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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Girls Against Boys: Freak*on*ica (Geffen)

Review by Ben Myers, Melody Maker, 16 May 1998

UH-OH. IT'S that corporate record thing. After many years riding the subways of an ultra-cool underground, first as Soulside, then as Girls Against Boys and ...

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. ...

Vines, The: The Vines: Highly Evolved

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 ...

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 ...

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? ...

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 ...

Velvet Revolver: Libertad

Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 2 July 2007

IT'S 20 YEARS since Guns N' Roses released Appetite For Destruction and put the sex and drugs back into rock n' roll. But don't expect ...

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 ...

Guns N' Roses: Chinese Democracy

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2009

Long-promised, finally delivered. Axl and co's first new album since 1991. ...