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Waterboys, The: The Waterboys: The Making Of 'The Whole Of The Moon'

Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, July 2008

"Big Music", a massive hit, and the anthem the band are still arguing about. ...

Bloc Party: What's the weirdest chart hit of all time?

Comment by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 11 July 2008

Bloc Party's new single Mercury fires them into the realm of pop eccentricity. Who else resides there? ...

Profile by Robert Sandall, GQ, August 2008

ROCK STARS were never supposed to be regular guys, though that's the way most of the ones who stick around usually end up. It's hard ...

David Byrne

Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2008

IN NEW YORK CITY this summer, David Byrne is everywhere. His installation titled Playing the Building transformed the Battery Maritime Building into a giant musical ...

Bill Drummond: Recorded Music Has Run Its Course

Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 28 August 2008

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Todd Rundgren: Todd Almighty

Interview by Paul Lester, Record Collector, September 2008

As he turns 60 and prepares a new album and UK tour, Todd Rundgren surveys his brilliant 40-year career as a producer, solo artist and ...

Walker Brothers, The: The Walker Brothers: Nite Flights (1978)

Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2008

Chilling, Bowie-beloved experiments in ambient pop. ...

Keane: On Music: Keane – A Successful Turnaround

Comment by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 5 September 2008

Keane are no longer soundtrack material for middle-class tantrums. They now have the sound of a band turning their frowns upside down ...

Cliff Richard: Why Cliff Richard Is The Epitome And Saviour Of Rock & Roll

Comment by John Doran, The Quietus, 20 September 2008

Forget Liam Gallagher, Richard Ashcroft or Paul Weller — Sir Cliff is the best rock star we have, says John 'We Don't Talk Any More' ...

Elliott Murphy at the Hotel Café, L.A.

Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, January 2009

BACK IN 1973, this celebrated Long Island singer/songwriter and the New York Dolls were the twin toasts of the town's still-nascent rock-crit community. ...

Lou Reed: Transformed

Interview by Holly Gleason, American Songwriter, 2 January 2009

HE IS sitting right there on the sidewalk, eating red snapper, heavy-lidded eyes taking in the world around him and engaging with the various people ...

Little Boots is the big sound for 2009

Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 10 January 2009

She's Blackpool's answer to Kylie and a fan of unhinged escapism — Little Boots is a hot prospect ...

Stooges, The: "Come on, Ronnie, tell em' how I feel!"

Special Feature by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 14 January 2009

IT WASN'T always this way. Years ago, TV commercials and film soundtracks didn't feature the guitar sound Ron Asheton pioneered with the Stooges. Even in ...

Florence and the Machine, Lady Gaga: On Music: Lady GaGa and Florence Welch

Comment by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 16 January 2009

Lady GaGa and Florence Welch have been hailed as the new queens of pop. But why pretend they're anything more than cheap imitations? ...

David Bowie, Rolling Stones, The: Guy Peellaert, 1934-2008

Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 29 January 2009

Belgian artist most famous for his rock dreamscapes ...

Psychedelic Furs, The: The Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk

Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2009

IT'S PERHAPS FITTING that a curious, intriguing band whose career was jinxed by ifs and buts should have their second, arguably defining album later hijacked ...

Antony & the Johnsons: Antony and the Johnsons: Southern Theatre, Columbus, Ohio

Live Review by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, 4 February 2009

TRANSCENDENCE IS a goal in so much music - so much art - that it feels too easy, too common. Maybe that's because contemporary "transcendent ...

Jacques Brel: Jacques The Lad: Jacques Brel

Retrospective by Graeme Thomson, The Guardian, 6 February 2009

FIRST THINGS FIRST. Try to forget that Jacques Brel, the Belgian singer-songwriter, is indirectly responsible for Terry Jacks's 'Seasons in the Sun'. Forget also for ...

Secret Machines: Ruby Lounge, Manchester

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 16 February 2009

IN AN IDEAL WORLD, the Secret Machines would be playing in a volcanic crater at Pompeii, or taking the stage in the Rocky Mountains as ...

Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Grinderman: Nick Cave: King of Pain

Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, March 2009

"TEA? PIECE OF CAKE?" says Nick Cave civilly. After an earlier on-tour interview at the Malmaison Hotel, Manchester, he's invited MOJO to his office, a ...