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Fleet Foxes: How Fleet Foxes are handling high expectations

Profile and Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 16 June 2011

Huge success began a steep learning curve for the Seattle band. Bandleader Robin Pecknold explains how the second album put the band in a "dark ...

Steve Miller

Profile and Interview by John Tobler, NME, 22 May 1976

"I WASN'T disturbed by having a hit – I was exhausted! Before The Joker became successful we'd done 220 concerts in the previous year. Then ...

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: I'm Not Gonna Crack!

Profile and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Vox, July 1992

Poisoned by the chalice of instant success, bedridden with road-rash after a ton of amp-smashingly intense gigs – what's happened to Nirvana's tortured singer and ...

Gloria Estefan: Treasure Island Ahoy!

Profile and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, October 1989

BASKING IN FLORIDA'S almost blood temperature waters, with the ice cream-coloured Miami Beach architecture in the background, the 50-acre, man-made haven of Star Island is ...

Shooting Stars: Denny Bruce Produced Plenty Of Legends – But Never Became One

Profile and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, LA New Times, 11 September 1997

STROLL THROUGH Denny Bruce's home on a hillside north of Sunset Boulevard, and you wander through mementos of a career spent nurturing greatness. ...

Iron Maiden

Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 23 February 1980

HEAVY METAL has been around for as long as I can remember. It grew from the blues and just never died despite years of cold ...

Velvet Revolver: And Now Let's Go Over to the Leather Report: Velvet Revolver

Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, March 2008

IF THERE'S A definition of a rock star, Scott Weiland is it. The ever-present Aviator sunglasses; the hip-jutting swagger; the slow croak of an LA ...

Def Leppard: Loadsamoney!!

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, May 1988

They talk in units of a million. They plan tours like military invasions. They know the rules, Def Leppard: it takes craft, hard graft, spectacle ...

Paul Anka: The Rebirth Of Paul Anka

Profile and Interview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, 1 September 1974

'People need songs about real, human things...' ...

Roxy Music

Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 29 July 1972

ALMOST a year ago to the week, Bryan Ferry sat in a council flat in Shepherds Bush and explained his timetable for the next year. ...

LTJ Bukem: "Don't Miss Out on a Good Thing"

Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, September 1995

That's what everyone's saying about LTJ Bukem — the man whose pioneering, melodic take on breakbeats has catapulted him into the drum n' bass super ...

Bobby McFerrin

Profile and Interview by Tim Page, Newsday, 30 July 1995

CONDUCTING IS the most mysterious of musical talents. Who hasn't wondered what that person was really doing up there anyway, making those funny faces, testing ...

Low Anthem, The: The Low Anthem: Children of the Evolution

Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, March 2010

In the world of Americana, 2009'ss Oh My God, Charlie Darwin marked out the Low Anthem as true originals of the species. In Washington D.C., ...

Jamiroquai's Automaton

Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Virgin Records, March 2017

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL spring day in a quiet corner of the English countryside. Water gently runs in a stream, birds cheerfully sing in the trees ...

Todd Rundgren: Veg-o-Matic Into the Void

Profile and Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, October 1975

I WOULD MUCH prefer Todd Rundgren had a squirrelly girlfriend – you know, one of those emaciated things that is always curled up cross-legged with ...

Jack Nitzsche: For Composer Jack Nitzsche, It's Never Too Late To Score With The Underground

Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, LA New Times, 9 April 1998

"I think they wanted a score that was action and adventure. Scary suspense and all that shit. And I said, 'Fuck that. Let's put some ...

Cheap Trick: Presenting Cheap Trick: A Musical In Eleven Years

Profile and Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, August 1978

Without a doubt, Cheap Trick has definite shortcomings as a band. They're certainly not perfect. However, they've now got three albums in their catalogue and ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2004

Clowntime is over for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the L.A. punks who defied death, grunge and a burning crack den to play the music ...

Blues Traveler: Road Warriors

Profile and Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 17 March 1995

IT'S AN unseasonably warm Halloween weekend outside the Hollywood Palladium, as tens of thousands slowly stream by in a typical Friday night procession of Sunset ...

Pet Shop Boys: Outsiderdom: The Pet Shop Boys

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, August 1988

The Pet Shop Boys have played live once, never toured and only grudgingly socialize with the pop fraternity. They've stoutly refused to take the conventional ...