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Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 1 August 1992

Admits its reluctant frontman JAMES HETFIELD, "but it's not the only thing we enjoy doing." While drummer LARS ULRICH enjoys playing the party animal till ...

Waterboys, The: The Waterboys: The Man In The Ironic Mask

Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2006

Back with what's being heralded as their best album for two decades, the Waterboys have a busy year ahead. Mike Scott cracks a smile for ...

Nirvana: Smells like... Bullshit

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 February 1992

Nevermind has been at Number One on the Kerrang! Album Chart for a month. Stateside it's the same plus Double Platinum, and worldwide the video ...

Mike Scott, Waterboys, The: Mike Scott: The Man In The Ironic Mask

Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2007

Back with what's being heralded as their best album for two decades, the Waterboys have a busy year ahead. Mike Scott cracks a smile for ...

The Raveonettes: Rock 'N' Rollmop: The Raveonettes

Interview by Jenny Valentish, Inpress, March 2006

QUITE APART from the bitter chill, Denmark's not a happy place to be right now. But this slightly bewildered, historically neutral nation (their coins even ...

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 ...

Tori Amos: I Wanna Sell You A Tori

Report by Terry Staunton, NME, 8 February 1992

Six months ago she was nobody, today TORI AMOS is well on the way to becoming a household name. The former LA 'rock chick' has ...

Rory Gallagher: In The Midst Of A Blues Boom, Rory Gallagher Roars Back

Interview by Susan Whitall, Detroit News, March 1991

WHEN RORY Gallagher decides to take a flyer, he doesn't mess around. After years of soul-numbing touring up and down the American continent, the Irish ...

Hole: Belting Out That Most Unfeminine Emotion

Interview by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, 9 February 1992

SUSAN FALUDI, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, said recently in a magazine interview that "anger is not something that's an ...

Radiohead: In The Forest As The Fire Burns

Essay by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 23 June 2001

Esoteric? Non-Commercial? Then how come it's #1? ...

Radio's Rock of Ages

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 June 1989

Is the classic-rock format dictating which acts record companies sign? ...

Jane's Addiction: Lollapalooza

Report by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 29 August 1991

LOLLAPALOOZA means a bizarre happening. ...

Blind Melon: Cosmic Gumbo

Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 1994

Blues with just a soupcon of psychedelia. Dash of raga-rock. R&B to taste. Put in blender. Heat, serve. Repeat as required. ...

Soundgarden: Daylight Shrubbery

Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 5 October 1991

With their Badmotorfinger LP being hailed as a classic, SOUNDGARDEN tell PUSH that this is their time ...

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 ...

Manic Street Preachers: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 January 1996

THE MANICS HAVE made a career out of keeping the most impossible of promises and breaking the simplest of trusts. They said they'd split up ...

Rockingbirds, The: Modern Lovers: The Rockingbirds

Profile and Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 30 May 1992

"EVERY GROUP SHOULD be like a cartoon," says Alan Tyler, former philosophy student, tap dancer and bookies runner, now lead singer with the Rockingbirds. "If ...

Moby: Shave the Whale

Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991

He once sang with Flipper, but now MOBY — aka straight-edge Techno DJ RICHARD MELVILLE HALL — is having a whale of a time out ...

CBGB: This Ain't No Mudd Club

Report by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 10 February 1994

CBGB celebrates its 20 years of rock & roll ...

INXS, Michael Hutchence: Michael Hutchence: The Q 100 Interview

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1995

HOW THE devil are you? ...