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David Kamp digs deep into the mighty 'Born To Run' with Bruce Springsteen (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2016)
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Features and interviews
Ronnie Oberman hears about 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag' from James Brown (Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 1965)
Keith Altham inflicts British cuisine on Beach Boy Bruce Johnston (New Musical Express, 1967)
Val Mabbs takes tea with Jimi Hendrix (Record Mirror, 1969)
Michael Watts meets Nico in South Kensington (Melody Maker, 1971)
Mike Oberman meets Gram Parsons (Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 1973)
Barbara Charone hangs out with the bibulous Stephen Stills (Crawdaddy!, 1975)
Kris Nicholson hears the Utopian visions of Todd Rundgren (Creem, 1977)
Jim Farber discusses disco with Chic's Nile Rodgers (Rolling Stone, 1979)
Richard Harrington is introduced to the pioneering ideas of "jazz avatar" Don Cherry (The Washington Post, 1981)
Paolo Hewitt enjoys the company of young guns Wham! (New Musical Express, 1983)
Howard Johnson hangs out with thrash-metal merchants Anthrax (Kerrang!, 1985)
Sylvia Patterson learns about the debut album by Curiosity Killed The Cat (Smash Hits, 1987)
Gene Santoro meets rock's Renaissance man Brian Eno in New York (Pulse!, 1989)
Jack Barron eats out with S'Express (Record Mirror, 1991)
Mark Rowland in conversation with Counting Crows' Adam Duritz (Musician, 1993)
Caitlin Moran meets Ruby's Lesley Rankine (The Times, 1995)
Michael A. Gonzales spends quality time with "Mack Divas" Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown (The Source, 1997)
Erik Himmelsbach reports on a solo venture by ex-Mötley Crüe man Tommy Lee (Rolling Stone, 1999)
David Hepworth has a splendidly discursive conversation with Elvis Costello (The Word, 2003)
Alan LIght revisits London's swinging "summer of love" (Rolling Stone, 2007)
Scott McLennan hears about HAARP from Muse drummer Dominic Howard (Rip It Up (Australia), 2008)
Dave Laing looks back on mid-'70s British rock mag Let It Rock (Popular Music and Society, 2010)
Stevie Chick looks back with South Korea's persecuted psych godfather Shin Joong-hyun (The Guardian, 2011)
Julian Marszalek meets Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward (The Quietus, 2015)
Carol Cooper hears about Nona Hendryx's album of Captain Beefheart covers (The Village Voice, 2017)
Mitchell Cohen remembers the '60s pop power of the Dave Clark Five (Music Aficionado, 2019)
Michael A. Gonzales ponders the influence of hip-hop-affiliated comic Paul Mooney (soulhead, 2021)
Jim Farber meets currently-infamous Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner (The Guardian, 2022)
Chris Campion reports on an exhibition of "gothic futurist" art by 'Beat Bop' rapper Rammellzee (Los Angeles Times, 2022)
Album & Live Reviews
Philip Elwood catches Bill Graham's first Winterland show featuring Paul Butterfield, Muddy Waters and the pre-Grace Slick Jefferson Airplane (The San Francisco Examiner, 1966)
Lillian Roxon hears the stripped-down Nashville sound of Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding (Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1968)
One of those nights: Richard Williams is unenthralled by Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and others at London's Purcell Room (Melody Maker, 1970)
Tony Stewart can see the wood for Fleetwood Mac's Bare Trees (New Musical Express, 1972)
David Nathan is disappointed by War, Junior Walker and Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes, live in London (Blues & Soul, 1974)
Radio Pete rates Robert Palmer's Some People Can Do What They Like (Rocky Mountain Musical Express, 1976)
John Swenson is wowed by Muddy Waters, live at NYC's Bottom Line (Rolling Stone, 1978)
James Hunter accepts Carly Simon's invitation to Come Upstairs (The Village Voice, 1980)
Dave McCullough sees 23 Skidoo, live at London's King's College (Sounds, 1982)
Steve Bloom hears Jennifer Holliday's Feel My Soul (Record, 1984)
Richard Cromelin sees Brit synth-popsters Blancmange, live at West Hollywood's Roxy (Los Angeles Times, 1986)
Abby Weissman sees the Ramones, live at New York's Ritz (East Coast Rocker, 1986)
Jeff Lorez hears (and appreciates) Shirley Murdock's Woman's Point Of View (Blues & Soul, 1988)
David Sinclair sees Madonna, live at London's Wembley Stadium (The Times, 1990)
Simon Reynolds listens to Lush's Spooky (Rolling Stone, 1992)
Max Bell enjoys the "bare cheek" of Take That, live at London's Wembley Arena (The Evening Standard, 1994)
Righteous: Amy Linden listens to new albums by De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest (Fi, 1996)
Neil Kulkarni is astonished by Kristin Hersh, live at London's 12 Bar Club (Melody Maker, 1998)
Toby Manning sees Leftfield, live in Zurich (Select, 2000)
Amy Linden considers the Perfect Imperfections of Cee-Lo Green (XXL, 2002)
Rob Hughes reviews ex-geologist Laura Veirs' Carbon Glacier (Uncut, 2004)
Will Hermes listens to the comeback album that is Nelly Furtado's Loose (Entertainment Weekly, 2006)
Bill Holdship hails the 30th anniversary of Nick Lowe's Jesus of Cool (San Antonio Current, 2008)
Andrew Mueller applauds the "spirited challenge" that is Brad Paisley's American Saturday Night (bbc.co.uk, 2009)
Andy Gill embraces Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas (Uncut, 2012)
Richard Williams searches for a theme to Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes (Uncut, 2014)
Caroline Sullivan sees "KIng and Queen of Hearts" Maxwell and Mary J. Blige, live at London's O2 Arena (The Guardian, 2016)
Jude Rogers reviews an orchestral show in Cardiff by former Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys (The Guardian, 2018)
Kieron Tyler looks back at the legacy of Joe Meek-produced hitmakers the Honeycombs (The Arts Desk, 2020)
Jacob Paul Nielsen sees Radiohead side project the Smile, live in Detroit (Magnet, 2022)
