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David Toop talks about nature, technology and the new Vespertine with Björk (Rock's Backpages audio, 2001)
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Features and interviews
Maureen Cleave talks folk with "citybilly" Carolyn Hester (The Evening Standard, 1962)
Pete Johnson checks in with Harry Belafonte (Los Angeles Times, 1967)
Ray Connolly converses with blues icon B.B. King (The Evening Standard, 1969)
Phil Symes grabs a chat with anti-war soul man Edwin Starr (Disc and Music Echo, 1971)
Man of the people: Chris Charlesworth chats with Slade's Noddy Holder (Melody Maker, 1973)
Loud, hard and relentless: James Wolcott profiles "pagan-cult rockers" the Ramones (The Village Voice, 1975)
Jim Farber discusses drums with ELP's Carl Palmer (Circus, 1977)
Alone and together: David Nathan hears about the "hook-up" between Roy Ayers and Wayne Henderson (Blues & Soul, 1979)
Patrick Humphries interviews the ever-eccentric Vivian Stanshall (Melody Maker, 1981)
Dave McCullough meets Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon (Sounds, 1983)
John Abbey meets rising soul star Whitney Houston (Blues & Soul, 1985)
Ted Mico meets Sisters of Mercy's Andrew Eldritch (Melody Maker, 1987)
Sylvia Patterson has dinner with Simply Red's Mick Hucknall (Smash Hits, 1989)
Damon Wise shares a drink with Gallon Drunk (Sounds, 1991)
Hip hop bebop: Ann Powers hangs out with Digable Planets (Spin, 1993)
Craig McLean attempts to pin down Portishead in Detroit and Toronto (Vox, 1995)
Twisted fire starters: Ben Thompson looks back at 1996 with the Prodigy's Liam Howlett (Blah Blah Blah, 1997)
Max Bell reports on a stand-off between Beck and Geffen Records (The Evening Standard, 1999)
Stevie Chick checks in with elusive hip hop collective the Spooks (The Evening Standard, 2001)
Tom Cox recalls the glory days of the pop fanzine (Observer Music Monthly, 2003)
Amy Linden hears about current projects from trailblazing rappers Run and D.M.C. (New York Daily News, 2005)
Everett True explains why he loves Jonathan Richman (Plan B, 2007)
Scott McLennan talks to Canadian pop twins Tegan & Sara (Rip It Up (Australia), 2009)
Robin Eggar discusses blues and addiction with guitarist Stephen Dale Petit (The Sunday Times, 2010)
Michael A. Gonzales revisits the eponymous debut album by Prince protégée Jill Jones (soulhead, 2015)
Martin Aston talks us through ten albums by Scott Walker (The Vinyl Factory, 2017)
Simon Reynolds looks back at the "glucose overdose" that was Scritti Politti's Cupid and Psyche '85 (TIDAL, 2021)
Toby Creswell talks to unsung postpunk singer Kate Ceberano (The Guardian, 2023)
Harold Bronson remembers licensing Boston garage punks the Barbarians to Rhino Records (Rock's Backpages, 2024)
Album & Live Reviews
Karl Dallas listens to the (English) Spinners' Family of Man (Melody Maker, 1966)
Pete Johnson sees Cream, live at the Santa Monica Civic (Los Angeles Times, 1968)
Ray Connolly loves Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry (The Evening Standard, 1970)
James Johnson is treated to an early glimpse of Dutch progsters Focus, live at London's Marquee (New Musical Express, 1972)
Alan Niester itemises the flaws on the Doobie Brothers' What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits (Rolling Stone, 1974)
David Nathan sees the Isley Brothers, live at Madison Square Garden (Blues & Soul, 1976)
Paul Nelson passes judgement on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Rolling Stone, 1978)
Ian Ravendale gets nutty with Madness, live at Sunderland's Mayfair Ballroom (Sounds, 1980)
Iman Lababedi praises the dB's' Repercussion (Creem, 1982)
Leyla Sanai sees Simple Minds, live at London's Lyceum (New Musical Express, 1984)
Brian Case tries on Miles Davis' Tutu (Melody Maker, 1986)
Damon Wise witnesses teen sensation Debbie Gibson, live at London's Astoria (Sounds, 1988)
"The Andrew Dice Clay of rap": Alan Light doesn't want Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (Rolling Stone, 1990)
Caitlin Moran sees the Beautiful South, live in the Midlands (Melody Maker, 1992)
Single of the Week: John Harris raves about Suede's 'Stay Together' (New Musical Express, 1994)
Sara Scribner sees Cypress Hill, live at West Hollywood's House of Blues (L.A. Weekly, 1996)
Angus Batey wakes up to Faithless' Sunday 8pm (New Musical Express, 1998)
Steven Wells reviews Van Morrison's Skiffle Sessions (New Musical Express, 2000)
Evelyn McDonnell awakens to Yoko Ono's Blueprint for a Sunrise (Spin, 2002)
John Aizlewood assesses the Who's reissued "rock opera" Tommy (Q, 2004)
Craig McLean listens to Bright Eyes' Motion Sickness (The Word, 2006)
Jon Savage immerses himself in "the late Cali masterwork" that is Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue (MOJO, 2008)
Ned Raggett reviews Echo & the Bunnymen's Meteorites (The Quietus, 2014)
John Lewis listens to Allen Toussaint's posthumous American Tunes (Uncut, 2016)
Richard Gehr reacts to the mix tape that is Khruangbin's Late Night Tales (Bandcamp Daily, 2020)
Dave Bennun at the wheel of Christine & the Queens' Redcar (Metro, 2022)
Stewart Smith considers the images in Val Wilmer's Deep Blues 1960–1988 (The Wire, 2024)
Ian Gittins grooves to the dub sounds of Dennis Bovell, live at London's Jazz Café (Financial Times, 2024)
