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LET'S FACE it. 'Convoy' was probably the one moment of pure inspiration C.W. McCall's adcopy-blighted brain will ever enjoy, and those fans hoping for a ...

XTC: Music Machine

Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 16 July 1977

ONLY A FEW NIGHTS EARLIER there'd been a brawl in the Music Machine involving the Boom Town [sic] Rats, but in the cold atmosphere while ...

Sun Ra: Space is the Place

Review by Stevie Chick, bbc.co.uk, 2012

Saturnian jazz godhead leaves Earth’s orbit. ...

Nomads, The: The Nomads: The Garage, London

Review by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 24 November 2001

Scandinavian garage rock legends make rare UK assault Saturday, November 3 Support: The X-Rays ...

Sonic Youth: Sister (Blast First)

Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 30 May 1987

SONIC YOUTH is the itching, striving sound of a literate rock group struggling to assassinate their own intelligence, to unseat the mind's mastery, and achieve ...

Sir Lord Baltimore: Kingdom Come (Mercury)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Creem, May 1971

ALL YOU TRUE blue Heavy fans, take heart. This album is a crusher. Sure enough, Sir Lord Baltimore is none other than a new heavy ...

Dead Boys, The: Are You Ready for The Dead Boys?

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Circus, 13 October 1977

"THIS IS an anniversary present I got from a fan," Stiv Bators is saying, his face a mask of resigned weariness. He pulls up his ...

DMZ: Boston's Best Eschew Message

Interview by Howie Klein, Waxpaper, 1978

I SPENT FEBRUARY in London working on stories about the Clash and Tom Robinson, probably the most politically relevant things to hit rock & roll ...

Alice Cooper: School's Out

Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, October 1972

AS WE ALL KNOW, summer never lasts forever, and Alice was faced with the problem of rushing out a follow-up album before the leaves began ...

Grand Funk Railroad: E Pluribus Funk (Capitol)

Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, 1 January 1972

It's time to admit we were wrong about Grand Funk. Oh, we were right too, but wrong just the same. Those three or four (I ...

Band, The, Buffalo Springfield, Country Joe & The Fish, Doors, The, Aretha Franklin, MC5, Moby Grape, Nico, Otis Redding, Steppenwolf, Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa: 1968: The Shaken City Walls

Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 24 December 1968

"AN ELECTRIC caterwauling of power... burning it, flashing it, whirling it down some arc of consciousness, the sound screaming up to a climax of vibrations ...

Blue Cheer

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, December 2007

How three Summer Of Love acid-heads became the heaviest band on the planet. ...

Destroy All Monsters: Bogart's, Cincinnati OH

Live Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1980

We Almost Lost Detroit – Part 2  ...