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Today's Top 10 Articles

  1. Suede: Underworld, Camden, London
    Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 1992
  2. The British Aren't Coming
    Report by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 1995
  3. Suede: Who Loves A Lad In Suede?
    Report and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, 1993
  4. George Martin, Paul McCartney & Wings: Live and Let Die (soundtrack, United Artists)
    Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 1973
  5. Tony Joe White (1977)
    Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1977
  6. For Those About To Yawn: AC/DC: For Those About To Rock (Atlantic K50851) ***
    Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 1981
  7. Andrew Loog Oldham: Mr. Sharpie
    Interview by Jon Tiven, Sounds, 1972
  8. Mark E. Smith: An Interview
    Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, 2006
  9. The Clash: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
    Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 1980
  10. The Jeff Beck Group: Beck-Ola (Columbia SCX 6351 stereo)
    Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 1969

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Phil Bell sorta salutes AC/DC's For Those About To Rock (Sounds, 1981)

Phil Bell meets Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell (Sounds, 1981)

Phil Bell sits in on a Tiswas taping with Steve Harris and Iron Maiden's new frontman Bruce Dickinson (Sounds, 1982)

Ian Watson travels to Camden to see the "outrageously beautiful" Suede (Melody Maker, 1992)

Max Bell "delves behind the hype" surrounding Suede (Vox, 1993)

David Sinclair asks Brett Anderson and others why Britpop doesn't translate into American (Rolling Stone, 1995)

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Audio:

Cliff White (no relation) chats with laid-back swamp rat Tony Joe White (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1977)

Features and interviews:

Shakin' all over: Norman Jopling reports on the wild men of British R&B (Record Mirror, 1962)

Maureen Cleave meets the man behind the Chipmunks (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1964)

Loraine Alterman hears about the titanic 'Stay With Me' from soul singer Lorraine Ellison (Detroit Free Press, 1966)

Dawn James sits down with the Spencer Davis Group's Stevie Winwood (Rave, 1967)

Alan Smith hears a heartfelt tribute to Otis Redding from Arthur Conley (New Musical Express, 1968)

Mike Gormley elicits the trenchant opinions of Freda Payne (Detroit Free Press, 1970)

Jon Tiven meets former Stones manager/Immediate Records boss Andrew Loog Oldham (Sounds, 1972)

Connor McKnight's prescient profile of doomed folkie Nick Drake (ZigZag, 1974)

Robert Duncan visits Philadelphia to interview ZZ Top (Creem, 1976)

Nick Kent sits in a cloud of "charge" smoke with punk-poet John Cooper Clarke (New Musical Express, 1978)

David Hepworth converses with the Clash's Joe Strummer (Smash Hits, 1980)

Don Waller meets Motown veteran Junior Walker (Los Angeles Times, 1982)

Brian Case shares a drink (or three) with the great Gil Evans (Melody Maker, 1984)

Sylvie Simmons discusses exploding codpieces with W.A.S.P.'s Blackie Lawless (Kerrang!, 1986)

Tom Hibbert is treated to rather too much info from T'Pau's Carol Decker (Q, 1988)

Mark Cooper reports on hip hop's new Afrocentrism (Guardian, The, 1990)

An Irishman in New York: Michael Azerrad meets Christy Moore's younger brother Luka Bloom (Rolling Stone, 1992)

Martin Aston tracks down the models from Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love' video (Details, 1994)

Bethan Cole on the redemption of hip hopper Coolio (i-D, 1996)

Paul Elliott swaps bon mots with Brits-in-the-US Spacehog (Kerrang!, 1998)

Holly George-Warren puts the questions to Tom Petty (Oxford American, 2000)

Marc Weingarten talks hip hop and politics with the Coup's Boots Riley (Los Angeles Times, 2002)

Tim Cooper talks to "Sene-rap" stars Daara J (Independent, The, 2004)

Mark Paytress meets the ever-unpredictable Mark E. Smith (MOJO, 2006)

Bob Ruggiero discusses Blue Cheer's What Doesn't Kill You... with the soon-to-die Dickie Peterson (Houston Press, 2008)

