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Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 17 July 2015

The Chicago band's ninth album successfully blends Bowie space-glam, Beatles psychedelic singsong and Captain Beefheart weirdness ...

Cheap Trick: Dream Police (Epic)

Review by Paul Rambali, NME, 22 September 1979

BRIEFLY, THIS is the fifth time in four years that Cheap Trick have vented their prodigious energies. Dream Police was made before Live At The Budokan made Cheap Trick ...

Elton John: Blue Moves (Rocket)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1977

Elton Cops Some ZZZ's ...

Busted: A Present For Everyone

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 15 January 2004

IT IS, OF COURSE, the awkward-looking blonde one who is the genius behind Busted. And rest assured that I don't use the word "genius" lightly. ...

Fanny: Fanny Hill (Reprise 2058)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 13 April 1972

FANNY HAVE finally made it: their new album is full of the best mainstream rock and roll I've heard so far this year. As well ...

Broken Bells: Broken Bells

Review by Johnny Sharp, bbc.co.uk, 9 March 2010

A sweet'n'sour and head-spinningly trippy set from Messrs Mercer and Burton. ...

M. Ward: M Ward: Transistor Radio

Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2005

Fourth album from Portland dream-catcher follows up 2003's Transfiguration Of Vincent. ...

Blur: Blur (Food/Parlophone 14tks/57mins)

Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 8 February 1997

Get this. BLUR have gone lo-fi. They're slumming it. And they might just have made their finest album to date... ...

Ken Scott

Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, July 1990

FOR OVER 25 years, English-born Ken Scott has been in recording studios working with the legends of rock. Throughout the Sixties and Seventies, Scott was ...

Oasis: Don't Believe The Truth

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 31 May 2005

IT SEEMS TO BE that the ever-cyclical, ever-fickle music press is at that point in its orbit where Oasis are deemed cool again. People are ...

Wings: Venus And Mars (Capitol SMAS 11419)

Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, September 1975

McCartney: Looking Glass Hero ...

Harry Nilsson

Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1993

2010 note: Harry Nilsson succumbed to heart failure and died on January 15, 1994, less than six months after this interview took place. ...

XTC: Drums And Wires (Virgin)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, 18 August 1979

Something Like The Best ...

Hanson: Boys Are for Noise: Hanson Busts Out

Profile by Erik Himmelsbach, L.A. Weekly, 9 June 2000

LIKE MANY of us, comedian Jay Mohr has a Hanson fixation. "That’s the hottest kid I’ve seen in my life," he said, referring to vocalist ...

BALL, Bongwater: Kramer Versus Kramer

Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 8 April 1989

Ex-Butthole Surfer mark Kramer turns both cheeks — BALL and Bongwater — to Ralph Traitor. ...

Phish: Rise Of The Phishheads

Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1996

ON A STARRY SUMMER NIGHT at Bearsville Studios, New York, the four members of Phish are bracing themselves for the inevitable Grateful Dead question. ...

The Black Crowes: Black Crowes: By Your Side

Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 1999

THIS ALBUM rocks. And rolls. And nigh on rollicks. Where their last album loped, this one struts. The record it's most like is their 1990 ...

Ringo Starr, Wings: Paul McCartney: Band On The Run/Ringo Starr: Ringo

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 19 January 1974

RINGO STARR is a wonderful person. His new album proves it. ...

Tony Joe White: Tony Joe Declares — Ah'm Aginst Unhealthy Things!

Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 1 August 1970

LISTENING TO Tony Joe White speak is like taking an excursion deep into the man's boots via the steamy swamps of his native Louisiana, where ...

Gnarls Barkley: Say Yes To Droogs!

Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, June 2006

Welcome Gnarls Barkley, The Hip Hop Superband Who've Scored The Planet's First Download-Only Number 1. ...