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Martin Aston (and others) discuss Tinkerbox and Sid Vicious with Siouxsie & the Banshees (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1986)
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Features and interviews
Alan Smith reports on backstage larks with the Everly Brothers and the Rolling Stones (New Musical Express, 1965)
Peter Jones telephones A&M in L.A. to speak with co-founder Herb Alpert (Beat Instrumental, 1966)
Chris Welch is pretty affirmative about proto-prog-rockers Yes (Melody Maker, 1969)
Roy Carr shares a bottle of "Chateau Plonk" with soul star Tami Lynn (New Musical Express, 1971)
Jim Esposito discusses myths and rumours with Deep Purple's Jon Lord (Rock, 1973)
Vernon Gibbs meets 3+3's plus-three: Isley brothers Marvin, Chris and Ernie (Essence, 1975)
For her fellow New Yorkers, Mary Harron reports on the UK's punk scene (Village Voice, The, 1977)
Ronnie Gurr survives a rather tetchy phone conversation with Blondie's Chris Stein (Record Mirror, 1979)
Sandy Robertson meets rock scribe turned Subterraneans frontman Nick Kent (Sounds, 1981)
Bill Bentley profiles guitar whiz Stevie Ray Vaughan (LA Weekly, 1983)
Richard Grabel talks second-line rhythms with the Neville Brothers (New Musical Express, 1985)
Laura Fissinger grabs a chat with World Party's Karl Wallinger (New York Daily News, 1987)
Everett True befriends UK house-music icon Peter "Baby" Ford (Melody Maker, 1989)
Deanne Stillman reports on the subculture of Heavy Metal (New York Times, The, 1991)
David Toop on the rise of hip hop star Snoop Doggy Dogg (Times, The, 1993)
Bill Bentley remembers Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison (Musician, 1995)
Eric Weisbard on the success of MTV's "grown-up" spinoff VH1 (Spin, 1997)
Dave Simpson endures an edgy conversation with ex-Fine Young Cannibal Roland Gift (Guardian, The, 1999)
Rob Young ventures to Iceland to meet Sigur Rós and other "hardy children of nature" (Wire, The, 2001)
David Sinclair hears about the solo career of sometime Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie (Times, The, 2003)
Jason Gross talks to Flamin' Groovies co-founder Roy Loney (Perfect Sound Forever, 2005)
Mike Diver meets Scots rockers Idlewild (Drowned in Sound, 2007)
Alex Ogg grapples with the issues and pitfalls of music reference in the digital age (Rock's Backpages, 2009)
Sheryl Garratt hears about life after Liam from High Flying Bird Noel Gallagher (Daily Telegraph, 2011)
Paul Lester talks to rising star FKA Twigs (Guardian, The, 2013)
Paul Lester puts some awkward questions to the Kooks' Luke Pritchard (Guardian, The, 2014)
Barbara Ellen heads up to Liverpool for the KLF's three-day event "Welcome To The Dark Ages" (Observer, The, 2017)
Tony Burke says goodbye to American legends Donnie Fritts, Jimmy Johnson and Larry "The Mole" Taylor (Record Collector, 2019)
Ian Winwood discusses 'Cop Killer' and Body Count with hip hop godfather Ice-T (Daily Telegraph, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Beat Instrumental is deeply impressed by The Fabulous Impressions (Beat Instrumental, 1967)
Philip Elwood hoists the Electric Flag, live at the Fillmore West (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1968)
Chris Welch listens to the Zep-backed Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends (Melody Maker, 1970)
Lillian Roxon reaches for the insulin as she listens to John Denver, live at New York's Carnegie Hall (New York Daily News, 1972)
Trite and humourless: Colman Andrews actively dislikes Buffy Sainte-Marie's Buffy (Phonograph Record, 1974)
Hugh Fielder is disappointed by Steeleye Span, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Sounds, 1976)
Don Snowden gets a hit from Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous (Los Angeles Times, 1978)
Mark Cooper is unconvinced by the Only Ones, live at San Francisco's Old Waldorf (Record Mirror, 1980)
Nick Kent moves to the sound of the Rolling Stones' Still Life (New Musical Express, 1982)
Max Bell reviews reggae's own Cool Ruler Gregory Isaacs, live at London's Lyceum (Times, The, 1984)
Stuart Bailie receives a dose of The The's Infected (Record Mirror, 1986)
Daniel Weizmann reviews enduring L.A. punk-rockers Redd Kross, live at West Hollywood's Roxy (LA Weekly, 1988)
Steven Wells hums along to Napalm Death's Harmony Corruption (New Musical Express, 1990)
Jim Sullivan loves Lyle Lovett, live at Boston's Orpheum Theater (Boston Globe, The, 1992)
Simon Price prises open Alice In Chains' Jar Of Flies (Melody Maker, 1994)
Dave Simpson sees Sleeper, live at Leeds' Town & Country club (Guardian, The, 1996)
Keith Cameron takes the lift to Massive Attack's Mezzanine (New Musical Express, 1998)
Adam Sweeting can't let go of U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind (Guardian, The, 2000)
Caroline Sullivan checks into Toploader's Magic Hotel (Guardian, The, 2002)
Phil Sutcliffe is deeply unconvinced by Alanis Morissette's So-Called Chaos (MOJO, 2004)
Angus Batey gorges on Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor (Daily Telegraph, 2006)
David Buckley "feels the burn" of R.E.M.'s reinvigorating Accelerate (MOJO, 2008)
Pete Paphides almost admires the "defiant ineptitude" of high-haired Irish duo Jedward's Planet Jedward (Times, The, 2010)
Luke Turner listens to Leila's "compelling, smart and unusual" U&I (bbc.co.uk, 2012)
Peter Stone Brown revisits 1965's Newport Folk festival in his review of Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric! (CounterPunch, 2015)
Jamie Atkins reviews a new issue of teen screamathon The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Record Collector, 2016)
Rick Pearson reviews big-hearted balladeer George Ezra, live at Wembley's SSE Arena (Evening Standard, The, 2018)
