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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? ...

Guns N' Roses, Public Enemy: Public Enemy and Guns N' Roses: Busted Axl

Report by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 22 August 1989

FORTY-EIGHT hours in the feeding-cycle of New York City. There were Uzis, Public Enemy regrouping, and a clique of blond babes orbiting Axl Rose at ...

Ice Cube, N.W.A.: N.W.A.: Wanted For Attitude

Report by Dave Marsh, The Village Voice, 10 October 1989

HOW'S THIS for government intimidation? In early August, a letter arrived on the desk of Priority Records president Brian Turner. Written on Department of Justice ...

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 ...

Guns N' Roses, N.W.A.: At a Loss for Words

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 31 May 1990

Record-industry acceptance of stickering is already having a chilling effect ...

No More Heroes?

Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Face, March 1991

Where have all the pop stars gone? Artists like Elvis Presley or The Beatles are the record company ideal, showing steady sales year after year. ...

Jane's Addiction: Lollapalooza

Report by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 29 August 1991

LOLLAPALOOZA means a bizarre happening. ...

Heavy-Metal Nation

Report by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 19 September 1991

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

Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Mötley Crüe, Rolling Stones, The: Big Deals: How Money Fever is Changing the Music Business

Report by Fred Goodman, Musician, January 1992

"IN MARCH of 1985 the band was broke. People were selling their houses. The IRS was calling every day." ...

Michael Jackson: The Making Of The King Of Pop

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 9 January 1992

THE SEVEN DWARFS are singing. Their voices are floating out of speakers hidden among the trees and lush flora surrounding Michael Jackson's mansion in Neverland ...

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 ...

Guns N' Roses, Metallica: Guns N' Roses roll in to Foxboro

Report by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 September 1992

"THE TRAIN," says a confident-sounding Wendy Laister, "is absolutely back on the tracks." ...

Guns N' Roses, Metallica: Metallica: High on Iron Scion

Report by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 24 October 1992

The streamlined, black-clad resistance fighters of METALLICA are poised for a surgical strike on Guns N' Roses' hard rock throne. STEPHEN DALTON discovers the truth ...

Edie Brickell, Willie Nile, BoDeans, Neighborhoods, The, Simms Brothers Band, The, Black 47, Major Thinkers, Regulators, The: Leaving Normal: The day after the day you get signed

Report by Bruce Pollock, Musician, July 1993

FOR A band at the top of the local ladder, it's the best of times and the worst of times. It's when the answer from ...

Stone Temple Pilots: Moshing Mayhem: STP fan says band beat him in Gardner

Report by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 August 1993

ROCK 'N' ROLL can be a rough-and-tumble game, increasingly so in these days of moshing, a highly aggressive dance-cum-contact sport that often takes place in ...

Auteurs, The, Morrissey, Suede: British Rockers Trot Out the Flag

Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 September 1993

LONDON — In rock-and-roll just as in politics, the United States and England have a special relationship. Together, they have dominated global pop. Over the decades, ...

CBGB: This Ain't No Mudd Club

Report by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 10 February 1994

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

Hole, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana: Rock 'N' Roll Suicide?

Report by Pete Makowski, Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 9 July 1994

Seattle's heroin nightmare continues. First ANDY WOOD of the seminal MOTHER LOVE BONE overdosed and died. Then KURT COBAIN ended his desperate addiction by committing ...

The Needle And The Damage Done

Report by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, 10 August 1996

"I've seen the needle and the damage done / A little part of it in everyone / But every junkie's like a setting sun" — ...

Guns N' Roses: Meltdown

Report by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 3 January 2003

With Guns N' Roses, he was one of the biggest – and baddest – rockers on the planet. Now his new album is a decade ...