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Arctic Monkeys: Fast and Furious: Arctic Monkeys

Report and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 30 September 2005

IT'S A RADIANT late September day outside a recording studio in rural Lincolnshire. Summer is still clinging on by its fingertips, a lawnmower purrs in ...

Rock Star: Supernova is a High-Octane Rush

Report and Interview by Fred Shuster, Los Angeles Daily News, 15 August 2006

ON ROCK STAR: SUPERNOVA, the series that notches the American Idol formula up to 11, what you'll see on TV tonight is only the half ...

Newton Faulkner: Finger-Pickin' Good

Report and Interview by Robin Eggar, Sunday Times, 22 July 2007

His astonishing virtuoso technique makes Newton Faulkner the cream of the guitar-pop crop. ...

Metallica: Magnetic Metallica

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, July 2008

THERE IS a certain grim irony to the news, announced last week, that Metallica’s latest album Death Magnetic will be released in September in a ...

Bill Drummond: Pop's prankster heads for destruction

Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2008

WITH BILL Drummond now, you feel, it's very much a case of "cometh the time, cometh the man". ...

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monsters

Report and Interview by William Shaw, Q, September 2008

In the old days, Metallica were hard-drinking, groupie-shagging rock pigs. Today, they're all about pre-gig yoga sessions, surfing and being good dads. On the merch ...

The View: Grown-Up and Mystical: The View

Report and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 30 January 2009

THE HOUSE-TO-HOUSE search of his old haunts in Dundee has been completed, and here comes The View's singer Kyle Falconer. ...

How The Fanzine Refused To Die

Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 2 February 2009

Blogs are the cheapest, fastest and easiest way to get your music writing out there — but that hasn't stopped a new generation of writers picking ...

Azealia Banks, Dominique Young Unique, Reema Major, Lady Leshurr, Kreayshawn: Azealia Banks and the charge of the women MCs

Report and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 January 2012

Watch out, Nicki Minaj, there's a host of feisty, eccentric female rappers on your trail – and not all of them are here to pay their ...

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 ...

Iggy Azalea: One to watch: Iggy Azalea

Report and Interview by Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 24 March 2013

IGGY AZALEA has a highly developed sense of the absurd. She saw paparazzi outside her hotel this morning and felt obliged to put on dark ...

Sheryl Crow

Report and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, March 2014

SHERYL CROW'S made a country album, they said. She's living down there in Nashville, hanging out with Vince Gill and Brad Paisley, going to church ...

Ramones, The: Marky Ramone Gabba Gabbas Away in New Memoir

Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 22 January 2015

IN HIS BAND of Bruddahs, Marky Ramone's primary role was that of drummer, the pounding heartbeat and engine of so many of the legendary punk-rock ...