Andrew Mueller discusses It Might Get Loud and more with Jimmy Page (Uncut, 2010)

After decades of writing them, Ira Robbins ponders the value of record reviews (Rock's Backpages, 2012)

Vivien Goldman on the "secret history" of the UK's "punky Jews" (Guardian, The, 2014)

Dorian Lynskey protests the closure of London's Fabric club (Guardian, The, 2016)

Geoffrey Himes reports on David Bromberg's Big Noise Festival (Paste, 2018)

Album & Live Reviews:

Max Jones heads down to Portsmouth to listen to jazz genius Duke Ellington (Melody Maker, 1967)

"A good unpretentious album": the Mirror checks out the Jeff Beck Group's Beck-Ola (Record Mirror, 1969)

Ian Dove is deeply impressed by "the controlled, emotional soul singing" of Aretha Franklin, live at Madison Square Garden (Billboard, 1971)

Great title song, very dull album: Paul Gambaccini on the soundtrack to James Bond film Live and Let Die (Rolling Stone, 1973)

Chris Charlesworth is enthralled by Bruce Springsteen, live at the Westbury Music Fair (Melody Maker, 1975)

Davitt Sigerson samples Johnny Bristol's Bristol's Crème (Black Music, 1977)

Richard Cromelin attends an all-star tribute to Little Feat's recently-deceased Lowell George (Los Angeles Times, 1979)

Chas de Whalley submits to the Return of the Giant Slits (Record Mirror, 1981)

Mat Snow adores nouveau doo-woppers 14 Karat Soul, live at London's Brixton Fridge (New Musical Express, 1983)

Empty sloganeering: Rob Tannenbaum savages the Style Council's Internationalists (Musician, 1985)

Hugh Fielder enjoys Terence Trent D'Arby, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Sounds, 1987)

Lloyd Bradley is curiously polite about Milli Vanilli's 2X2 (Q, 1989)

Paul Lester is astonished by Kraftwerk, live at Glasgow's Barrowlands (Melody Maker, 1991)

Max Bell clambers aboard Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad (Vox, 1993)

Caroline Sullivan sees Barry White seducing London's Wembley Arena (Guardian, The, 1995)

Mac Randall shines a light on Pavement's Brighten the Corners (Musician, 1997)

Marc Weingarten enjoys the "live" hip hop of the Roots at L.A.'s House of Blues (Los Angeles Times, 1999)

Sylvie Simmons eases into Bonnie "Prince" Billy's Ease Down The Road (MOJO, 2001)

Phil Sutcliffe reviews Rickie Lee Jones' Evening Of My Best Day (MOJO, 2003)

Charles Shaar Murray considers Nik Cohn's memoir about New Orleans rap (Independent, The, 2005)

Andy Gill navigates his way through the anthology that is Nico's Frozen Borderline (Uncut, 2007)

Adam Sweeting salutes Dixie Chicken, the third album by Little Feat (Uncut, 2009)

Carol Cooper cavorts to Boogaloo at New York's Nublu (Village Voice, The, 2011)

Nicky Charlish attends the V&A's David Bowie exhibition (Culture Wars, 2013)

Jon Young enjoys the "raucous roots" rock of Flat Duo Jets' Wild Wild Love (Mother Jones, 2017)

Today's Top 10 Articles

  1. Suede: Underworld, Camden, London
    Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 1992
  2. The British Aren't Coming
    Report by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 1995
  3. Suede: Who Loves A Lad In Suede?
    Report and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, 1993
  4. George Martin, Paul McCartney & Wings: Live and Let Die (soundtrack, United Artists)
    Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 1973
  5. Tony Joe White (1977)
    Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1977
  6. For Those About To Yawn: AC/DC: For Those About To Rock (Atlantic K50851) ***
    Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 1981
  7. Andrew Loog Oldham: Mr. Sharpie
    Interview by Jon Tiven, Sounds, 1972
  8. Mark E. Smith: An Interview
    Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, 2006
  9. The Clash: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
    Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 1980
  10. The Jeff Beck Group: Beck-Ola (Columbia SCX 6351 stereo)
    Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 1969

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