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Overview by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 4 June 1981

  Rock & roll, being the proud music of America's young, has always had a happy association with the beginning of summer: no school, warm nights ...

Visage: …And Their British Guru, Steve Strange

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 27 July 1981

SOMETIMES, confides Steve Strange, weeks go by when he doesn't buy any clothes. ...

Long Ryders, The: The Long Ryders Shoot 'Em Up

Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 23 September 1983

LOS ANGELES – Fringe jackets, mini-skirts, turtlenecks, striped trousers, long hair, 12-string guitars, LSD, acoustic instruments, garage rehearsals – lots of things are coming back ...

Patti Smith, Television: Punk in New York: Blitzkreig Bop

Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 15 February 1986

"And one fine morning she turns on a New York-station / And doesn't believe what she hears at all / She started dancing to that ...

Led Zeppelin: Rodney B.'s Endless Party

Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986

The parties were legendary, the hotels trashed regularly, the hangers-on flowed constantly when the Zep cruised the skyways. ...

Blur, David Bowie, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Clash, The, Gallon Drunk, Jam, The, Kinks, The, Madness, Pet Shop Boys, Pogues, The, Rolling Stones, The, Sex Pistols, The, Small Faces, The, Suede, The The, Who, The: London: Ditty Old Town

Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993

From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: A Trip Down the Sunset Strip

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1994

SUNSET BOULEVARD: the very name is synonymous with dreams, unrealities, tableaux of palm trees and convertibles in the golden light of southern California. Billy ...

Nico, Velvet Underground, The: Name Game: Billy Name

Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 25 April 1997

At Andy Warhol's Factory everybody wanted to be a star. Everyone except Billy Name. He designed the Factory, curated it, soothed the egos of Warhol's ...

Motels, The: The Motels' Martha Davis (2001)

Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1 February 2001

On the release of the Anthologyland compilation, Martha talks about how she maintains a musical career, then looks back: her influences, from folk through soul and the Beatles to Bowie; the first Motels moving from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and creating their own scene; her mother's death, and raising two kids; reforming the Motels with Jeff Jourard, and getting signed; her love of the process: playing, rehearsing, videos etc.; putting together the anthology, and the future of the Motels.

File format: mp3; file size: 39.8mb, interview length: 41' 29" sound quality: ** (phoner)

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George (2002) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Bill Brewster, Rock's Backpages transcripts, January 2002

This is a transcript of Bill's audio interview with Boy George. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Shine On, The Lights Of The Bowery: The Blank Generation Revisited

Retrospective and Interview by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 12 July 2002

ONE MORE MAN gone. A year after the passing of his brother in arms Joey, Dee Dee Ramone died from a narcotics overdose. ...

Notes Towards a Definition Of “Indie”

Essay by Tim Footman, Careless Talk Costs Lives, January 2003

From: Jerry Thackray. To: Contributors. Sent: 15 April 2002 08:21. Subject: From MOJO. "Opening with an editorial diatribe about the state of the music press, ...

Rodney Bingenheimer: L.A.'s own Mayor Zelig

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 March 2004

A new film follows Rodney Bingenheimer's journey from a torn childhood to hanging with the hip bands of the music scene. ...

Mod: The Essential Albums

Guide by Paul Gorman, MOJO, May 2004

MOD'S FASTIDIOUS nature dictates that the path between purism and pedantry is oft-trod. Were the Birds arty r&b enthusiasts, more allied to the scruffy Stones ...

The Meaning of Rave

Retrospective by Bill Brewster, Springsix Festival brochure, May 2006

Well, someone had to explain what Quavers were to those funny foreigners. ...

New York Dolls: Make-up America!

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, June 2006

In 1971 Manhattan, five teenage toughs in make-up, tried to kick-start the punk revolution. By 1976 the New York Dolls seemed finished, poleaxed by drugs, ...

Saints, The, Radio Birdman, Scientists, The, Boys Next Door, The: Come the Revolution: Oz punk

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 20 July 2007

You thought punks in the UK had things to be angry about? Over in Australia, bands had a real fight on their hands, says Keith ...

Stooges, The: "Come on, Ronnie, tell em' how I feel!"

Special Feature by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 14 January 2009

IT WASN'T always this way. Years ago, TV commercials and film soundtracks didn't feature the guitar sound Ron Asheton pioneered with the Stooges. Even in ...

From Mod to Emo: Why Pop Tribes Are Still Making a Scene

Overview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 February 2010

Like-minded music fans have been herding together for half a century — but are die-hard pop tribes now a thing of the past? Do today's ...

Runaways, The: The Runaways: Neon Angels

Retrospective by Don Waller, Detroit Metro Times, 7 April 2010

ON AUGUST 12th, 1975, the Runaways played their first gig — at Back Door Man fanzine founder Phast Phreddie Patterson's parents' house in north Torrance, ...