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Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series, Volume One — The Quine Tapes

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001

Audience recordings of rare live gigs from 1969 ...

Mick Farren: Devout Deviant Takes A Trip Down Memory Lane

Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, 7 December 2001

Mick Farren: Give the Anarchist a Cigarette ...

Dictators, The: The Dictators: live at El Sol, Madrid 24th November

Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, 15 December 2001

HEY ANDY SHERNOFF! You tell us that your generation ain't the salvation of this R'n'R beastie but I beg to differ. ...

Dirtbombs, The: The Dirtbombs: Highbury Garage, London

Live Review by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 15 December 2001

Motor City demons show a whole lotta soul. ...

Kid Rock: Like a Motown Cowboy

Comment by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 18 December 2001

TWO GUYS MARCH into the Victor Recording Company office one summer day in 1922, mad flossing all the way: one dressed like a cowboy, the ...

Radio Birdman, The Saints: Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-87 (Shock)

Sleevenotes by Dave Laing (Australia), Shock, 2002

Come on baby it's time to moveYou been saying there's nothing to doDon't be afraid of bustin' out of your cageGonna cruise around gonna burn ...

Slade

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Chapman, unpublished, 2002

LET'S PLAY how to be hip. The rules go something like this. MC5 plus gritty urban Detroit plus White Panther polemic equals street cred and ...

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The True Life Adventures Of Flash

Sleeve and programme notes by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Nuphonic Records, 2002

Chapter 1 FLASH ISN’T THE type of guy to start talking about "How it feels...", but that’s just what you want to ask him. How does ...

Mission of Burma: Burmese Days

Retrospective and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, 11 January 2002

MEMORIES OF THE MISSION: Roger and Clint back in the days when ‘Academy Fight Song’ and ‘That's When I Reach for My Revolver’ blared out ...

The Hives: The Junction, Cambridge

Live Review by Tom Cox, The Observer, 10 February 2002

The Hives put on a fine imitation of garage rock. And the garage is where it would be best appreciated ...

Hives, The: The Hives: Junction, Cambridge

Live Review by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 10 February 2002

The Hives put on a fine imitation of garage rock. And the garage is where it would be best appreciated ...

Clinic: The Only British Band Which Matters

Interview by Joss Hutton, Perfect Sound Forever, March 2002

LIVERPUDLIAN quartet Clinic may be blessed with consummate good taste – pictures of the likes of Roky Erickson, Serge Gainsbourg, Phil and Ronnie Spector, Silver ...

The Hives

Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2002

STROKES? STRIPES? Fougeddabouddit! The swedes rock loudest. ...

Human League, The, Soft Cell: Bill Board: Recreating the '80s

Column by Bill Brewster, Jockey Slut, April 2002

Loving the '80s is one thing, says Bill Brewster. Recreating it quite another... ...

BellRays, The: The BellRays: Rocket, Leeds

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 4 April 2002

TWO YEARS AGO in this newspaper, Alan McGee decried the "bedwetters" of modern pop. Where, he asked, were "the characters" and "the great rock'n'roll music ...

Lester Bangs: Pills And Thrills

Retrospective by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 12 April 2002

ALTHOUGH HIS NAME is already starting to be listed among the ranks of the elite late 20th-century literary trailblazers, Lester Bangs – the fragile-hearted, drunken ...

Give Up The Day Job!: Scribes turned Stars, Poachers Turned Gamekeepers!

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 12 April 2002

This week, a propos of nothing in particular – the new Pet Shop Boys album, perhaps? – we consider the careers of the many ...

The Stone Roses

Retrospective and Interview by John McCready, MOJO, May 2002

ON FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1987, the greatest rock'n'roll band of the decade are playing to no more than 30 people at Planet X, a dark ...

BellRays, The: The BellRays: Maximum Rock 'N' Roll

Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 11 May 2002

Praying for gasoline-fuelled garage punk fired-up with Truth and Attitude? The Bellrays might just be here to save you... ...

Larry Wallis, The Pink Fairies: Larry Wallis: I Thought You Were Dead

Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2002

ONCE LABELLED "Hank Marvin on acid", Wallis was vocalist/guitarist in seminal UK space-rockers the Pink Fairies, penning 1973's classic Kings Of Oblivion. ...