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A Guy Called Gerald, Goldie: Jungle!: The Last Dance Underground

Report by Kodwo Eshun, i-D, May 1994

Jungle is a fierce and frenzied soundtrack to inner city Britain in '94. Based around raw, ragga-influenced white labels, raves and pirate radio stations, it's ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Byrds, The, Canned Heat, Electric Flag, Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Soft Machine, Rationals, The: Rock & Roll Crusader: Detroit

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 1 March 1968

DETROIT IS turning into ROCK CITY before our eyes, and we love it! All over the country groups are being "discovered, " and cities like ...

Gang of Four, Pop Group, The, Public Image Ltd, Slits, The, Throbbing Gristle: Post Punk's Not Dead!: ATTACK!

Retrospective by Mark Paytress, MOJO, January 2004

The avant-garde post-'77 post-punk sound was a revolutionary amalgam of funk, punk, disco and reggae. Mark Paytress explains the battle plan. ...

Rodney Bingenheimer: A Child of the Myth

Profile and Interview by Lisa Jane Persky, LA Weekly, May 1979

KEEPING MY fingers on the minimal pulse of the musical movement in L.A. which, gratefully, is growing, I cannot ignore one of its prime gardeners. ...

Pink Floyd, Move, The, Tomorrow, Soft Machine, Mick Farren, Arthur Brown: We Have Lift Off!

Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004

In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...

Spirit, Randy California: California Dreaming: The Wild and Tragic Story of Spirit

Retrospective by Max Bell, Classic Rock, 18 June 2014

Led by mercurial guitarist Randy California, Spirit were buddies of Jimi Hendrix and praised by Led Zeppelin. But their promise would collapse in blur of ...

Def Leppard, Girlschool, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Motörhead, Saxon, Tygers of Pan Tang, Venom, Sledgehammer, Diamond Head: NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks

Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007

Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...

New York Dolls: Make-up America!

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, June 2006

In 1971 Manhattan, five teenage toughs in make-up, tried to kick-start the punk revolution. By 1976 the New York Dolls seemed finished, poleaxed by drugs, ...

Mamas and The Papas, The, John Phillips: King of the Wild Frontier: Papa John Phillips

Retrospective and Interview by Chris Campion, Observer Music Monthly, 15 March 2009

IN AUGUST 1977, John Phillips was supposed to be recording the album with Keith Richards that would mark his comeback. ...

A Guy Called Gerald, Bomb The Bass, Happy Mondays, Paul Oakenfold, Oasis, Orbital, Primal Scream, Andrew Weatherall, T-Coy, Danny Rampling: Acid House: '88 State

Retrospective and Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 25 April 1998

Disco biscuits, gurning, raves, sartorial bonkersness, and, um, Guru Josh! The ACID HOUSE scene brought us many things when it exploded in 1988; it also ...

Cypress Hill, House Of Pain, Funkdoobiest: Cypress Hill, House of Pain and Funkdoobiest: The View From Cypress Hill

Report and Interview by RJ Smith, LA Weekly, 17 June 1993

One Nation Under An Overpass ...

Dr. John: Retropop Scene: 
Emmett, Mac and Peter Coyote

Memoir by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Journalist, 1 May 1996

I. NEW YORK, October 27, 1971 Emmett Grogan sent Tuesday Weld home early. He didn't like all the publicity that was going around about the two ...