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Retrospective by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages, October 2013

I WAS TALKING with Lou Reed in his New York office, Sister Ray Enterprises, in 1996 and Reed was dressed, as usual, in a plain ...

Wynton Marsalis Toots His Own Horn

Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, Ebony, 8 October 2013

YES, WYNTON Marsalis has soul. The knee-jerk criticism of the 51-year-old jazz trumpeter ever since his self-titled 1981 album has been that, while always technically ...

Morcheeba: Specs & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll: True Stories Of Morcheeba

Profile and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 18 October 2013

Morcheeba may no longer be flavour of the month, or even the decade, but they've lived it large and survived to tell great tales. As ...

John Mayer: O2, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 21 October 2013

The blues guitarist turned rock star surveys his discography for a tame but well-crafted show. ...

Lou Reed, 1942-2013

Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 28 October 2013

Velvet Underground frontman and solo artist whose hymns to transgressive behaviour created an audience of outsiders. ...

Spade Cooley: Eye Witness: Spade Cooley Murders His Wife

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Country, January 2014

IN THE EARLY 1960s, ageing country music star Spade Cooley and his significantly younger wife Ella Mae were living on his remote ranch, Rosamund, in ...

Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blues, January 2014

PETER GREEN IS, arguably, the most underrated lead guitarist of the British mid-'60s blues boom, consistently relegated to a position somewhere below the holy triumverate ...

Band, The: Vinyl Icon: The Band's Music From Big Pink

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, January 2014

IN 1965, BOB Dylan chose a hoary and somewhat grizzled rock'n'roll combo, the Hawks, as his backing group when he famously "went electric". ...

Tom Waits: The Bridge School Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, October 27, 2013

Live Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, January 2014

In which a failed restauranteur — specialities: eel, donuts, fish scales — repays his debt to Neil Young. Lucky day! ...

Morrissey: "The reports of my death have been greatly understated...".

Report by David Cavanagh, Uncut, January 2014

EVEN BY HIS STANDARDS, 2013 has been a bizarre year for noted author and sometime recording artist Steven Patrick Morrissey. After 11 months of chaos, ...

Lou Reed: A Last Waltz on the Wild Side

Memoir by Ed McCormack, Vanity Fair, 13 January 2014

In an excerpt from his in-progress memoir, former Rolling Stone writer Ed McCormack remembers his friend Lou Reed, and the small theft and turn on ...

Top 10 Hits from the '60s: Who Played on 'Em

Retrospective by Harold Bronson, Rock's Backpages, 14 January 2014

THE WRECKING CREW, a much-needed documentary about the behind-the-scenes elite crop of studio musicians who provided the instrumentation for many of the hits of the ...

Electric Light Orchestra: Vinyl Icon: ELO's Out Of The Blue

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, February 2014

MUSIC THAT was reviled by the critics in its day frequently proves to have lasting merit which only reveals itself in the fullness of time. ...

Nice, The, Davy O'List: Davy O'List

Interview by David Cavanagh, Uncut, February 2014

Davy O'List was in with the in-crowd — a prog prodigy in The Nice, a founder of Roxy Music, the proud owner of Judy Garland’s ...

Charlie Pickett: My Friend Charlie: Real Life, Raw Rock & the Impossible Gulf In Between

Retrospective by Holly Gleason, hollygleason.com, 14 February 2014

MY FRIEND CHARLIE used to be a rock star, only I didn't know him then. Maybe I interviewed him once, at WVUM — "the Voice of ...

Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon: Life after Sonic Youth

Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Observer, 16 February 2014

Artist, musician and style icon, Kim Gordon has been at the cutting edge of culture for more than 30 years. Dorian Lynskey meets the singer ...

David Crosby: "The FBI scare me more than Hell's Angels"

Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 26 February 2014

The legendary songwriter on Janis Joplin, being "the voice of cosmic America" and Croz, his first solo album in 20 years. ...

Kings of Leon: Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 27 February 2014

WE ALL HAVE those albums that signify turning points in our lives and define us as people in particular moments. Personally, the last time I ...

Sheryl Crow

Report and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, March 2014

SHERYL CROW'S made a country album, they said. She's living down there in Nashville, hanging out with Vince Gill and Brad Paisley, going to church ...

Angel Haze: Gorilla, Manchester

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 9 March 2014

"I KNOW I haven't done a bunch of shows, so thanks y'all for coming out to see me eventually," says Angel Haze, reflecting on her ...