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Interview by David Quantick, Vox, January 1992

It may be Christmas but it's the season of no fun for Belinda Carlisle. VOX found her heavy with child, enslaved by her hormones and ...

Jane's Addiction: Jane’s Addiction and Lollapalooza: A Woodstock For The Lost Generation

Interview by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, 4 August 1991

There’s no contest: this summer's biggest tour is the aptly titled Lollapalooza, a mobile rock festival featuring a bill of premier alternative bands – Siouxsie ...

The Nymphs: Here’s To… Me!

Interview by Mat Snow, Q, July 1992

Self-promotion can be such a draining business: what with weeing on record company executives' desks, administering on-stage blow jobs and showing up hours late for ...

Suede: London Suede's New Spirit

Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, April 1997

IT SEEMS THE London Suede is the band that everybody loves to hate. No matter how many records they sell, or how many venues they ...

Metallica Moves to Center Stage

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 March 1989

LAKELAND, Fl. — Just as Metallica helped change the face of the Grammys — it was one of five acts nominated for the first-ever hard-rock/metal ...

Wolfsbane: Every Witch Way And Loose

Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 29 September 1990

As predicted by a white witch, WOLFBANE's career has been shaped by a series of fantastic events. CATHI UNSWORTH listens to the unlikeliest of flower ...

Chic: Le Freak Scenes

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 14 March 1992

As massive an influence on modern dance as Kraftwerk and James Brown, CHIC have finally come back after years producing records for likes of Madonna ...

Lenny Kravitz: Giving Peace A Chance

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 19 May 1990

Lenny Kravitz might not be the new Hendrix, but he'd play the shit out of Jimi's guitar given the chance. Paul Elliott hears the feedback. ...

Coal Porters, The, Sid Griffin: What a Long, Strange Ryde(r) It's Been: Sid Griffin

Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, The Bob, April 1995

SID GRIFFIN emerges from the underground tube station at Piccadilly Circus, a long coat over his shoulders, collar up against the chill, and coattails adrift ...

Mudhoney: Angels With Muddy Faces

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989

MUDHONEY's music is a wild thing — garage grunge and Iggy-style abandon. In person they're mild-mannered, middle class Americans with a hopeless addiction to Sham 69 ...

Dave Gahan on Paper Monsters

Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 2003

AFTER 20-ODD years of Depeche Mode, how strange was it to record your new solo album, Paper Monsters? ...

Sex Pistols, The: The Sex Pistols: Taking Another Shot

Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 1996

Prototypical punks the Sex Pistols are back together — so take cover ...

Danielle Dax: Danielle In The Lions' Den

Interview by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 6 May 1989

Though branded flippant and eccentric, Danielle Dax refuses to knuckle under to labels. Uncovering her music's mix of malice and humour, Robin Gibson hears why ...

Sepultura: Who Wants To Be A Brazilian Air Guitarist

Interview by Stuart Maconie, NME, 13 July 1991

Stuart Maconie goes autograph hunting with Latin America's biggest thrash band ...

Anthrax, Public Enemy: Anthrax: Bohemian Rapsody

Interview by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 22 June 1991

When metal meets rap in the form of ANTHRAX and CHUCK D, there's bound to be some trouble. NEIL PERRY hears about the fight for ...

Biffy Clyro

Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 3 January 2010

NOTE: This is the original "director's cut" version of the piece that ran in The Sunday Times. ...

Metallica

Interview by Richard Gehr, Music & Sound Output, September 1988

LARS ULRICH has recently risen from the sleep, dreamless or otherwise, of the very successful. His band, billed fourth (between Led Zep wannaboys Kingdom Come ...

Pixies, The: The Pixies: Tyranny And Mutation

Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 10 August 1990

A PIXIES album that isn't drenched in murder, mutilation, death, crucifixion, blood, evil and barbarism? It's hard to imagine, but that's exactly what the band ...

Metallica: Cliff 'Banger

Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 April 1988

Cliff 'Em All, the low-key, bootleg-style home video from those METALLICA scumbags, has shifted an astonishing 90,000 copies in the States. Now it's finally made ...

N.W.A.: Some Muthas Do 'Ave 'Em

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 2 June 1990

Rubbing white America's nose in its own racism or blagging big bucks by glorifying gangsterism, NWA are not the FBI-pigs' favourite people. STEVEN 'Wild West' ...