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Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 26 February 2017

Losing his stepdad made him the rapper he is today ...

Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 27 February 2017

Rickie Lee Jones on songwriting, social media, and how she's handling Trump. ...

Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington: The Roxy, 14 December 1976 – 23 April 1977, Our Story

Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, March 2017

ON DECEMBER 14, 1976, after a brief stint as the first in an endless stream of optimists who tried to manage the Damned, Andrew Czezowski, ...

Jamiroquai's Automaton

Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Virgin Records, March 2017

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL spring day in a quiet corner of the English countryside. Water gently runs in a stream, birds cheerfully sing in the trees ...

Traffic: Fantasy and Reality: Traffic, Part One

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Shindig, March 2017

50 years ago, four musicians moved into a haunted Berkshire cottage. Surrounded by ancient sites and monuments, they ignited a unique musical melting pot that ...

Rodney Crowell: Close Ties

Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 27 March 2017

FOR A SONG CYCLE that turns around death and mortality, Rodney Crowell's Close Ties is a decidedly jubilant affair. Co-produced by Kim Buie and Jordan ...

Midnight Oil: "A bloody-minded bunch of bastards": Midnight Oil's The Over Flow Tank

Sleevenotes by Andrew Stafford, (Sony Legacy), May 2017

THE PLACE: 8 Ormiston Avenue, Gordon, a leafy suburb on Sydney's Upper North Shore. The year: sometime in 1972. A teenaged Robert George Hirst hauls ...

Patrick Adams: A Celebration of Patrick Adams

Retrospective and Interview by Jason King, Red Bull Academy Magazine, 8 May 2017

Exploring the back catalogue of the black musical genius whose work defined '70s and '80s soul, funk, disco and post-disco ...

U2: In Trump's country: U2 takes Joshua Tree politics back on the road

Live Review by Caryn Rose, salon.com, 16 May 2017

30 years after their blisteringly political album and tour, U2 opts for subtle anti-Trump imagery over big speeches. ...

Leftfield: O2 Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 16 May 2017

Steam rose from a crowd determined to rave, whatever their age. By the finale, soaked bodies littered the floor of the foyer ...

André Cymone, Prince: André Cymone: Keeping the Purple One's Spirit Alive

Interview by Jeff Weiss, LA Weekly, 17 May 2017

IT'S BEEN NEARLY 400 DAYS since Prince passed and his former bandmate, surrogate brother and best friend still can't quite believe that he's gone. To ...

Rod Stewart: Sir Rod Stewart: "Maggie May? I prefer Theresa May!"

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 May 2017

Wake up, Theresa, I think I've got something to say to you... which is that you may be PM, Mrs May, but you're also "a fair ...

Liam Gallagher: O2 Ritz, Manchester

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 31 May 2017

Manchester's most irascible son makes an emotional return. ...

Benjamin Booker: How I turned my personal meltdown into a rallying cry for black America

Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 21 June 2017

He was overweight, abusing drugs and fleeing from his self-harming past. So he took all his problems – and turned them into the sensational new ...

Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer: Song from the Future: The Story of Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's 'I Feel Love'

Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 June 2017

Forty years after its release, the ingenious studio gurus behind the robot-funk masterpiece talk about how it came to be. ...

Metallica: Michael Alago, Who Signed Metallica and White Zombie, Gets the Documentary Treatment in Who the F**k Is That Guy?

Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Variety, 21 July 2017

IF THE HISTORIES of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre warrant four hours of prime HBO real estate in The Defiant Ones, then certainly Michael Alago, ...

Jess Glynne: Falkirk Stadium, Scotland

Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Daily Mail, 19 August 2017

Jess Glynne offers a sprinkling of magic to unsunny Stirlingshire, but inevitably for an artist still touring her first record, the handful of killer comes ...

Cory Beers Cimbalom Band: A musical mix from Hungary: Cimbalom at Union Station

Report by Kirk Silsbee, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 22 September 2017

UNION STATION HAS long been a repository of emotional memory and civic history. ...

Terence Trent D'Arby, Sananda Maitreya: Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: "It was that or death"

Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 October 2017

In 1987, his debut album saw him hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson and Prince — but then his star crashed and burned. He ...

Billy Corgan: "I Like To Fuck With People": Billy Corgan interviewed

Interview by Julian Marszalek, Gigwise, 12 October 2017

Julian Marszalek talks to Billy Corgan about his new solo album, Ogilala, how Rogers Waters has inspired a potential Smashing Pumpkins reunion, the death of ...