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U2: In Trump's country: U2 takes Joshua Tree politics back on the road

Live Review by Caryn Rose, salon.com, 16 May 2017

30 years after their blisteringly political album and tour, U2 opts for subtle anti-Trump imagery over big speeches. ...

Leftfield: O2 Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 16 May 2017

Steam rose from a crowd determined to rave, whatever their age. By the finale, soaked bodies littered the floor of the foyer ...

André Cymone, Prince: André Cymone: Keeping the Purple One's Spirit Alive

Interview by Jeff Weiss, LA Weekly, 17 May 2017

IT'S BEEN NEARLY 400 DAYS since Prince passed and his former bandmate, surrogate brother and best friend still can't quite believe that he's gone. To ...

Rod Stewart: Sir Rod Stewart: "Maggie May? I prefer Theresa May!"

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 May 2017

Wake up, Theresa, I think I've got something to say to you... which is that you may be PM, Mrs May, but you're also "a fair ...

Liam Gallagher: O2 Ritz, Manchester

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 31 May 2017

Manchester's most irascible son makes an emotional return. ...

Benjamin Booker: How I turned my personal meltdown into a rallying cry for black America

Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 21 June 2017

He was overweight, abusing drugs and fleeing from his self-harming past. So he took all his problems – and turned them into the sensational new ...

Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer: Song from the Future: The Story of Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's 'I Feel Love'

Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 June 2017

Forty years after its release, the ingenious studio gurus behind the robot-funk masterpiece talk about how it came to be. ...

Metallica: Michael Alago, Who Signed Metallica and White Zombie, Gets the Documentary Treatment in Who the F**k Is That Guy?

Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Variety, 21 July 2017

IF THE HISTORIES of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre warrant four hours of prime HBO real estate in The Defiant Ones, then certainly Michael Alago, ...

Jess Glynne: Falkirk Stadium, Scotland

Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Daily Mail, 19 August 2017

Jess Glynne offers a sprinkling of magic to unsunny Stirlingshire, but inevitably for an artist still touring her first record, the handful of killer comes ...

Cory Beers Cimbalom Band: A musical mix from Hungary: Cimbalom at Union Station

Report by Kirk Silsbee, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 22 September 2017

UNION STATION HAS long been a repository of emotional memory and civic history. ...

Terence Trent D'Arby, Sananda Maitreya: Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: "It was that or death"

Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 October 2017

In 1987, his debut album saw him hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson and Prince — but then his star crashed and burned. He ...

Gram Parsons, Byrds, The, Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou Harris: How the Ghost of Gram Parsons haunts Alt-Country

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, January 2018

GRAM PARSONS didn't care much for the term "country-rock". And he wasn't thrilled by some of the more candy-coated bands who were able to capitalize ...

Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain: Two Temple Place, London

Review by John L. Walters, Eye, 25 February 2018

Rhythm & Reaction gets under the skin of a British love affair with American jazz 27 January — 22 April 2018 ...

Cliff White 1945-2018

Obituary by Bill Millar, Now Dig This, March 2018

Bill Millar raises a glass to the well-known and highly respected record industry veteran, long-time R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul and blues fan who passed ...

Cecil Taylor: Culture Spinach and Chaos Theory

Comment by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, April 2018

ONCE I DECIDED to write something on Cecil Taylor moving on to the next phase, I went back and counted the number of his albums ...

Thee Hypnotics' Come down heavy: a dispatch from the rock'n'roll frontline

Sleeve notes by Julian Marszalek, Beggars Banquet, April 2018

EVEN BY THEIR own admission, the coruscating rock'n'roll explosion that was Thee Hypnotics was never built to last. ...

Boards Of Canada: Why Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the '90s

Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 April 2018

Unlocking the mysteries behind the Scottish electronic duo's hallucinatory classic, which turns 20 this month ...

Big In Japan, Julian Cope, Dead Or Alive, Deaf School, Echo & The Bunnymen, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, La's, The, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Teardrop Explodes, The, Wah!, Pete Wylie, Pink Industry, Dalek I Love You: Eric's, Probe and the Armadillo: The Story Of Liverpool Music, 1976-1988

Retrospective and Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 10 April 2018

Through a series of interviews, Patrick Clarke charts the history of Liverpool's brilliant, bitter and burgeoning music scene of 1976-1988, from Eric's and Probe to ...

Dua Lipa: SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 22 April 2018

Dua's great Lipa forward: the charismatic pop star du jour proves herself to the hangar born on the opening night of her first arena tour. ...

Courtney Marie Andrews: Islington Assembly Rooms, London

Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 25 April 2018

PICKING UP THE gong for International Artist of the Year at the recent UK Americana Awards, Arizona's Courtney Marie Andrews came to Islington with expectations ...