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Kraftwerk: Robopop

Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 6 June 1991

In Düsseldorf back in ’68, a clean-cut combo of besuited squares were unaware that they were destined to change the face of dance music forever ...

EMF: Sombrero Guys Have All the Luck

Report and Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991

Call the copse! America's favourite "alternative" group EMF are Number One and on one, naughty rock 'n' roll Bash Street Kids taking full advantage of, ...

Mötley Crüe: Decade of Dickheadedness

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991

Grand old dames of Heavy Metal MÖTLEY CRÜE have just signed a record deal worth a cool £35 million. Not bad for a band that ...

N-Joi: I'm To Essexy for the Charts

Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 29 February 1992

Burn all your bootlegs, your boxed sets and Live At The Budokan deletions, and embrace Live In Manchester — a Techno record by N-JOI with ...

Supersuckers, Sick & Wrong, Earth, Six Finger Satellite, Green Magnet School: Sub Pop: Espresso Way To Your Skull

Report and Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 18 July 1992

Smells like (oh yes) caffeine spirit! Brash, thrashy, bursting with attitude, irony and a shameless desire to make a mint out of countless 'intellectual redneck' ...

Kylie Minogue: She Came, She S.A.W., She Conquered

Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 22 August 1992

In the great theme park that is the British Popular Experience, KYLIE MINOGUE represents a national treasure, which is not bad going for an Australian. ...

Auteurs, The: The Auteurs: Auteur Magic For The People

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 20 February 1993

Fed up of noisy, brutish Brit bands ripping off tired ideas from the Yanks? Nothing to excite you in the modern, cutting-edge of music? Then ...

Naughty By Nature: Hooray Homies

Interview by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 20 March 1993

They're huge! They're massive! NAUGHTY BY NATURE are the rap equivalent of Nirvana, catapulted to success by the unstoppable 'OPP'. But as they hold promotional ...

Manic Street Preachers, Credit to the Nation, Blaggers ITA: Manic Street Preachers, Blaggers ITA, Credit to the Nation: Eclectic Riot Orchestra

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 July 1993

It's the most exciting and important tour to take place this year. In the last six months, politics has roared back onto the musical agenda ...

U2: Welcome to Empty-V: U2's Zoo(ropa TV)

Comment by Stephen Dalton, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 August 1993

Is Zoo(ropa/TV) a subversive, ironic multi-media bombardment and situationist statement or a two-hour post-modernist Pot Noodle advert made by politically naive, culturally unaware squares with ...

Eric Clapton, Clash, The, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Selecter, The, Specials, The, Steven Van Zandt: RAR! RAR! Disputin'! The History of Rock Against Racism

Retrospective by John Harris, New Musical Express, 16 October 1993

  ON APRIL 16, 1990, a proud man who'd spent 27 years in the custody of a vicious racist regime arrived in London. He'd come to ...

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: "We Just Cannot Realise How Troubled This Soul Was..."

Comment by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 16 April 1994

I FIRST MET Kurt Cobain on the night of December 3, 1989. His band had been on the road for weeks, touring the European toilet ...

Oasis: The Bruise Brothers

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 23 April 1994

The Kinks did it. The Who did it. But no-one does it like OASIS, five lads who won't waste words when a punch will do, ...

Lush: From Despair to Mayfair

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 4 June 1994

Beneath the all-quaffing, lager-frenzied, dreamy-weamy indie muso LUSH there's a band bristling with resentment, heartbreak and anger. Visiting MIKI BERENYI's nightmare childhood and EMMA ANDERSON'S ...

Jeff Buckley: Son Arise

Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 27 August 1994

Born with a voice to die for and a runaway father who follows him everywhere, JEFF BUCKLEY's wish not to discuss the late, great old ...

Green Day: The Dookies Of Hazards

Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 3 September 1994

Smothered in mud, wrestling with bouncers, GREEN DAY are The Monkees, The Kinks, The Banana Splits and The Ramones in one handy million-selling punk rock ...

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Washington's State

Report and Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995

If Cobain's death shook the rock world, its impact on his hometown went off the scales. BARBARA ELLEN visited Seattle to find out how much ...

McAlmont & Butler: Drag Man Star

Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 13 May 1995

Charged up by men in frocks, with a voice like Al Green meets Liz Cocteau, there's no mistaking McALMONT. But who's the reticent guitarist? BERNARD ...

Blur: Graham Coxon: I'm Completely at Odds With Everything

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 23 September 1995

He hated the 'Country House' video and had doubts about it as a single. He thought of sabotaging his band's attempts to win that coveted ...

Rocket From The Crypt: Cats With Nine Knives

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 28 October 1995

They mean it, maaan. Punk from the States is so often tame, familiar and predictable, but that looks set to change with the imminent success ...