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Whitesnake: Slip of the Tongue (Geffen)

Review by Bud Scoppa, Spin, February 1990

A VENERABLE Brit rock band whose only constant was crusty-throated journeyman David Coverdale (his main claim to fame being a 1973-1976 stint as Deep Purple's ...

Texas: New Morning, Paris

Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 24 June 1989

I DON'T know if I can get across to you just how depressing it is to be standing, sweating in a tiny Parisian jazz club ...

Queens Of The Stone Age: Primeval Scream: Queens Of The Stone Age: Rated R (Interscope) ***

Review by Paul Elliott, Q, September 2000

Like evolution never happened. ...

Silverfish, Soundgarden, Swervedriver: Soundgarden, Silverfish, Swervedriver: Astoria, London

Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 21 July 1990

ARRIVING HALF way through Swervedriver's set I canter expectantly to the front hungry for my first encounter with Thrash Metal Sub Hardcore Pop Noise. I ...

Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes: The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (Def American 512 263-2)

Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, June 1992

ONE DAY, maybe soon, The Black Crowes will be the biggest rock'n'roll band in Atlanta, Georgia — and following that, the world. Their debut LP ...

R.I.P. Tawn Mastrey, the voice of KNAC

Comment by Deanne Stillman, L.A. Observed, October 2007

I DON'T KNOW how I could have gotten through a certain part of my life without KNAC, the late, great heavy metal station that played ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lenny Kravitz: Circus

Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 21 September 1995

IN THE TITLE TRACK of Lenny Kravitz's new album, the singer struggles with the dictates of reality that come to bear on fantasy. "Welcome to ...

Heavy-Metal Nation

Report by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 19 September 1991

Inside the world of headbangers in New York and Los Angeles ...

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 ...

Bob Dylan: Under The Red Sky

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1990

ONE EASY WAY of telling who the record industry considers to be this year's hot producer is to check the credits of the latest Dylan ...

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 ...

Thin Lizzy: Wild One -The Very Best Of Thin Lizzy (Polygram)

Review by Ian Fortnam, NME, June 1996

THE LONG hot summer of 1976 was not a great time to be a pop kid. Brotherhood Of Man and Showaddywaddy (ask your dad) dominated ...

Faith No More: God, The Devil And All The Rest

Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 7 June 1992

Despite starting out as an anti-people band, Faith No More's last album, 1989's The Real Thing, has sold millions, even though its baroque, doom-laden fusion ...

Anthrax, Living Colour: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 1 April 1989

FAVOURITE COLOURS ...

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 ...

Jonas Brothers, The: Jonas Brothers: A Little Bit Longer

Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2008

FOR THE UNINITIATED, the Jonas Brothers are the American Busted. Three nice middle class boys who've come to kick identikit, squeaky clean bubblegum pop into ...

Steve Earle: Copperhead Road (Uni) *** ½

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 26 January 1989

IN 1986 AND 1987, Steve Earle made two great records — Guitar Town and Exit 0 — on which he established a vivid Southern-working-class identity ...

Paul McCartney: Docklands Arena, London

Live Review by Jon Young, Musician, April 1993

"THE WEEKEND starts here," beamed a well-preserved Paul McCartney, surveying the friendly crowd at London's Docklands Arena one dank Friday night in February. Say what ...