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Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981

D'RONE D'RONE ...

Generation X: Valley Of The Dolls (Chrysalis CHR 1193)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 3 February 1979

Style into junk ...

Altered Images: Bite (Epic — import LP)

Review by Iman Lababedi, The East Village Eye, August 1983

NEITHER THE prosaic nor the lexicon of love, love is still the emotion Clare Grogan is taking a bite out of. A smooth profuse camouflage ...

Boy George: Sold (Virgin)

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 13 August 1987

AFTER INITIATING one of the most successful publicity juggernauts of the decade, Boy George had a hard time adjusting to the consequences of fame. The ...

Martine McCutcheon: You Me & Us (Virgin)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 September 1999

THE TIFF GET GOING ...

Bill Nelson, Reeves Gabrels: Reeves Gabrels and Bill Nelson: Fantastic Guitars

Review by David Quantick, loudersound.com, 22 July 2014

Cult axemen combine to explosive effect ...

Patrick Wolf: Lycanthropy

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 2 March 2004

Ly·can·thro·py n. 1. In folklore, the magical ability to assume the form and characteristics of a wolf. 2. A kind of erratic melancholy, in which one ...

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Shelter, import)

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 1 January 1977

DONT KNOW much about these guys except that they breeze out of Los Angeles, have a great image and play very good '70's rock'n'roll which ...

Alejandro Escovedo: Big Station

Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 6 June 2012

WITH A BRAZEN SWAGGER drawn from Alejandro Escovedo's punk roots, the 61-year-old songwriter/yowler declares, "I can take a punch, I can take a swing…" on ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Texas Flood (Epic AL 38734)

Review by Mitchell Cohen, High Fidelity, August 1983

STEVIE RAY Vaughan's guitar playing is designed to elicit gasps: Every cluster of notes is an invitation to amazement. This multiple-climax approach could easily prove ...

Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band: Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band (MCA — Import from Virgin)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 25 February 1978

BOSTON (OR should I say Bosstown?) Massachusetts is also undergoing a Modern World Revival. Former inmates like Aerosmith, J. Geils and even the Modern Lovers ...

U2: Zooropa

Review by Max Bell, Vox, August 1993

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE in exchange for your soul? U2 bartered their time for a new album, made quickly. What started out as an impromptu ...

New Young Pony Club: Fantastic Playroom

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 19 July 2007

DESPITE ALL the massed proclamations of New Young Pony Club's verve, charisma, and cool, on record they sound bored, listless, and uninterested. It's a studied ...

Go-Kart Mozart: On the Hot Dog Streets

Review by Martin Aston, bbc.co.uk, 25 June 2012

There is only one Lawrence, this is his gospel, and roll on the next chapter. ...

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (Capitol)

Review by Craig Zeller, Creem, January 1987

A RECENT read through I, Tina, Ms. Turner's painfully honest life story, confirmed two things for me: 1) You won't find any used "I Like ...

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. ...

Mick Ronson: Slaughter on 10th Avenue (RCA)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974

Ronson: drama and romance ...

Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Liverpool

Review by Paul Lester, bbc.co.uk, 20 June 2011

The second album from Liverpool's second most famous sons. ...

Pulp: This Is Hardcore (Island CID 8066)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 27 March 1998

OF ALL the Britpop stars, it was always going to be Jarvis Cocker who would grapple most readily with encroaching maturity. Having dealt unflinchingly on ...

Puff Daddy: Forever (Bad Boy)

Review by Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, 1 September 1999

The first thing I asked him to do was get me a tape from the studio. He came back with it in five minutes. The ...