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DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for March 2002

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, March 2002

ALBUMS OF THE MONTH ...

Sam Cooke: Keep Movin' On (ABKCO)

Review by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 14 March 2002

THE TRAGIC DEATH of Sam Cooke remains one of rock and roll's great mysteries. Cooke was shot in the wee hours of December 10, 1964, ...

Dig This! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for April 2002

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, April 2002

ALBUM OF THE MONTH! ...

David Bowie: Mr Universe: David Bowie: Heathen (ISO/Columbia) ****

Review by David Quantick, Q, June 2002

Rock's original spaceboy flexes his muscles. ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for July 2002

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, July 2002

GIGS O' THE MONTH! ...

Lauryn Hill: MTV Unplugged

Review by John Aizlewood, Blender, July 2002

IT SOUNDS LIKE either madness or genius, and it's actually a bit of both. As her follow-up to 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for October 2002

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, October 2002

ALBUMS O' THE MONTH! ...

Bright Eyes: Lifted, Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (Wichita)

Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2002

Nebraskan boy wonder bunkers down for apocalypse. ...

Joe Bonamassa, Derek Trucks Band, The: Joe Bonamassa: So, It's Like That/Derek Trucks Band: Joyful Noise

Review by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2002

THE BLUES NEEDS a new messiah, a musician who can prove the style's vitality by exploding it across the barriers of age, culture and taste, ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for February 2003

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, February 2003

RADIO SHOW OF THE MONTH ...

Turin Brakes: Ether Song (Source) ****

Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 28 February 2003

THIS MERCURY- and Brits-nominated duo have a patina of hipness, but their appearance on the launch night of BBC3 unmasked them as aspiring David Grays, ...

Fairport Convention: Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking

Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, April 2003

Three reissued albums find Fairport Convention on the edge of greatness ...

Duran Duran: The Singles 81-85

Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, May 2003

DURAN DURAN were, of course, the original band who wanted to combine the Sex Pistols with Chic. Taking their name from a character in the ...

Steve Winwood: About Time

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 June 2003

HIS FIRST ALBUM in six years finds Steve Winwood striking out in the direction of Latin America, using a core unit of jazz guitarist Jose ...

Lisa Maffia: First Lady

Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 1 August 2003

JUST BECAUSE So Solid Crew are paranoid, it doesn't mean someone isn't after them. Since the 30-odd-strong UK garage cartel emerged from Battersea in south ...

Ali Farka Toure, Oumou Sangare, Tinariwen, Afel Bocoum: Various Artists: Le Festival au Desert

Review by Charlie Gillett, bbc.co.uk, September 2003

The Best Live Album Ever? ...

Albert Ayler: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght

Review by Edwin Pouncey, Jazzwise, October 2003

Albert Ayler (tf/ts); Mary Marta Parks (v/ss); Call Cobbs (p); Steve Tlntwetss (b); A Pen Biairman (d). Rec. 25 and 27 July 1970 ...

John Frusciante: Shadows Collide With People

Review by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, March 2004

Fourth solo album for Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist, featuring Flea and Chad Smith, with cover photography by actor Vincent Gallo. ...

Jim White: Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See

Review by Jude Rogers, The Word, May 2004

Pumped full of drive — Jim White's off-kilter alt.country ...

Who, The: The Who: Then & Now and Singles Box Set Volume 1

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2004

Two best-ofs, including first new studio recordings in 22 years ...