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Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 3 January 2010

NOTE: This is the original "director's cut" version of the piece that ran in The Sunday Times. ...

Faces, The: The Faces: British Music Experience, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, August 2010

SO MUCH FELT wrong about the first official comeback show by 1970s Britrock veterans the Faces on Wednesday. Ominously held at the O2 Arena's new ...

Guns N' Roses: Reading Festival, Berkshire

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 28 August 2010

Axl flounders as Reading made to wait for its rock fix ...

Black Country Communion: Return of the Rock-and-Roll Supergroup

Report and Interview by David Sinclair, Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2010

THE ROCK SUPERGROUP is back. Once a byword for hype and hubris, the idea of renowned musicians getting together to form instantly famous new groups ...

Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, The, Beck, Bogert and Appice, Les Paul: Jeff Beck talks about Rod Stewart and answers some questions for Classic Rock

Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2011

JEFF BECK confirmed to Classic Rock that the two old buddies would renew a partnership that first saw light in the late 1960s when the two rock ...

Nirvana: Smells Like a Sellout: Nirvana and the Death of Alternative Rock

Essay by Toby Creswell, Rock's Backpages, September 2011

NOWADAYS EVERYBODY ascribes the collapse of the recording industry to illegal downloading. But as Bob Dylan recently observed, "Remember when that Napster guy came up ...

Etta James, R.I.P.

Retrospective by Carol Cooper, Village Voice, 23 January 2012

ETTA JAMES used to tell a story about meeting Billie Holiday in which Holiday told her — fatherless wild child to fatherless wild child — ...

Remembering Greg Shaw

Memoir by Mark Shipper, Rock's Backpages, April 2012

WELL, I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE. Deep in the back of my head I have this Karmic debt I owe to Greg Shaw for setting ...

Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend: Jim Marshall, 1923-2012

Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 5 April 2012

The "Father of Loud", he gave his name to the world-famous, ubiquitous amplifier. ...

Lana Del Rey: Jazz Cafe, London ****

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 12 April 2012

BEING pop's latest It Girl clearly has its downsides. ...

Seeds, The: 22420 Pacific Coast Highway: Tales of Tim Hudson, Sky Saxon… and Ian Botham

Memoir by Mick Middles, Rock's Backpages, July 2012

STICK-THIN, clad in purple and black. Leather trousers, knee-length boots. Boney, bug-eyed, skank hair, dead face, white cheeks. This strange man was telling me to ...

Joe Bonamassa

Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, July 2012

IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT in Cleveland… April 14, specifically, and blues guitar legend Freddie King has just been inducted by Z.Z. Top into the Rock 'n' ...

Faces, The: The Faces

Interview by Alan Light, Relix, July 2012

"WITH THE FACES, you never know what's going to happen." It's a theme that comes up again and again in conversation with Ronnie Wood and ...

Justin Bieber: Cash For Questions

Interview by Jude Rogers, Q, August 2012

Lock up your nieces, the Canadian teen-pop behemoth is over here and gagging to answer your questions on scary fans, fighting One Direction and whether ...

Rock 'n' Roll Never Forgets

Retrospective by Jim Esposito, Classic Rock, September 2013

IN THE FUTURE the 1960s will be remembered as another Renaissance, an aesthetic revolution when art flourished. Only this time instead of white marble sculptures ...

2CELLOS: Shepherds Bush Empire, W12

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 19 February 2015

TAKE A COUPLE OF tousled-haired, classically trained Croatians; mix in Michael Jackson, AC/DC and a dash of Il Divo's cheesy charm; simmer on YouTube. The ...

Is it over for the NME?

Comment by James Brown, Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2015

As the New Musical Express announces it is to go free, here former features editor James Brown writes how the lights went out at the ...

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Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016

From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...

AC/DC, Easybeats, The: George Young should be remembered as the sonic architect of Australian rock music

Obituary by Andrew Stafford, The Guardian, 24 October 2017

The Easybeats guitarist and AC/DC producer wasn't just a star in his own right, but a behind-the-scenes industry giant. ...

Macklemore: Victoria Warehouse, Manchester

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 2 April 2018

WHEN HE WAS A STRUGGLING UNKNOWN, Seattle's Ben Haggerty, AKA Macklemore, pondered being a white rapper: "I give everything I have when I write a ...