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Moody Blues, The: Singer looks back at five decades of the Moody Blues

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 9 August 2014

JUSTIN HAYWARD began playing rock 'n' roll professionally at 17, back when, he says, people told him "endlessly" that there was no career in it. ...

Rachid: Prototype

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 21 August 2014

COMING TARDY TO the party, lately it's been all about the Weeknd: continuously YouTube playing the video to his hypnotic 'Wicked Games', packing the weed ...

David Stubbs: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany

Book Review by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 22 August 2014

Krautrock is a term that is bandied about alarmingly freely by bloggers, hipsters and, most of all, bands, desperate for its reflected cool — but ...

Kate Bush's Before The Dawn: Eventim Apollo, London

Live Review by John Lewis, Metro, 28 August 2014

IT WAS A comeback that had been hyped up for months. ...

Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats: "I'm terrified of loneliness and poverty. I'm never going back": Bob Geldof on Live Aid, losing Paula and what he really thinks of Bono

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 31 August 2014

He's 'OK, wedge-wise'. But this summer the bolshiest man in pop was back on the road with the cash-strapped Boomtown Rats. Event was with him ...

Hinds, The (formerly The Deers), Deers, The: New band of the week: The Deers

Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 12 September 2014

This all-female Spanish band capture the sound and spirit of C86 via Spector and the Velvets. ...

Lenny Kravitz: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 30 September 2014

LENNY KRAVITZ's iTunes Festival show, a packed and sweltering affair, was effectively the launch party for his new album Strut, which is big on raunchy ...

Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back/Fear Of A Black Planet (Deluxe Editions)

Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, February 2015

BOTH THE music industry and the media have a way of attaching such an air of historical significance to certain records that it's easy to ...

Marc Almond: Let's Talk About Death

Interview by Simon Price, The Independent, 17 February 2015

Simon Price talks to the enigmatic singer about Soho, Soft Cell and mortality. ...

Lulu: "I've had the most unbelievable life"

Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 February 2015

POP STARDOM at 15. Two failed marriages – one to a hard-drinking Bee Gee. An "insane" affair with David Bowie. Turning down Frank Sinatra. Cheating ...

Blondie, Debbie Harry: Debbie Harry on punk, refusing to retire and sex at 69

Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2015

Forty years after Blondie found fame on the New York scene, Debbie Harry is still waving the flag for women in the music business – ...

Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color

Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 21 April 2015

Soul rockers free their minds to explore new psychedelic worlds on their second album ...

Prince's Around the World in a Day at 30

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 22 April 2015

IN THE SPRING of 1985, there were two types of Prince fans – those who boarded the violet-hued bandwagon years before Purple Rain (both the ...

Giorgio Moroder: Dr. Love Machine

Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, MOJO, May 2015

BETWEEN 1974 AND 1986 GIORGIO MORODER TRANSFORMED POP AND DISCO WITH A NEW KIND OF EUPHORIC MACHINE MUSIC. NOW, AFTER HIS 2013 SPOT ON DAFT ...

Rolling Stones, The: Norman Jopling: Shake It Up Baby! Notes From A Pop Music Reporter 1961-1972

Book Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, May 2015

ON MAY 8,1963, an issue of New Record Mirror hit the London streets with a lead story that had enormous unforeseen consequences. ...

How the compact disc lost its shine

Report and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 28 May 2015

It's 30 years since Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms began the CD boom. How did the revolution in music formats come about and what killed ...

David Bowie's DNA: Spaceboy Keeps Swinging

Essay by Steve Pafford, DNA, June 2015

David Bowie was the bisexual alien rock star who sold genderfuck to the world. He's also claimed to be the first pop star to declare ...

Wilco: Star Wars ****

Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 17 July 2015

The Chicago band's ninth album successfully blends Bowie space-glam, Beatles psychedelic singsong and Captain Beefheart weirdness ...

Grace Potter: Anything But Nocturnal

Review and Interview by Holly Gleason, Paste, 11 August 2015

GRACE POTTER SQUEALS midway through her last interview of the day. The mention of Donna Summer's street opera Bad Girls hits a nerve, and the ...

Fanny: The Untold Story of the original Queens of Noise

Retrospective and Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, September 2015

They may have been overshadowed by the Runaways, but nobody did it quite like Fanny, the original all-girl rock'n'roll band who blazed a trail through the ...