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Robert Plant: Last of the Red-Hot Rock Stars

Report and Interview by Deborah Frost, Spin, September 1993

"CAMION! CAMION!" comes the cry from the front seat of the rented Mercedes wagon. "I don't have time to die!" ...

Aphex Twin: Techno Wars: A House Divided Over Beats

Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 13 March 1994

ONLY A FEW years ago, it was easy to define techno as a fast-paced dance music based on electronic textures. ...

Aphex Twin, µ-ziq, Daniel Pemberton: Up to something in the bedroom

Report and Interview by David Toop, The Times, 29 April 1994

They're hot in the clubs, but low in social skills. David Toop meets techno's bores with attitude ...

Oasis: Shake'n'vac

Report and Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, August 1994

They rant against rock'n'rollers in leather keks, yet their hotel-trashing, drug-snorting lifestyle is becoming legendary. Are Oasis hypocrites or Britain's most sussed rock band? ...

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Washington's State

Report and Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995

If Cobain's death shook the rock world, its impact on his hometown went off the scales. BARBARA ELLEN visited Seattle to find out how much ...

Oasis: The Trouble Boys

Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 18 May 1995

OASIS CROSS THE ATLANTIC WITH A HOT RECORD, TWO BATTLING BROTHERS AND ATTITUDE TO SPARE. ...

Chemical Brothers, The, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Andrew Weatherall, DJ Shadow, Wild Bunch, The, Dreadzone, Renegade Soundwave, Earthling: Trip Hop: Where The Beats Have No Name

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, July 1995

Trip-hop is now part of pop's international language — but the pioneers of Britain's most successful musical export in years refuse to admit it exists... ...

Popzilla: SFX Entertainment

Report and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 23 March 1998

How one man is gobbling up the nation's concert business – and what it could mean for you. ...

Spice Girls: The Spice Girls: The Girls Can't Help It

Report and Interview by Jerry Thackray, Vox, May 1998

They were supposed to have sunk without a trace by now, but it seems that everyone still wants a piece of the SPICE GIRLS. Certainly ...

All Saints: Follow That Band!

Report and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Q, May 1998

Envy All Saints, but only a little bit, because Brit Awards mean nothing when you're in Miami, working your hits off. Lucy O'Brien is along ...

Lightning Seeds, The: Three Lions '98: They Shoot, They Roar!

Report and Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 16 May 1998

Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land! Oh yes, we're gonna win the World Cup. Why? Because FRANK SKINNER, DAVID BADDIEL & IAN BROUDIE have updated Three Lions' — ...

Ash, U2: U2 and Ash: I was there, helping to make history. (I just wish I hadn't been scratching my chin)

Report and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 24 May 1998

THE PHONE rings at 10.30 on a Monday night. It is Bono. "We're going to Belfast tomorrow night," he says, "and we're trying to come ...

Limp Bizkit: Among the Mooks

Report and Interview by RJ Smith, The New York Times, 6 August 2000

As entertainment entrepreneurs align the fantasy lands of rap, rock, wrestling and pornography, a generation of fans grows ever more brutish. ...

Alejandro Escovedo Under the Influence

Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 25 April 2001

ON MARCH 22, 1998, Alejandro Escovedo introduced a new song at La Zona Rosa in his hometown of Austin, Texas. He was dressed cowboy-formal in ...

Usher: Rise of the House of Usher

Report and Interview by Ben Thompson, Telegraph Magazine, July 2001

APPEARING ON Channel 4's Richard Blackwood Show during his last visit to Britain, clean-cut US R&B star Usher Raymond IV startled the crowd with the ...

Guns N' Roses: Didn't You Used To Be Axl Rose?

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 2001

When the reclusive Guns 'N Roses star re-emerged last year, even old band mates didn't recognise him. After a decade of hiring and firing, an ...

Hives, The: The Hives: Could this cocksure Swedish pop-punk quintet be the new Strokes?

Report and Interview by Toby Manning, Blender, June 2002

DESPITE THEIR immaculate black-and-white shirt-tie-and-shoes ensemble, Swedish garage-rockers the Hives have a disconcerting habit of stripping in front of strangers. ...

Gwyneth Herbert: From bistro waitress to jazz festival star

Report and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 13 July 2004

Pub gigs pay off as "Britain's Norah Jones" is chosen to open concert ...

Turbonegro: Clowns Of Evil Go on the Rampage

Report and Interview by Chris Campion, Observer Music Monthly, May 2005

THE STREETS OF Hamburg are awash with piss and broken bottles and cock-eyed sailor boys with queer intentions. A two thousand-strong army of Turbonegro fans ...

Kurt Cobain: Suicide Blond

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, August 2005

Gus Van Sant befriended Kurt Cobain during his rise to global stardom. Now the director has made a film based on the grunge superstar's harrowing ...