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Squeeze: The Likely Lads Of British Rock

Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, loudersound.com, 16 March 2016

From bittersweet songs about first love and wanking to lambasting the Prime Minister live on TV, Squeeze are the working-class band that cool cats still love. ...

Iron Maiden: Maiden Voyage: Inside Iron Maiden's Book Of Souls Tour

Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Audience, April 2016

SEEN FROM the stage, an Iron Maiden concert is an ocean of Maiden t-shirts, with thousands of devotees proudly displaying various incarnations of the band's ...

Kanye West: The Life Of Pablo (GOOD Music/Def Jam)

Review by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, April 2016

The seventh album by Kanye West dismantles the traditional concept of the album while laying bare its author's inner conflicts. ...

David Bowie: The David Bowie tribute concerts

Review by Caryn Rose, Live Nation TV, 5 April 2016

LAST JANUARY, when promoter Michael Dorf announced that he'd finally received permission from David Bowie to be the subject of his annual tribute benefit concert, ...

Prince: How Prince's Androgynous Genius Changed the Way We Think About Music and Gender

Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 April 2016

His clothes, songwriting, and production prowess all played a part in breaking through any and every type of convention. ...

Beyoncé's Lemonade is an object lesson in collaboration

Comment by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 28 April 2016

She's the centripetal force that marshals the likes of Robert Plant, Jack White, Kendrick Lamar and MNEK to craft exquisite pop music that transcends boundaries ...

Sex Pistols, The, Patti Smith: Provincial Gains: Sex Pistols in the Early Summer of '76

Book Excerpt by Clinton Heylin, 'Anarchy in the Year Zero' (Route Books), May 2016

"The sound is a mean cacophony, not unreminiscent of Bowie's early Spiders, the material a mixture of Anglo-American teen punk classics – the Stooges' 'No ...

Iggy Pop: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 May 2016

Iggy Pop is bloodied but unbowed when he leaves the stage of the RAH says Julian Marszalek. ...

Scarlet Fantastic: An Interview with Maggie K de Monde

Interview by Nicky Charlish, Spindle, 6 June 2016

VETERAN SINGERS who are forever new. That's not a contradiction in terms. Maggie K de Monde has been singing with her band Scarlet Fantastic – ...

Prince: The Sexual Politics of Prince

Essay by Larry Jaffee, Women Across Frontiers, 15 June 2016

PRINCE'S UNEXPECTED passing on April 21, 2016, shook popular culture and resulted in the long-overdue recognition of his unique musical genius. Yet Prince enigmatically contradicted ...

Sean Lennon: The MOJO Interview: Sean Lennon

Interview by Alan Light, MOJO, July 2016

"IT'S STILL NEW YORK!" says Sean Lennon with a laugh as a voice suddenly starts hollering in Spanish on the sidewalk directly in front of ...

Eden Ahbez: Legend of The Lost

Retrospective by Kirk Silsbee, LA Weekly, 8 July 2016

SOME PEOPLE only have one hit record in them.  History's one-hit wonders make up a long, sometimes colorful and often tragic legion.  Eden Ahbez got ...

David Bowie, Lemmy, Prince: For Rock's Fallen Superstars, A Promise of Life After Death

Comment by Roy Trakin, Cuepoint, 12 July 2016

As fans of Prince, Bowie, Lemmy (and many more) confront music mortality, industry innovators revitalize the legacies of deceased artists. ...

David Bowie: Paul Morley: The Age of Bowie – How David Bowie Made a World of Difference

Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 17 July 2016

"EVERYONE HAS THEIR own Bowie," Paul Morley writes in this discursive, free-associating ride across the life and work of the Starman Who Changed the World. ...

Skyhooks: The Glory Days Of RAM Magazine: A Q&A with Anthony O'Grady

Retrospective and Interview by Dave Laing (Australia), I Like Your Old Stuff, 20 July 2016

ONE OF THE most influential figures on the Australian rock scene of the late '70s and early '80s – and the man who wrote liner notes ...

Vivien Goldman: Do Everything Yourself: The Lessons Of Punk Renaissance Woman Vivien Goldman

Profile and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Record, The (NPR), 21 July 2016

ON JUNE 29, 64 years after the day she was born in London to Jewish parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Vivien Goldman was back ...

Brian Eno: "When he sang, David Bowie became a different person"

Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 23 July 2016

BRIAN ENO is Britain's favourite cultural polymath. He contributed a chime for a clock that will ring once every 10,000 years. He wrote a soundtrack ...

Black Widow, Blue Öyster Cult, Graham Bond, Jimmy Page, John Zorn, Bobby Beausoleil & The Freedom Orchestra , Aluk Todolo, Skullflower, Rudimentary Peni, Coven: The Primer: Occult rock

Guide by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 2016

Channelling the magick of Aleister Crowley and the neo-paganism of witchcraft, occult rock is the sound of rock 'n' roll's secret society. Edwin Pouncey reads ...

Morrissey in Manchester

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 21 August 2016

THESE ARE CURIOUS TIMES for Morrissey watchers. Last year's List Of The Lost was an excruciating attempt at a first novel, while his recent declaration ...

Frank Ocean: Blonde

Review by Kate Mossman, The Observer, 28 August 2016

The R&B singer's new album has slow-burn power and poetry enough to raise it beyond its gimmicky release strategy. ...