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MC5, The Stooges: MC5/Stooges: Panic in Detroit

Report by Mick Farren, NME, 14 December 1974

THOSE FUN lovers from the motor city, the Stooges and the MC5, are winding up for another rampage. Of course, we've heard tales like this ...

MC5: Babes In Arms (ROIR cassette)

Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 20 August 1983

IDEALLY VLADIMIR Mayakovsky should be sitting down to this review, because never before or since has there been a band quite like the MC5 – ...

MC5: Kramer Climbs Back From MC5 Wreckage

Report by Mick Farren, NME, 27 April 1974

NEW BAND AND A NEW IMAGE: Mick Farren in Detroit ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 4 June 1977

‘BROTHERS AND sisters...the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are going to be the problem or whether ...

MC5, Wayne Kramer: Wayne Kramer: Broke, Busted, Disgusted, Agents Can't Be Trusted

Interview by Max Bell, NME, 20 August 1977

Former MC5 guitarist WAYNE KRAMER live from Lexington Penitentiary, talks to MAX BELL about times past and time passing ...

The Ramones: Notes on Minimalism (or Learning To Live With The Ramones)

Essay by Mick Farren, NME, 21 May 1977

THERE'S BEEN A LOT of loose talk, and it has got to stop. Ever since The Ramones blundered into the blinding spotlight of international rock ...

The Bay City Rollers: The View From Seat A6

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 25 September 1976

"Then one day I found a perfect plan,I shake my ass and sing in a rock and roll band,From now on there'll be no compromisin'Rock ...

The Flamin' Groovies: Teenage Head

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 16 October 1976

I MUST confess that when I was first confronted with the Flamin' Groovies, I was not impressed. ...

The Barracudas, New Race, The Saints: The Saints: Out In The Jungle (Flicknife)/The Barracudas: Mean Time (Closer)/New Race: The First And The Last

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 16 April 1983

I MUST applaud the mysterious Tony D for his live review of The Barracudas (12/2/83) – the gig excited me in exactly the same way. ...

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 11 October 1975

I THINK IT was Lester Bangs who put forward the proposition that people who went to Black Sabbath concerts derived their pleasure from ingesting massive ...

Black Flag: Wheel Me Out Flagging!: Black Flag: Marquee, London

Live Review by Mat Snow, NME, 26 May 1984

"SEARCH AND DESTROY" is the tattoo emblazoned across the sweat-rivuleted, hawser-taut shoulders of Henry Rollins. ...

Was (Not Was): Disco Infernal

Interview by Mark Sinker, NME, 30 April 1988

WHIPPED CREAM ON A BARBED WIRE PIE ...

The Amboy Dukes - Journeys and Migrations

Review by Max Bell, NME, 3 May 1975

THIS MOST RECENT collection of The American Amboy Dukes, taken from the first three albums, is strictly one for masochistic archivists. Amusement value only. If ...

New York Dolls: The New York Dolls: The New York Dolls (Mercury Import)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, 25 August 1973

THE NEW YORK Dolls are trash, they play rock 'n' roll like sluts and they've just released a record that can proudly stand beside Iggy ...

The Pretty Things: Greatest Hits 1964-1967

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 6 December 1975

FOR A SHORT time, around the London clubs and art school dances, back in 1964, it seemed as though the Pretty Things might just unseat ...

The Runaways: Queens Of Noise

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 29 January 1977

THE MAIN thing that's wrong with this album can be summed up in two words. They are Kim Fowley. Yes that's right. Fowley appears to ...

The Verve: Manchester Roadhouse

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, 17 June 1995

SO THAT’S what it sounds like. A long, curdled up intro, all ghostly pyrotechnics and a death rattle of drums, then suddenly, whoosh! And the ...