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Bright Eyes: Lifted, Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (Wichita)

Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2002

Nebraskan boy wonder bunkers down for apocalypse. ...

Olivia Tremor Control, The: The Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage: Animation Music by the Olivia Tremor Control (Flydaddy)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Spin, April 1999

IF APPLES in Stereo are the Elephant 6 movement's white-gloved archivists, and Neutral Milk Hotel are the resident primitive surrealists, then the Olivia Tremor Control ...

Turin Brakes: Ether Song (Source) ****

Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 28 February 2003

THIS MERCURY- and Brits-nominated duo have a patina of hipness, but their appearance on the launch night of BBC3 unmasked them as aspiring David Grays, ...

Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out (Dacca) ****

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 September 1970

Stones give new vitality to some old numbers ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for February 2003

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, February 2003

RADIO SHOW OF THE MONTH ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for October 2002

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, October 2002

ALBUMS O' THE MONTH! ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for July 2002

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, July 2002

GIGS O' THE MONTH! ...

Steve Winwood: About Time

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 June 2003

HIS FIRST ALBUM in six years finds Steve Winwood striking out in the direction of Latin America, using a core unit of jazz guitarist Jose ...

The Who: Live At Leeds (Track)

Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 30 May 1970

'Young Man'; 'Substitute'; 'Summertime Blues'; 'Shakin' All Over'; 'My Generation'; 'Magic Bus'. ...

Norah Jones: Come Away With Me (EMI Capitol)

Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, February 2002

NORAH JONES may not be up there with Wolf J Flywheel in the memorable moniker stakes, but mark it well. Produced by Arif Mardin, this ...

J. Geils Band: The Morning After (Atlantic)

Review by Nick Tosches, Phonograph Record, January 1972

GOOD HARD fast kool kat musick is the best kind. Anything without any metaphysical pretentions and with a lot of rebop raunch. ...

Disclosure: Settle

Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 3 June 2013

CLUBLAND HAS been polarised between two dispiriting extremes for close on a decade now. If the DJ isn't playing twitchy, edgy, introspective grime or dubstep, ...

Housemartins, The: The Housemartins: London 0 Hull 4

Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, 24 May 2009

LIKE THE all-conquering Madness during the first half of the '80s, the Housemartins pulled off the admirable trick of shoehorning well-considered social comment into the ...

Slade: Slade Alive!

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, 1 October 1972

SLADE HAVE BEEN responsible for some excellent singles, but as for this album, forget it. ...

Various Artists: The Stax Story — Volumes 1&2 (Stax)

Review by Cliff White, Let It Rock, August 1975

COMPILATION ALBUMS are like Chinese meals. A wise choice of carefully balanced ingredients can be delicious: sometimes you just get heartburn. ...

Circle Jerks: Group Sex (Frontier)

Review by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, March 1981

ONE OF THE real top great beauties of Anglo punk, the early, was that there was never a lyric sheet. Singers sang breakneck as they ...

Neil Young: Silver & Gold (Reprise)

Review by RJ Smith, Spin, June 2000

"I DON'T KNOW what I'm doing/My software's not compatible with you," Neil Young moans on 'Without Rings', the last song on his 36th (!) record. ...

Richard Buckner: Devotion + Doubt

Review by Holly George-Warren, Rolling Stone, 20 March 1997

ON THE STARK and spacious Devotion + Doubt, Richard Buckner's aching vocals stand weather-beaten but unbowed, like a lone saguaro on the Mojave. And just ...

Mogwai: Ten Rapid (Jetset 9tks/33 mins)

Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 10 May 1997

MONSTER CRAZY! ...

La's, The: The La's: Callin' All

Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 10 May 2010

Shows how a lasting reputation can be founded upon one lucky strike. ...