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Prefab Sprout: Paddy McAloon: "I'll do without an audience to make the music I want"

Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 September 2013

Prefab Sprout sold millions of records in the '80s, but singer Paddy McAloon always made music for himself rather than the masses. Now he's back ...

Kitchens of Distinction: An Accidental Comeback: Reassembling Kitchens of Distinction

Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 September 2013

The return of Kitchens of Distinction was unexpected, even for the band. Wyndham Wallace joins them for their first face-to-face interview together in almost two ...

Sting: The Last Ship

Review by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, 28 September 2013

THE ARTIST Originally Known As Gordon Sumner is just about the only musician bar Justin Bieber who can be guaranteed bad notices for breathing. This, ...

Arcade Fire: Reflektor

Review by Mike Diver, Clash, 30 September 2013

ARCADE FIRE's penchant for an album-uniting concept is nothing new. 2010's multi-award-winning The Suburbs arrived informed by its makers' upbringing, at the fringes of bigger-city ...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Frankie Says Pop Revolution

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Record Collector, January 2014

It's easy to forget how big an explosion Frankie Goes To Hollywood caused in the '80s. Rob Hughes peers through the cracked windows of the ...

Chrome: Half Machine From The Sun (King of Spades)

Review by Frances Morgan, The Wire, January 2014

CHROME's Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves were released in 1978 and 1979, which makes them contemporaries of Mad Max, Philip K Dick's VALIS, ...

Morrissey: "The reports of my death have been greatly understated...".

Report by David Cavanagh, Uncut, January 2014

EVEN BY HIS STANDARDS, 2013 has been a bizarre year for noted author and sometime recording artist Steven Patrick Morrissey. After 11 months of chaos, ...

Lou Reed: A Last Waltz on the Wild Side

Memoir by Ed McCormack, Vanity Fair, 13 January 2014

In an excerpt from his in-progress memoir, former Rolling Stone writer Ed McCormack remembers his friend Lou Reed, and the small theft and turn on ...

Nice, The, Davy O'List: Davy O'List

Interview by David Cavanagh, Uncut, February 2014

Davy O'List was in with the in-crowd — a prog prodigy in The Nice, a founder of Roxy Music, the proud owner of Judy Garland’s ...

David Bowie: Me and David: An Interview with Photographer Mick Rock

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Rise of David Bowie' (Taschen), February 2014

YOU COULDN'T make the name up: as the man himself says in the interview that follows, "Mick Rock" sounds like a cartoon character, a distillation ...

David Bowie: Let's Not Pretend: David Bowie's Brit Award was for being alive

Comment by James Medd, New Statesman, 20 February 2014

Musicians and pundits need to get over their obsessive, nostalgic hero-worship. In 2014, David Bowie is irrelevant. ...

Stooges, The, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Destroy All Monsters: Scott Asheton, 1949-2014

Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 17 March 2014

All-action drummer who was a mainstay of the Stooges both in their early years and during later reunions   ...

The State of the Rock Chick: Individual Style or Manufactured Fashion?

Comment by Rachel Felder, Vanity Fair, 10 April 2014

AS USUAL, this year's Coachella lineup includes a handful of female artists – like Haim, Lorde, and Lana Del Rey – who look as good ...

David Bowie: "Bowie Was Like Orson Welles": Diamond Dogs at 40

Interview by David Buckley, MOJO, 24 April 2014

On the 40th anniversary of its release, engineer Andy Morris delivers the inside skinny on Bowie's wildest album. ...

Luther Vandross: Make Me Over: On Luther Vandross

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 29 April 2014

THE GREAT SOUL SINGER, producer and interpreter of classic material Luther Vandross would've been sixty-three years old this month. ...

Beyoncé: Knowles' House Party: Beyoncé: The O2, London ****

Live Review by Jude Rogers, Q, May 2014

Pop superstar takes her Mrs Carter tour to the next level in London ...

Janelle Monáe: The Institute, Birmingham

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 9 May 2014

"JANELLE! MON-ÁE!" yells the Birmingham crowd as the singer is pushed on in a wheelchair, wearing a straitjacket. She leaps up, throwing off the garment ...

Roddy Frame: Candid Camera: Roddy Frame opens up on new album Seven Dials

Report and Interview by Graeme Thomson, The Herald, 9 May 2014

THERE IS A LINE in 'White Pony', the opening track on Roddy Frame's fine new album, which says a mouthful. It goes like this: "Sometimes ...

Lykke Li: Village Underground, EC2

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 13 May 2014

IN LYKKE LI's poetically gloomy world view, love is a dark rainbow of despair with a big pot of bitter disappointment at the end. At ...

Roddy Frame: Seven Dials

Review and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, June 2014

IT'S BEEN EIGHT years since Roddy Frame's last album, Western Skies, and over 30 since his arrival as a precocious prodigy from East Kilbride, the ...