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Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 8 May 2011

Wondering who's going to emerge as the voice of 2011? Look no further than the Peckham Princess. ...

Profile by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 22 October 1971

DESPITE HAVING been one of Soul's leading acts for close on five years now, The Intruders have yet to make any serious impression on the ...

"Opry", 40, Shows No Sign Of Aging

Report by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 23 October 1965

Nashville Marking Event's Birthday on Joyous Note ...

Bob Dylan: Carnegie Hall, New York NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 28 October 1963

Folk Songs Draw Carnegie Cheers Bob Dylan Appears as an 'Angry Young' Recitalist ...

Marianne Faithfull: Put it down to my age, says Miss Faithfull

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964

MARIANNE FAITHFULL is a raving beauty of 17 who lives with her mother, the Baroness Erisso, in a small terraced house in Reading. She goes ...

Laura Nyro: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 January 1970

Poetess at the Piano Comes Back on Top ...

Streets, The: Street Life

Interview by Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, December 2001

Out of the garage and onto The Streets. Watch out, this boy makes bangers… ...

Paul Weller: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 26 May 2010

WITH WILD WOOD, in 1993, Paul Weller rediscovered his mojo just in time to soak up a few plaudits as Britpop's tribal elder. In snobbier ...

Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Guess Who, The: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: 'Let It Ride' In Overdrive

Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974

"WE PLAY all over the States and almost every radio station we run into has 'Let It Ride' being spun next to the Guess Who's ...

Joss Stone: Colour Me Free!

Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, 2 November 2009

A fans-only collection, but at least time’s firmly on her side ...

Junior Walker & the All Stars: Top Tunes: Junior Walker's 'Shotgun' Is His First Big Hit

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 27 February 1965

JUNIOR WALKER and the All Stars can thank a couple of teenagers from Benton Harbor, Mich., for the inspiration that's led to their first major ...

1975, The: The 1975: Notes on a Conditional Form

Review by Nick Hasted, The Arts Desk, 21 May 2020

The band's fourth album lunges for meaning with its monologue by Greta Thunberg and foresees social isolation. ...

Impressions, The: Top Tunes: The Impressions

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 7 November 1964

WHOEVER CAME up with the advertising slogan, "often imitated but never duplicated," must have been thinking about the Impressions. ...

Seeds, The: Top Tunes: The Seeds

Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 24 June 1967

"THE 'HATE march' days are over, now it's love and be loved and flower music expresses this emotion powerfully and beautifully," says Lord Tim Hudson, ...

The decade in pop

Comment by Pete Paphides, The Times, 21 December 2009

AS A SOURCE of theoretically endless music, the iPod — launched in 2001 — was an immaculately designed microcosm of the shift in our music ...

Sandpipers, The: The Sandpipers: Grads Graduate to Big Time

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1967

SUCH DIVERSE elements as a book on zoology, the Mitchell Boys Choir and a Spanish song all conjoined one day to produce one of the ...

Bush Tetras, The, E.S.G., Scritti Politti, Strokes, The: Various Artists: Yes New York/New York Noise/Post Punk 01

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2003

AH MANHATTAN, so much to answer for – and so in vogue as a rock metropolis after decades as a Hip Hop Mecca. Yes New ...

Libertines, The: The Libertines

Profile and Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, August 2002

Patriotic punk whelps. They're having a "giraffe". ...

Mugwumps, The: Top Tunes: The Mugwumps

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 24 October 1964

THEY MEET with "stunned silence" when performing before someone for the first time. They have their own language. A new dance has started because of ...

Beastie Boys, The: Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty (Grand Royal)

Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 3 July 1998

Sick of introspective rock? Pining for the time when hip-hop was fun? So are the Beastie Boys. Caroline Sullivan fights for her right to party ...