by Jerry Lee Lewis (New Musical Express, 1969)

Ian Dove catches an early live show by Bette Midler (Billboard, 1971)

Richard Williams largely approves of the Wattstax movie (Melody Maker, 1973)

Ken Barnes does the Strand to the sound of Roxy Music, live at the Santa Monica Civic (Phonograph Record, 1975)

Richard Riegel gazes into Styx's Crystal Ball (Creem, 1977)

David Hepworth is perplexed by the Mekons, live at London's Hope & Anchor (Sounds, 1979)

Richard Cromelin has little time for ELO's Time (Los Angeles Times, 1981)

Richard Grabel is thrilled by Prince, live at Radio City Music Hall (New Musical Express, 1983)

J.D. Considine reviews The Radio Tokyo Tapes, Vol. 3 and the new album by folk elder Dave Van Ronk (Musician, 1985)

Mat Snow catches Polish chanteuse Basia, live in London (Sounds, 1987)

Caroline Sullivan rates Bonnie Raitt's comeback classic Nick Of Time (Melody Maker, 1989)

Stephen Dalton is mostly mesmerised by the Orb, live at Brixton's Fridge (New Musical Express, 1991)

David Bennun surrenders to Ice-T's Home Invasion (Melody Maker, 1993)

Don Snowden sees qawwali King Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan live in Long Beach (Los Angeles Times, 1995)

John McCready isn't quite ready for Todd Terry's Ready For A New Day (MOJO, 1997)

Chris Roberts marvels at Mercury Rev, live in Cambridge (Uncut, 1999)

Jim Irvin talks to Marc Almond and reviews Soft Cell's Twelve Inch Singles box set (MOJO, 2001)

Dan Gennoe is untroubled (and unimpressed) by Macy Gray's third album The Trouble With Being Myself (dotmusic.co.uk, 2003)

Keith Cameron sees Texan trio Secret Machines, live at London's Barfly (MOJO, 2005)

Tony Burke enjoys a documentary about obsessive vintage-record collector Joe Bussard (Blues & Rhythm, 2007)

Paul Moody hears the second album by "Staines Asbo Rockers" Hard-Fi (Uncut, 2009)

James Medd is shaken and stirred by the charged politics of PJ Harvey's Let England Shake (Word, The, 2011)

Dave Simpson is gripped by the Newcastle Arena date on Girls Aloud's reunion tour (Guardian, The, 2013)

Laura Barton is wowed by Jane Weaver, live in Ramsgate (Guardian, The, 2017)

Today's Top 10 Articles

  1. Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
    Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, 1975
  2. No One Else Could Play That Tune: An Introduction
    Book Excerpt by Clinton Heylin, 'No One Else Could Play That Tune' (Route), 2018
  3. Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks: A Critic's Obsession
    Essay by Andy Gill, Independent, The, 2004
  4. Bruce Springsteen: Not The Me-Me-Me-Me
    Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 1981
  5. Oasis: C'mon America...Let's Ave Yer! Seven Mental Nights On The Oasis Tourbus
    Report by Paolo Hewitt, Select, 1996
  6. A Brief Survey Of The State Of Metal Music Today
    Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, 1973
  7. The Clash: Eighteen Flight Rock...
    Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 1976
  8. Rock Against Racism Carnival: Victoria Park, Hackney, London
    Report by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 1978
  9. Beatles in TV Controversy
    Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 1968
  10. Jimi Hendrix #1
    Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, 1969

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