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Steven Daly discusses Catholicism, the Kabbalah and Swept Away with Madonna (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2002)
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Features and interviews
June Harris hears about the delights of pantomime from Freddie (& the Dreamers) (Disc, 1964)
No clone: Karl Dallas meets Woody's lad Arlo Guthrie (Melody Maker, 1966)
The Beat hears the thoughts of a visiting George Harrison (KRLA Beat, 1967)
Dawn James gently probes Amen Corner's 17-year-old singer Andy Fairweather Low (Rave, 1968)
Geoffrey Cannon reports on Island Records' new Notting Hill HQ (Guardian, The, 1969)
Lon Goddard discusses Motown and "the current pop scene" with the miraculous Smokey Robinson (Record Mirror, 1970)
Roy Carr interviews Robert Plant about Led Zeppelin IV (New Musical Express, 1972)
Jacoba Atlas meets Maria Muldaur (Melody Maker, 1974)
Joel Selvin reports on Bill Graham's staging of a concert for the Barbra Streisand remake of A Star Is Born (San Francisco Chronicle, 1976)
Brian Case looks back at the '60s British blues boom with tenor sax man Dick Heckstall-Smith (New Musical Express, 1978)
Girls vs. Boys: Dave McCullough talks domestic politics with Moseley's Au Pairs (Sounds, 1980)
Jim Sullivan on the blower to Blondie's Chris Stein (Boston Globe, The, 1982)
Max Jones meets Miles Davis' old producer Teo Macero (Wire, The, 1984)
Paul Elliott gets up the noses of metal degenerates Mötley Crüe (Sounds, 1986)
Adam Sweeting interviews Salt-N-Pepa in Oklahoma City (Guardian, The, 1988)
James Brown meets Happy Mondays' frontman Shaun Ryder (New Musical Express, 1990)
Rob Tannenbaum talks about U2, sex and other matters with Brian Eno (Details, 1992)
Kodwo Eshun's pocket guide to the upcoming trials of hip hop stars Tupac, Flavor Flav and Snoop Dogg (Wire, The, 1994)
Dave Simpson discusses boozing and shagging with daffy duo Shampoo (i-D, 1996)
Steven Daly hears about le Pop Français from Air (Rolling Stone, 1998)
Dave Laing & Phil Hardy on pop singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Ben Myers meets "genre-splicing, cop-car-driving, six-foot-eight" New Yorker Custom (Kerrang!, 2002)
Robert Sandall talks to Lhasa de Sela about Montreal's vibrant music scene (Sunday Times, 2004)
Sylvie Simmons talks about the Heartbreakers and new solo album Highway Companion with Tom Petty (MOJO, 2006)
Mick Houghton talks to the Turtles' Mark Volman (Uncut, 2008)
Joel McIver plays ten pertinent tracks for tabloid model celeb Katie "Jordan" Price (Quietus, The, 2010)
James Medd on the unsung musical hero that is The Bassist (Word, The, 2012)
Graham Reid discovers obscure San Franciscan soulman Darondo (elsewhere.co.nz, 2014)
Lisa Verrico interviews the year's breakout star Héloïse "Christine" Letissier (Sunday Times, 2016)
Henry Yates looks back on Phil Lynott with Thin Lizzy legend Scott Gorham (Classic Rock, 2019)
Album & Live Reviews
Peter Jones is unduly generous towards a cash-in solo album by the Monkees' Davy Jones (Record Mirror, 1967)
John Mendelsohn is predictably disrespectful about Humble Pie, live at L.A.'s Whisky a Go Go (Los Angeles Times, 1969)
Roy Carr effusively praises Free's Live (New Musical Express, 1971)
Martin Hayman gives the green light to Bobby Womack's Across 110th Street (Sounds, 1973)
Philip Norman joins a "large, obstinately fashionable crowd" in order to review Manhattan Transfer at Biba's Rainbow Room (Times, The, 1975)
Tim Lott and Rosalind Russell compare and contrast David Bowie's 'Heroes' to the Stranglers' 'No More Heroes' (Record Mirror, 1977)
White riot: Jim Sullivan sees the Clash, live at Boston's Orpheum Theater (Boston Globe, The, 1979)
Paul Sexton chirps along to Odyssey's I Got The Melody (Record Mirror, 1981)
Richard Grabel sees Sheffield's ABC, live at New York's Ritz (New Musical Express, 1983)
Always the bridesmaid: Caroline Sullivan checks out Marilyn's Despite Straight Lines (Melody Maker, 1985)
Don Waller witnesses Warren Zevon, live at L.A.'s Wiltern Theatre (Los Angeles Times, 1987)
Biba Kopf welcomes the reconstituted Can's Rite Time (Wire, The, 1989)
Roy Wilkinson sees a radically stripped-down Mark Eitzel, live at London's Borderline (Sounds, 1991)
Caroline Sullivan praises PJ Harvey's Rid Of Me (Guardian, The, 1993)
John Robb raves about the Chemical Brothers, live at Manchester's Haçienda (Melody Maker, 1995)
Chuck Eddy sifts through the rehashed punk of the Offspring's fourth platter Ixnay on the Hombre (Rolling Stone, 1997)
Barbara Ellen catches a shambolic show by the all-girl All Saints (Observer, The, 1999)
j. poet salutes a "comeback" album by soul elder Solomon Burke (Paste, 2003)
Frances Morgan sees neo-Appalachian duo Born Heller, live at London's 12 Bar Club (Plan B, 2005)
Dan Gennoe digs Groove Armada's Soundboy Rock (dotmusic.co.uk, 2007)
John Lewis attends the Ornette-Coleman-curated Meltdown Festival to see him guest with the Roots (Guardian, The, 2009)
Maura Johnston on "the age of trollgaze" [sic] and the release of Lana Del Rey's Born to Die (Village Voice, The, 2011)
Jamie Atkins considers the commodious box set that is the Clash's Sound System (Record Collector, 2013)
John Calvert talks us track-by-track through Tame Impala's new album Currents (New Musical Express, 2015)
Michael A. Gonzales on the powerful hip hop poetics of Common's Black America Again (Wire, The, 2017)
Tony Burke takes to various-artists compilation The Rough Guide To Mali Blues (Morning Star, 2019)
