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Interview by Steve Mascord, Hot Metal, April 1989

"Camera's got them images, Camera's got them all, Showed me everybody, naked and disfigured, Nothing's Shocking." — From 'Ted, Just Admit It', Jane's Addiction ...

Those That Can, Do … Music Criticism and Other Evils

Report by Chris Bourke, Rip It Up, January 1990

Rock critics are a bunch of misanthropic know-alls who like to talk more than they like to dance. They think they're the only ones who ...

EMF

Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1991

"We've done our time in the backs of Transits!" ...

The Notorious B.I.G.: Murder Ballads: The Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death (Bad Boy)

Review by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, 1 May 1997

IN A FRIGHTENING WAY, the current hip-hop scene recalls the end of Goodfellas: The major players are turning up dead, heading off to prison or ...

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 ...

Chuck Klosterman: Fargo Rock City – A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta

Book Review by Eric Weisbard, The New York Times Book Review, 3 June 2001

SPANDEX MAKES the heart grow fonder. When I was an editor at Spin magazine a few years ago, the article most people gushed over was ...

Spinal Tap: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 18 July 1992

THE VERTEBRATE ROCK'N'ROLL SWINDLE ...

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? ...

Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll

Essay by Nick Tosches, Spin, August 1990

NOW THAT the 1980s, whatever the fuck they were, are, like the great Liberace himself, dead and gone, can't we get this whole dumb business ...

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? ...

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. ...

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. ...

Prodigy, The: The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land (XL Recordings XLMC 121) KKKKK

Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 28 June 1997

LAND OF HOPE & GLORY ...

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 ...

Art Brut: Brut force

Interview by John Lewis, Metro, June 2007

Eddie Argos and Jasper Future from Art Brut talk about poetry, heavy metal, the Travelling Wilburys, tribute bands and their unusual relationship with hip hop. ...

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. ...

Faster Pussycat: Let Sleeping Pussycats Lie

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 7 October 1989

First, the good news: 70 per cent of the people in Troy, Michigan like LA sleazeballs FASTER PUSSYCAT. The bad news? The rest of them ...

Garth Brooks: Country's New Gold Rush

Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992

With Garth Brooks leading the way, Nashville is booming ...

Mary J. Blige, Notorious B.I.G., The, Puff Daddy, Jodeci, Craig Mack: Puff Daddy: Born To Be Bad

Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, May 1995

A multi-platinum music mogul at just twenty four, Sean "Puffy" Combs is the face of future hip hop. meet a Bad Boy made good. ...

Cynthia Plastercaster: This Woman Has Handled The Biggest Things In Rock

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 8 July 1989

Twenty years ago The Plastercasters of Chicago were the most infamous groupies in America. Now, hardened professional CYNTHIA PLASTERCASTER is back with tales of naked ...