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Nik Cohn: Rock Dreamer

Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, January 2006

He inspired Townshend and Bowie to create Tommy and Ziggy Stardust, wrote the article that became Saturday Night Fever and penned the greatest pop book ...

David Bowie, Rolling Stones, The, Run DMC, Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Pete Rock and CL Smooth

Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993

MANAGER ADOFO Muhammad is talking up his brother and CL Smooth's success. "The unique sound is all incorporated in Pete Rock's flow — his art. ...

Goldie: Saturnz Return (Ffrr Records)

Review by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, February 1998

AFTER YEARS of failing to cultivate any homegrown hip hop talents comparable to the likes of Rakim or the Notorious B.I.G., the infamous noise scientists ...

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 ...

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. ...

Don Cornelius: Love, Peace, and Hair Grease: Remembering Soul Train's Don Cornelius

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Complex, 2 February 2012

Artists from Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys to Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band reminisce about the life and legacy of the late Don Cornelius, whose show ...

Lil Peep: Interview: Lil Peep

Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 6 August 2017

He doesn't have a record label, but he's huge on Instagram and gets mobbed "like Justin Bieber" in Russia. Lil Peep tells Lisa Verrico why ...

Thundercat: Gorilla, Manchester

Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 26 March 2017

The gifted bassist and Kendrick Lamar sidekick twists fusion, soul and hip-hop into magical shapes. ...

Beastie Boys, The, Fishbone, Run DMC: The Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C., Fishbone: Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 February 1987

BEASTIE BOYS BAPTISM ...

Loyle Carner: I believe in yesterday

Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 26 February 2017

Losing his stepdad made him the rapper he is today ...

Loyle Carner: I believe in yesterday

Profile and Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 26 February 2017

Losing his stepdad made him the rapper he is today. ...

Martina Topley-Bird, Tricky: Tricky

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 18 April 2012

Seventeen years ago, Maxinquaye made Tricky an unlikely pop star, and made him angry and unhappy. Now, though, he and Martina Topley-Bird are ready to ...

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 ...

Craig David: A Star Called David

Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, The Jewish Chronicle, 31 January 2008

He is a black soul singer with a reputation as a ladies' man. So how come Craig David seems like such a nice Jewish boy? ...

Eminem: The Most Hotly Anticipated Movie Of The Year!

Report by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 18 January 2003

…but is it any good? NME gives you the ultimate lowdown on Eminem's forthcoming blockbuster 8 Mile ...

Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, John "Jellybean" Benitez, Herbie Hancock, Whodini, Grand Mixer D.ST: Electro Therapy

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 14 April 1984

CHRIS ROBERTS raps to Morgan Khan about the Streetwave sensation. ...

Heavy D. & the Boyz: Heavy D: There's Something About Heavy

Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, July 1999

WHEN HEAVY D was just a kid, when he was Dwight Myers, the youngest of six children in a Jamaican immigrant family, he used to ...

MC Hammer: Here Comes The Hammer!!!

Report by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 6 March 1991

It's the all-rappin' all-dancing "revue" sensation that is MC HAMMER's American live show! It's coming to this country on May 2! And SIAN PATTENDEN has ...

Beastie Boys, The: The Beastie Boys: We Clamorous Beasties

Interview by Ted Kessler, NME, 21 May 1994

The Beastie Boys, icons to the sunstruck, tattooed youth of California have set up every American boy's dream empire — clothes, fanzine, record label and ...

Elvis Costello, Roots, The: Elvis Costello and Questlove

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, MOJO, September 2013

Forged in the unlikely surroundings of an American late-night TV show, the transatlantic union between Elvis Costello and The Roots' drummer and co-frontman Questlove has ...