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Audio Interview
Martin Aston backstage with New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1986)
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Features and interviews
Robert Shelton profiles 'Freight Train' folk veteran Elizabeth Cotten (The New York Times, 1965)
Penny Valentine in conversation with Dusty Springfield (Disc and Music Echo, 1967)
Loraine Alterman hears of the post-Motown plans of songwriter/producer Eddie Holland (Rolling Stone, 1970)
Lillian Roxon tangles with rough tough teen fans of the Jackson 5 (New York Sunday News, 1972)
Rob Partridge charts the evolution of Atlantic Records (Melody Maker, 1974)
Days before the Bill Grundy TV showdown, Barry Cain interviews the Sex Pistols (Record Mirror, 1976)
Roy Carr discusses reggae and race with Steel Pulse's David Hinds (New Musical Express, 1978)
Thirty years on the road: John Swenson meets a reflective B.B. King (Rolling Stone, 1980)
Mike Stand considers the Go-Go's (Smash Hits, 1982)
Sam Sutherland meets the "brothers" Was (Not Was) (High Fidelity, 1984)
Howard Johnson meets an ebullient Jon Bon Jovi (Kerrang!, 1986)
Caroline Sullivan interviews gals-in-exile Voice of the Beehive (Melody Maker, 1988)
Bill Holdship salutes the late Del Shannon (LA Weekly, 1990)
Andrew Smith meets rising techno star the Aphex Twin (Melody Maker, 1992)
In the shadow of Kurt Cobain's death, John Harris meets a troubled Evan Dando (New Musical Express, 1994)
Caitlin Moran enjoys a chat with Stephen "Baby Bird" Jones (The Times, 1996)
A transcription of Johnny Black's audio interview with k.d. lang (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1997)
James Maycock looks back with Georgie Fame at Soho's legendary R&B watering-hole the Flamingo Club (The Independent, 1998)
Fred Schruers raps with the very busy Master P (Rolling Stone, 1998)
Mike Barnes finds formulas with Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown (The Independent, 2001)
Edwin Pouncey plays the invisible jukebox for John Sinclair (The Wire, 2003)
Alfred Soto returns to Bryan Ferry's Mamouna (Stylus, 2005)
John Lewis reports on a new stage adaptation of Colin MacInnes' Absolute Beginners (The Times, 2007)
Kandia Crazy Horse questions the Afrophilia of Vampire Weekend et al. (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2008)
Paul Lester introduces Dan Bejar's "unironic '80s fetishists" Destroyer (The Guardian, 2011)
Luke Turner hears about 13 albums that inspired Zola Jesus (The Quietus, 2013)
Laura Barton talks to genre-defying composer Mica Levi (The Gentlewoman, 2015)
Maura Johnston finds David Bowie "ill-served" by the "hectic megamix" that is fangirl Lady Gaga's Grammies tribute performance (The Guardian, 2016)
Chris Heath discusses grief, Gladiator 2 and the Lovely Creatures box set with Nick Cave (GQ, 2017)
Ian Winwood meets in-demand "bass queen" Tal Wilkenfeld (Daily Telegraph, 2019)
Richard Gehr revisits Frank Zappa's Hot Rats (Los Angeles Times, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Penny Valentine checks out the week's singles, including Lorraine Ellison's volcanic 'Stay With Me' (Disc and Music Echo, 1966)
A knock-out: Robert Shelton sees James Brown, live at Madison Square Garden (The New York Times, 1968)
Roy Carr praises Janis Joplin's posthumous Pearl (New Musical Express, 1971)
Philip Elwood expresses reservations about Bruce Springsteen, live at the Berkeley Community Theater (The San Francisco Examiner, 1973)
Sam Sutherland believes in Steely Dan's Katy Lied (Phonograph Record, 1975)
The pig was great! Ed Jones is pretty appalled by Pink Floyd, live at Wembley's Empire Pool (The Spectator, 1977)
Paul Sexton is blown away by Peabo Bryson's Crosswinds (Record Mirror, 1979)
Richard Cromelin catches Kraftwerk, live at the Santa Monica Civic (Los Angeles Times, 1981)
Mitchell Cohen develops a taste for New Edition's Candy Girl (High Fidelity, 1983)
Roy Carr is riveted by Salsa politico Rubén Blades, live at the Montreux Festival (New Musical Express, 1985)
Julian Henry observes a London show headlined by L.A.'s Rain Parade (Melody Maker, 1985)
Rob Tannenbaum would rather not Meet Danny Wilson (Rolling Stone, 1987)
David Sinclair survives the MOR slush for long enough to appreciate Gloria Estefan, live at Wembley Arena (The Times, 1989)
Chuck Eddy finds much to admire in Vanilla Ice's Extremely Live (LA Weekly, 1991)
John Harris is knocked out by the first ever UK show by the Velvet Underground (New Musical Express, 1993)
Amy Linden checks out US-expat and native-UK soul from, among others, Des'ree and Shara Nelson (The New York Times, 1995)
Dave Simpson sees a somewhat ragged Supergrass in Leeds (The Guardian, 1997)
Gavin Martin greatly enjoys Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club movie (New Musical Express, 1999)
Barbara Ellen succumbs to the shrieking din of Primal Scream's XTRMNTR (The Times, 2000)
Bill Holdship hails Ash's Free All Angels (Dallas Observer, 2002)
Jeff Tamarkin tackles an anthology of tracks by the Mamas & the Papas (MOJO, 2004)
Todd L. Burns reviews Alec Empire's Futiurist, plus a compilation by the man's former band Atari Teenage Riot (Stylus, 2006)
Stevie Chick dips into Steve Winwood's 4-CD retrospective Revolutions (bbc.co.uk, 2010)
Luke Turner loves Leila's U&I (bbc.co.uk, 2012)
Dave Simpson sees reggae icons Yellowman and Dillinger, live in Manchester (The Guardian, 2014)
Will Hermes traverses Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore's Ghost Forests (Rolling Stone, 2018)
Stephen Dalton sees a first post-lockdown show by Sam Fender, live in Newcastle (The Times, 2020)
