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Report by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 3 January 2003

With Guns N' Roses, he was one of the biggest – and baddest – rockers on the planet. Now his new album is a decade ...

Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 2003

AFTER 20-ODD years of Depeche Mode, how strange was it to record your new solo album, Paper Monsters? ...

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003

WELCOME to the twenty-first century alt. rock review. The Vines, as you know, are from Australia, and, as you also know, are the greatest band the ...

The Strokes: Room on Fire

Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 21 September 2003

THREE HOURS before I am left alone in a press-office antechamber with Britain's only copy of Room on Fire, something very important happens on the ...

Jamie Cullum

Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, The Times, 4 October 2003

THE BRIGHTEST and most controversial new star to appear in the British jazz firmament in years is explaining how he first became interested in the ...

Lambchop: Aw C'mon/No You C'mon

Review by Ben Thompson, Observer Music Monthly, 1 February 2004

LIKE OUTKAST'S Speakerboxx/ The Love Below, the eighth album by Nashville's premier artisan country/ soul collective is a double-disc set designed to prompt endless speculation ...

Pink: Birmingham NEC

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 22 March 2004

EVERY NIGHT, Pink goes down on Christina Aguilera. She pins her to the floor and dominates her sexually before serenading her with one of her ...

Rasmus, The: The Rasmus: Dead Letters

Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 9 April 2004

Can Helsinki's brand of retro rock conquer our charts? ...

Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver: Velvet Revolver's Slash (2004) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages transcripts, June 2004

This is a transcript of Adam's audio interview with Slash. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Velvet Revolver's Slash (2004)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, June 2004

The hairy guitar wrangler talks about his drug issues, his overdose, and being straightened out by having a child; his early influences; playing guitar with Izzy Stradlin and Dave Kushner; Duff McKagan's reinvention; getting Velvet Revolver together; Scott Weiland's drug and legal issues; the (first) end of Guns N' Roses... and much more.

File format: mp3; file size: 71mb, interview length: 1h 13' 58" sound quality: ****

Is Music Journalism Dead?

Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 30 June 2004

IF EVER there was a time when writing about music felt utterly pointless, that time is now. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2004

Clowntime is over for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the L.A. punks who defied death, grunge and a burning crack den to play the music ...

Icarus Line, The: Icarus Line: Penance Soiree

Review by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 9 July 2004

IF THE TRANSFORMING POWER of rock has been weakened by various sets of pretenders throughout the years, the first half of Icarus Line's Penance Soiree ...

Nelly: Sweat/Suit

Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2004

ANYONE WHO bought Guns 'N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II knows that an artist releasing two albums at the same time is rarely ...

New York Dolls: Royal Festival Hall, London

Live Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, September 2004

The best advice to bands that delight in near-mythic status is "let it lie". Can the reformed Lipstick Killers disprove the rule? ...

Manic Street Preachers: Not So Manic Now: Manic Street Preachers

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 1 October 2004

TOP OF THE POPS audience members are nothing if not versatile. Five minutes ago, on the last Friday evening in September, they were directing their ...

Tom Waits: Barroom Bard's Next Round

Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 October 2004

TOM WAITS SIPS coffee at the Formica counter of the Chinese takeout and doughnut shop, looking out on the intersection of Mission and 24th streets. ...

Duane Allman, Southern Bitch: Apocalypse in the American Bush: R.I.P. Muscle Shoals Sound, Sheffield, Alabama

Essay by Kandia Crazy Horse, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2005

Feels so good inside myself Don't wanna move Feels so good inside myself Don't need to move –'Luv 'N Haight', Sly & the Family Stone ...

Kate Bush: Return of the Recluse

Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, Independent on Sunday, 2 October 2005

PLENTY HAS HAPPENED in the twelve years since Kate Bush last released an album. Tory sleaze has morphed into New Labour; mobile phones and iPods ...

Sinéad O'Connor, Liz Phair: Playing Against Type: When Musicians Change, They Risk Alienating Fans

Report and Interview by Will Hermes, The New York Times, 17 October 2005

WHEN JOHNNY CASH returned to the spotlight in 1994 with American Recordings, the first in a series of records that presented him as a folkie ...