Kieron Tyler
Kieron Tyler has contributed to Britain's MOJO magazine since 1999 and is the author of Smashing It Up: A Decade Of Chaos With The Damned, the critically-acclaimed and definitive biography of the first decade of the pioneering British punk rock band. His writing has also appeared in Billboard (America), The Guardian, i (the newspaper), The Independent, Les Inrockuptibles (France), Music Week, Q, Rumba (Finland) and Ugly Things (America). He lives in North London.
29 articles
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The 101'ers, The Clash, Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer: The Man Who Would Be King
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, 2005
The 101'ers were about to hit the big time. But then Joe Strummer found punk. ...
Aphrodite's Child: The Fabulous Furry Greek Brothers
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, Mojo Collections, Fall 2001
The apocalyptic rock of Aphrodite's Child spawned Demis Roussos and Vangelis. ...
Review by Kieron Tyler, Record Collector, March 2000
IN AUTUMN 1999, Rhino launched Rhino Handmade, a new label dedicated to issuing CDs via the internet (www. rhinohandmade,com). All Rhino Handmade CDs are limited, ...
Review by Kieron Tyler, Arts Desk, The, 27 February 2013
The return of the Thin White Duke after a ten year silence does not disappoint ...
Review by Kieron Tyler, Arts Desk, The, 3 November 2019
Deep-digging revisitation of one of the pre-punk 70s' best albums ...
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, March 2005
FROM '50S TEEN idol to '60s folk singer, Bobby Darin never stopped packing a handful of startling singing careers into 15 short, debauched years. Not ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, January 2003
They invented symphonic rock, wrote the world's dumbest riff and excelled in lunacy, greed and very long solos. Kieron Tyler charts the stop-start metal excess ...
Jackie DeShannon: Jackie de Shannon: Majestic DeShannon
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, June 2006
Jackie Deshannon — Folk Rock Pioneer, Chart Artist and Songwriter of Renown ...
The Doors: The Soft Parade/Dance on Fire
Film/DVD/TV Review by Kieron Tyler, Arts Desk, The, 4 June 2017
Jim Morrison and Co.'s confusing visual legacy suffers from lack of upgrades ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, Ugly Things, 2002
ALTHOUGH EATER were at the centre of the great British punk rock storm of 1976, they've never been treated with the cap-doffing respect granted to ...
Esquivel, Arthur Lyman, Ken Nordine: Adventures in Stereo
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, January 2001
Whatever happened to the days of the Teldec stereophonic systems and orthophonic sound? Kieron Tyler winds up the victrola and trips hack into a world ...
First Aid Kit: MOJO Working: First Aid Kit
Report and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, November 2017
Sweden's Soderberg sisters return, with electric guitar, more keyboards, members of Midlake and Wilco, and Peter Buck. ...
Kim Fowley, Tomorrow, Keith West: A Teenage Opera: Testing… Testing…
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2004
Brainchild of German Phil Spector wannabe Mark Wirtz and UK psych hopefuls Tomorrow, A Teenage Opera promised to be the grandest psychedelic production of the ...
John Foxx, Ultravox: Q&A: John Foxx
Interview by Kieron Tyler, Arts Desk, The, 2 September 2016
The leader of the original Ultravox on challenging the punk era's orthodoxies and the band as an art project ...
Ezra Furman: MOJO Rising: Ezra Furman
Profile and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, October 2015
The "gender-wobbly", weirdo Springsteen talks doo wop, fearlessness and Judaism. ...
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Born Again Gainsbourg
Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, October 2006
Serge's girl Charlotte returns with her first album since 1986. ...
Howe Gelb, Giant Sand: Sands of time — Way Too Much Light: Howe Gelb And Friends
Live Review by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, December 2015
Thirty years of Giant Sand celebrated with guests aplenty at Danish arts festival. ...
John Grant and the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra: Harpa Eldborg, Reykjavik
Live Review by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2016
JOHN GRANT does not take the easy route. After the release of his third solo album, he could have relaxed and soaked up the warm ...
Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, March 2014
Heavy sorrow and the revealing light of Los Angeles combine on the third album from emotional Swede. ...
Lykke Li: Village Underground, London
Live Review by Kieron Tyler, Arts Desk, The, 9 May 2014
A bold night of new songs from Sweden's sorrowful singer-songwriter ...
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, July 2004
Unearthed! The French punk bands that gave The Damned a run for their money. Kieron Tyler offers a belated "Salut!" ...
Michel Polnareff: Buried Treasure: Michel Polnareff: "Polnareff's" (Disc AZ Stec LP 81 France only)
Review by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, August 2001
This month in our series of forgotten classics: a temperamental Frenchman sculpts "genius" soundscape ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO '60s, 2011
Their record company wanted the new Monkees, but guitarist Todd Rundgren had bigger plans for THE NAZZ, his ill-fated Philadelphia powerpop dandies. ...
One Direction: Crazy About One Direction, Channel 4
Film/DVD/TV Review by Kieron Tyler, Arts Desk, The, 16 August 2013
Lazy and shallow look at the fan phenomenon surrounding the world's biggest boy band ...
Jimmy Page, The Yardbirds: Jimmy Page: Educating Jimmy
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, May 2001
Before Jimmy Page became a rock god, he was a sonic apprentice par excellence. ...
Lou Reed: The Velvet Evolution
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, Mojo Collections, Fall 2001
Even the coolest stars had to learn their craft at some point and Lou Reed was no exception. Kieron Tyler picks the dark one's early ...
The Saints: It Came From Down Under
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, November 2004
The Saints were punk before punk, four Australian rebels with a paint-peeling sound and the ultimate screw-you attitude. Kieron Tyler charts their short, sharp startling ...
Del Shannon: Buried Treasure: Del Shannon's Home And Away
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2001
US pop singer hits London, meets Andrew Oldham, makes psych classic. ...
Vince Taylor: The Leper Messiah
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, November 2000
Black leather, bike chains, orange make-up, a Christ complex: Vince Taylor was the ultimate nut rocker. Kieron Tyler tells the tragic tale of a '60s ...
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