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Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 29 August 1987
MATALLIC KO ...
Morrissey: Songs of Love and Hate, Part 2
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 19 March 1988
"Did that swift eclipse torture you?/A star at 18 and then – suddenly gone/down to a few lines in the back page/of a teenage annual/oh ...
Pixies, The: The Pixies: Speaking In Tongues
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 19 March 1988
THE HOLLERING IS ALL. The Pixies are what's left when all the frustrations and absences that once prompted rock'n'roll into being have faded away or ...
Fall, The: The Fall: "You Can't Knock It, Can You?"
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 23 December 1990
GIVEN HIS curmudgeonly image, you might expect Mark E. Smith to regard Christmas as a time to endure rather than enjoy. ...
Overview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 18 August 1991
SO VOLATILE is the club scene that few artists have been able to make a career out of dance music, which is released mostly as ...
Saint Etienne: St Etienne: Debut That's Alpha Oscar Kilo
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 20 October 1991
ON THEIR delightful debut album, Foxbase Alpha, St Etienne mix contemporary house rhythms with the string-swept melodrama of Sixties pop. Amazingly, the creators of this ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, 24 November 1991
NIRVANA'S VERTIGINOUS ascent to stardom has to be the years most surprising success story. The single Smells Like Teen Spirit has been in heavy rotation ...
Hole: Belting Out That Most Unfeminine Emotion
Interview by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, 9 February 1992
SUSAN FALUDI, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, said recently in a magazine interview that "anger is not something that's an ...
The Fall: The Infotainment Scan (Matador)
Review by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, 11 July 1993
THE FALL is one of Englands enduring cult bands. Formed in 1976 by the singer and lyricist Mark E. Smith, it evolved into one of ...
Comment by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 December 1993
TODAY'S ALTERNATIVE rock suffers from a strange kind of nostalgia — a yearning for a golden age that one never personally experienced. There's a term ...
Seal: A Conjurer Of Lush Grooves
Interview by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, 14 August 1994
What to call Seals blend of symphonic dance music and mystical lyrics? New Age funk? Progressive disco? Seal belongs to that strain of maverick, slightly ...
Elastica: Twang Twang, You're Cred!
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 25 March 1995
This week, ELASTICAs debut album has achieved the greatest double whammy of critical and commercial success since Parklife and Definitely Maybe, final proof that Britpops ...
Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky: Trip Hop: Another City, Another New Sound
Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 28 May 1995
POP GROUPS hate being identified as part of a scene centred on a city. But if there's one thing bands resent even more, it is ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 24 June 1995
"I had this psychic drawing done," says Tricky, sucking greedily on the first of the four joints he's to consume in the next hour. Behind ...
Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk: Trance: New Invader on the Dance Floor
Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 29 November 1998
THE ESPERANTO of electronic dance music, trance is probably the most popular rave sound in the world. Although this kinetic, hypnotic music has maintained a ...
Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk: Trance: New Invader on the Dance Floor
Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 29 November 1998
THE ESPERANTO of electronic dance music, trance is probably the most popular rave sound in the world. Although this kinetic, hypnotic music has maintained a ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED ...
Ms Dynamite, So Solid Crew, Streets, The: The Streets: The British Can't Rap, Haven't You Heard?
Overview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 20 October 2002
THE BRITISH have always had a flair for taking black American music, giving it a twist and then exporting it back, stylishly repackaged. Blues, R&B, ...
Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth/Collected Works
Sleeve and programme notes by Simon Reynolds, Domino Records, 2007
POSTPUNK AND "perfection" rarely went together. This was an era of experimental over-reach, of bands catalysed by the punk do-it-yourself principle attempting to expand the ...
Public Image Ltd: PiL: Heavy Metal
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Frieze, November 2007
As a new book on Public Image Ltd shows, the influence of their 1979 album Metal Box stretches far and wide ...
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