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Steven Daly hears about Manchester, Factory and the Haçienda from all four members of New Order (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1993)
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Features and interviews
Nikki Wine rides in "space" with the Beatles (KRLA Beat, 1965)
Penny Valentine meets the Manfreds' Mike D'Abo (Disc and Music Echo, 1966)
Alan Smith interviews top-hat 'n' cane man Frankie Vaughan (New Musical Express, 1967)
Royston Eldridge buttonholes Love Sculpture's Dave Edmunds (Melody Maker, 1969)
Lillian Roxon meets Ms. Travers, the female third of folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary (Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1971)
Another "new Dylan"? John Swenson meets Elliott Murphy (Village Voice, The, 1973)
Ed Jones investigates the truth behind rock's tax exiles (Melody Maker, 1975)
Philip Elwood converses with ageing crooner Bing Crosby (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1977)
David Hepworth survives a tricky encounter with the "mild bunch" that is Dire Straits (Sounds, 1979)
Chris Welch heads to Massachusetts to observe the Rolling Stones' preparations for their upcoming U.S. tour (Record Mirror, 1981)
Betty Page meets daft chart-toppers Kajagoogoo (Record Mirror, 1983)
Richard Grabel grabs a chat with Minneapolitan reprobates the Replacements (New Musical Express, 1985)
Richard Cromelin talks turkey with the BoDeans (Los Angeles Times, 1987)
Everett True on the return of Edwyn Collins (Melody Maker, 1989)
Tom Doyle on the unmasking of Milli Vanilli (Smash Hits, 1991)
Caroline Sullivan talks to Belly's Tanya Donelly (Guardian, The, 1993)
Michael Azerrad meets "low-fi Svengali" Stephin Merritt (Rolling Stone, 1995)
Michael Simmons meets MC5 veteran Wayne Kramer (LA Weekly, 1997)
Paul Gorman meets London's couturier-to-the-stars Lloyd Johnson (MOJO, 1999)
Will Hermes profiles the "Phish x Primus + Police" supergroup that is Oysterhead (Spin, 2001)
Stephen Dalton on the mythical status of electronica pioneers Kraftwerk (Times, The, 2003)
Alan Clayson's obituary for country veteran Martha Carson (Guardian, The, 2005)
Steve Pafford and Richard Smith bag "the frankest interview ever given" by George Michael (GAY TIMES, 2007)
Sheryl Garratt flies to New York to interview Yoko Ono in her Dakota apartment (Daily Telegraph, 2009)
Kieron Tyler looks back at the making of Thunderclap Newman's one-hit No. 1 'Something in the Air' (MOJO '60s, 2011)
Peter Stone Brown mourns the passing of country's ol' possum George Jones (CounterPunch, 2013)
Jim Sullivan in telephonic conversation with "silver-haired soprano" Judy Collins (Cape Cod Times, 2015)
Alan Clayson conjectures as to the future of disgraced glam godfather Gary Glitter's future (unpublished, 2017)
Adam Sweeting marks the passing of L.A. session stalwart turned solo soul star James Ingram (Guardian, The, 2019)
Album & Live Reviews
Philip Elwood listens to bluegrass duo Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, live at San Francisco's hungry i club (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1968)
Richard Green hears Hank Williams, Jr.'s Live At Cobo Hall (New Musical Express, 1970)
"A star is born": Lillian Roxon witnesses a New York debut by David Bowie (New York Daily News, 1972)
Gary Lucas welcomes the Kinks' Preservation, Act I (Zoo World, 1974)
Giovanni Dadomo applauds a theatrical performance by Kevin Coyne (Sounds, 1976)
Paul Sexton struts to the sound of Sylvester's Step II (Record Mirror, 1978)
Richard Williams reviews the new and expanded version of Talking Heads, live at London's Hammersmith Palais (Times, The, 1980)
Richard Cook leafs through the book of Killing Joke's Revelations (New Musical Express, 1982)
Barney Hoskyns testifies to the gospel power of the Clark Sisters, live at London's Dominion (Guardian, The, 1984)
Stuart Bailie wigs out to Stump's Quirk Out (Record Mirror, 1986)
Tom Doyle details a spectacular show by Michael Jackson, live in Paris' Parc des Princes (Smash Hits, 1988)
Jack Barron wades through Anthrax's Persistence Of Time (New Musical Express, 1990)
Jim Sullivan opts not to mosh to the sound of Pearl Jam, live at Boston's Axis (Boston Globe, The, 1992)
Chuck Eddy fails to read Ace Of Base's The Sign (LA Weekly, 1994)
Andy Crysell sees Super Furry Animals, live at London's Astoria (New Musical Express, 1996)
Amy Linden welcomes hip hop classic The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Source, The, 1998)
Kodwo Eshun explores the polyrhythms of the Dylan Group's Ur-klang Search (Wire, The, 2000)
Adam Sweeting sees Pete "Wah!" Wylie's Dead Men Walking, live in Camden (Guardian, The, 2002)
Chris Roberts is suitably roused by Josh Rouse, live at London's Bush Hall (Uncut, 2004)
Mark Mordue's bones leave his body as he listens to Bob Dylan's Modern Times (Neumu, 2006)
Andrew Mueller considers Ryan Adams & the Cardinals' Cardinology (Uncut, 2008)
Simon Price sees Italo-Caledonian singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini, live at London's Royal Albert Hall (Independent on Sunday, 2010)
John Calvert hears the music from the Big Pink's Future This (Quietus, The, 2012)
Dave Simpson sees prog-metal masters Dream Theater, live at Manchester's Apollo (Guardian, The, 2014)
Jamie Atkins is appropriately overawed by Simon Reynolds glam-rock opus Shock & Awe (Record Collector, 2016)
Stephen Dalton is impressed by veteran electronicists Orbital, live at Bristol's O2 Academy (Times, The, 2018)
Dave Simpson witnesses some "genre rampage" from self-doubting showman Jamie Cullum, live at York's Barbican (Guardian, The, 2020)
