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Mick Jagger: Christopher Andersen: Mick – The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger

Book Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 17 August 2012

Christopher Andersen's biography of Mick Jagger is little more than an anthology of juicy gossip. ...

Reeves Gabrels, Cure, The: Reeves Gabrels: "Our Weird American Cousin"

Report and Interview by Daryl Sanders, The East Nashvillian, September 2012

HOW EAST NASHVILLE GUITAR GODREEVES GABRELSBECAME THE NEWEST MEMBER OF ICONIC BRITISH ROCK BANDTHE CURE ...

Aimee Mann: The Discreet Charm of Aimee Mann: An Interview

Interview by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, September 2012

A freewheeling chat, taking in Mann's new Charmer, her talented collaborators, reality TV, turning up the treble, Laura Linney's focus, Jack Kerouac's drying-out and women's ...

Lady Gaga: This Megalith Reality: Lady Gaga Live

Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 11 September 2012

I KNOW IT'S COMING, but when it finally does it's different to how I expected. It's far worse. Less than real.  ...

David Bowie: Bowie at Live Aid

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, January 2013

EVERYBODY REMEMBERS that Queen stole the show at Live Aid, but it's only insiders like "event co-ordinator" Pete Smith who know how David Bowie saved ...

Kraftwerk: Why Kraftwerk Are Still The World's Most Influential Band

Retrospective by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 27 January 2013

Kraftwerk's fusion of art, beats and electronics has become a template copied by musicians everywhere. Now they plan to take London's Tate Modern by storm ...

Kraftwerk: Ladies und Gentlemen, the future has arrived

Retrospective by David Stubbs, The Independent, 27 January 2013

To the unenlightened (i.e. most of us), they were just naff. Now, with good reason, they are hailed as prophets. David Stubbs hails synthpop pioneers ...

David Bowie: Who is David Bowie? A Guide to the V&A retrospective

Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 16 February 2013

As a blockbuster exhibition, David Bowie is, gets under way at the V&A, Sean O'Hagan dissects the pop icon's influences – and reveals the ideas ...

David Bowie: The Next Day

Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 26 February 2013

Chris Roberts is inspired out of his clothes and on to the dancefloor by David Bowie's glorious return. ...

David Bowie: The Next Day

Review by Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, 27 February 2013

The return of the Thin White Duke after a ten year silence does not disappoint ...

Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Stooges, The: Iggy & The Stooges: Gimme Danger

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2013

IT'S 7,000 KILOMETRES from Michigan Palace, Detroit, to The Prince's Palace, Monaco, but for Stooges guitarist James Williamson, the emotional distance is even greater. One ...

Jake Bugg, Harry Styles: So Jake Bugg is authentic and Harry Styles is a fake? I don't think so…

Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 3 March 2013

In the great fabricated conflict between Jake Bugg and Harry Styles, it's the perversely sophisticated One Direction star who really represents what's left of pop. ...

David Bowie: The Singer Who Fell to Earth

Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 6 March 2013

ON 'THE STARS (ARE OUT TONIGHT)', the new single from David Bowie's comeback album, The Next Day, one line jumps out: "We will never be ...

David Bowie: When Bowie met Burroughs

Retrospective by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 9 March 2013

ON 28 FEBRUARY 1974, Rolling Stone magazine published a remarkable encounter between David Bowie and William Burroughs. Entitled "Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman", the event had been hosted ...

Alabama Shakes' Unlikely Triumph

Interview by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 14 March 2013

BRITTANY HOWARD, the powerhouse 24-year-old frontwoman for Alabama Shakes, isn't much for red carpets. ...

John Grant: 'This Addictive Personality Permeates My Entire Being'

Interview by Nick Hasted, Independent on Sunday, 24 March 2013

After fighting drug problems, John Grant declared on stage that he was HIV-positive. Nick Hasted meets a very candid indie star ...

David Bowie: Highlights of David Bowie Is: V&A, London

Review by Kate Allen, Rock's Backpages, 25 March 2013

I'VE NEVER been a Bowie-phile, but after visiting the David Bowie is exhibition at the V&A last week, it's difficult not to feel as though such ...

David Bowie: The Next Day

Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, April 2013

Here he is, not quite dying. The new Bowie is alive and well and mildly exasperated, says Mark Paytress. ...

David Bowie, Todd Rundgren: The Dame and The Runt: A Tale of Two Chameleons

Comment by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, 24 April 2013

A COUPLE OF pensioners have been popping in for sleepovers lately, fitter than fiddles and bouncing with frankly disgraceful enthusiasm. Judging by their latest recorded ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Iggy and the Stooges: Ready To Die

Review by John Lewis, Metro, 26 April 2013

ONE MIGHT mock Iggy Pop for advertising car insurance, but the truth is that being a rock legend doesn't come with a guaranteed stipend: his ...