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Review by Ben Thompson, Observer Music Monthly, 21 March 2004

IF ITS ILLUSTRIOUS predecessor – 2001's visionary soft-porn psychedelic soul masterpiece In Search of... – was anything to go by, the release of a new ...

Bill Frisell Quartet: Look Out For Hope (ECM)

Review by Gene Santoro, Spin, May 1988

BILL FRISELL IS the Clark Kent of the electric guitar. Soft-spoken and self-effacing in conversation, he apparently breathes in lungfuls of raw fire when he ...

Buddy Miles Express: Expressway To Your Skull (Mercury SR61192)

Review by Miles, International Times, 31 January 1969

A COMBINATION of heavy soul backing with overlay of modern blues — like taking the Electric Flag a bit further, this album is of great ...

Michael Jackson: Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (Epic)

Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, August 1997

ANYONE CAN BE rebellious or avant-garde — even fanzine writers — but if you hope to be reckoned amongst the truly weird, it sure helps ...

Arthur Lee: Vindicator (A&M AMLS 64356)

Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 9 September 1972

There's a lot of mileage in Arthur yet ...

Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies/One Nation Under A Groove/Uncle Jam Wants You/The Electric Spanking Of War Babies

Review by Richard Gehr, Blender, August 2002

George Clinton's freaky crew in its late '70s prime. ...

Curtis Mayfield: The Anthology 1961-1977

Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1993

CURTIS MAYFIELD and the Impressions: The Anthology, a two-CD, forty-song set, is a remarkable document. Lovingly assembled by Chicago-soul authority Robert Pruter, this collection connects ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (Decca)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 23 November 1968

I KEEP changing my mind about Beggars Banquet which is the Rolling Stones new album in the sleeve which has now been passed fit for ...

Love: The Blue Thumb Recordings

Review by Mick Houghton, Uncut, September 2007

Love's Post-Elektra Albums Plus Intriguing Rediscovered Live Recordings. ...

Soft Cell: The Art of Falling Apart (Sire 237691)

Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, May 1983

MARC ALMOND and David Ball of Soft Cell make great singles. Like Paul McCartney, Abba and precious few others these days, they're adept at creating ...

Loop: A Gilded Eternity (Situation Two LP/ Cassette/CD)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 20 January 1990

NEW GOLD DREAM ...

Common: Electric Circus

Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 16 January 2003

IN THE LATE 1960S, civil rights struggles, and demonstrations against the Vietnam war in America, gave birth to heavy psychedelia and searing soul music. 2002 ...

Beach Boys, The, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Herd, The, Albert King, Jimmy Ruffin, Vanilla Fudge, Ken Dodd: Beach Boy Bruce Johnston reviews new singles in Blind Date

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967

VANILLA FUDGE: 'You Keep Me Hanging On' (Atlantic). Oh! I love it. Oh it's great. I didn't recognise the beginning at first. Yeah, Vanilla Fudge. ...

Muse: Black Holes and Revelations

Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, June 2006

COMPARED TO the mighty cosmic thunder of Muse, the undernourished hipsters of the current Britrock scene sound like puny little insects. Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme ...

Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1991

LAST YEAR'S HANDS-DOWN winner in the specialist category of best debut album by a dreadlocked Russo-Jewish Bahamian-American, Lenny Kravitz has since gone global, being taken ...

Steve Miller: The Steve Miller Band: Brave New World (Capitol)

Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969

IF YOU WERE hoping for some new music from the new Steve Miller Band – organist Jim Peterman and guitarist Boz Scaggs have left, and ...

Janis Ian: Society's Child (Tarcher/Penguin)

Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, March 2009

I ADMITTEDLY hadn't thought much about Janis Ian lately, even as my good friend Andy Schwartz kept recommending this surprisingly compelling, always-candid autobiography, going so ...

Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, The Who: Monterey International Pop Festival

Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998

Four-CD box set of the 1967 Summer Of Love festival ...

Big Star: Radio City (Ardent)

Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 28 February 1974

ONLY JANUARY, and already the Album of the Year is upon us. Big Star's Radio City is most assuredly the finest American record since Bob ...

The Stone Roses: Second Coming

Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, February 1995

IF THE BYRDS HAD BEEN WELSH; IF Lenny Kravitz shopped at Kwik Save; if the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin or Wishbone Ash or Eddie ...