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Review by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 20 June 2004

RECORDED in New York over two days in 1968, Astral Weeks still sounds like nothing before or since. Unlike other classic albums, Pet Sounds, say, ...

Yes: Relayer and Yesterdays

Review by Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 19 June 1975

WITH THEIR LAST five albums (including Relayer) reaching Top Five status, Yes are central to the new British Invasion. ...

Laurie Anderson: Big Science

Review by Chris Bohn, NME, 24 April 1982

AS A PERFORMER, Laurie Anderson is little short of phenomenal: a slight Chaplinesque figure, she's as much vaudeville as she is artist, in that she's ...

Lady Gaga: Born This Way (Polydor) ***

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 May 2011

FIRST THINGS FIRST: that cover is simply awful, its adolescent heavy-metal imagery — "ride me, wild one!" — effectively destroying in a single stroke Lady ...

Bobby Womack: Bobby Sox It To Ya

Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 26 February 1977

"HELLO LONDON, it's Bobby Womack on the line." Hello Bobby, you friendly soul. How good to hear your voice again. ...

Eve

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Q, May 2001

Her bite's just as bad as her bark. ...

Jefferson Airplane Taking Off...Fast

Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 15 April 1966

INTERVIEWING an airplane is kind of an absurd idea but interviewing the Jefferson Airplane, a fast rising group from San Francisco, verges on ridiculous. It's ...

Donna Summer: They're Gonna Put Me In The Movies

Interview by David Hancock, National RockStar, 15 January 1977

Donna Summer reveals all to David Hancock ...

David Gilmour: On An Island

Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 3 March 2006

OUT IN CYBERSPACE reunion rumours swirl with niggling persistence, but David Gilmour's perpetual half-smile masks an unyielding nature. Asked about a putative Pink Floyd re-formation ...

Adele: Academy, Leeds

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 April 2011

EVEN IF Adele Adkins's record-breaking 11 weeks at the top of the album chart ends on Sunday – and it looks like the Foo Fighters ...

Hot House: Staying Power

Profile and Interview by Kathryn Flett, i-D, April 1987

IN THE TWO weeks between i-D's attempt to organise an interview with Hot House and actually getting to do it they became – such is ...

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs: Sam The Sham Has Sung In Opera!

Interview by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 30 July 1965

Special from Tracy Thomas in Hollywood ...

Stone Temple Pilots: Community service ordered for Stone Temple Pilots

Report by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 22 April 1994

IT LOOKS LIKE the Stone Temple Pilots, or at least two members of the popular alternative-rock quartet from San Diego, will be rocking Gardner High ...

Billy Bragg: SXSW: Billy Bragg plays songs from new album, plus one inspired by the Bible

Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 15 March 2013

"THE PROBLEM with most protest songs," Billy Bragg said Wednesday afternoon, "is people spend all their time on the protest and not enough on the ...

Paul Weller mines his hot streak

Report by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 30 March 2012

PAUL WELLER has been getting lots of good, but not great, reviews for his latest album, Sonik Kicks. At least Stateside. Ignore them. Sonik Kicks, ...

Sweet Tee & Jazzy Joyce: Queens of the Bronx

Interview by David Toop, The Face, May 1987

"HIP HOP is such a beats orientated music. It's just beats and a bass line. If you put anything else to it like keyboards and ...

Plan B: Who Needs Actions When You Got Words 

Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 16 June 2006

AS EUREKA moments go, Ben Drew's was so obvious it seems perverse that he didn't think of it before. ...

Sound City at SXSW

Film/DVD/TV Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 10 March 2013

THE SOUTH BY Southwest Conference got underway yesterday with SXSW Film, one leg of the tripod extravaganza that also features Interactive and Music components. Twenty-two ...

Laurie Anderson: Big Science (Warner Bros.)

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, July 1982

THIS IS THE avant-garde art music album for folks who generally hate the stuff. Anderson captures the rarely realized potential of modern art music and ...

Snoop (Doggy) Dogg, Dr. Dre, Lady of Rage, The: Bark without bite — Snoop Doggy Dogg & Dr. Dre: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 2 May 1994

Snoop Doggy Dogg comes over like a pup at the Brixton Academy ...