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Audio Interview
John Tobler discusses Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Wilsey with Chris Isaak (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1987)
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Features and interviews
Maureen Cleave hears about family and funerals from Solomon Burke (The Evening Standard, 1965)
Richard Goldstein quizzes Simon & Garfunkel (The Village Voice, 1966)
Maureen O'Grady has a heart-to-heart with Scott Walker (Rave, 1968)
Eleven years after the singer's tragic death, Mike Gormley reports on the continuing influence of Buddy Holly (Detroit Free Press, 1970)
Frank Bach on the key place in Detroit rock'n'roll inhabited by incarcerated MC5 manager John Sinclair (The Ann Arbor Sun, 1971)
Andrew Tyler hears from Lindisfarne's Alan Hull (Disc, 1973)
Jon Tiven in conversation with Joe Walsh (International Musician & Recording World, 1975)
Deanne Stillman meets legendary R&B choreographer Cholly Atkins (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Jim Sullivan elicits the thoughts of Police men Sting and Stewart Copeland (Sweet Potato, 1979)
Andy Schwartz converses with Marshall Crenshaw (New York Rocker, 1981)
Betsy Sherman gets philosophical with Simple Minds' Jim Kerr (Boston Rock, 1983)
Maureen O'Grady looks back with Rolling Stone Bill Wyman (19, 1985)
Chris Heath meets Swing Out Sister (Smash Hits, 1987)
Ravers unite! Sheryl Garratt reports on the Second Summer of Love (The Face, 1989)
Mal Peachey grabs a chat with Johnny Cash (Daily Telegraph, 1990)
Paul Elliott discusses "Black Rock" with Living Colour (Vox, 1991)
A transcription of Adam Sweeting's 1993 audio interview with Paul Simon (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1993)
Kris Needs meets techno godfather Juan Atkins (Mixmag, 1993)
Caitlin Moran grabs a chat with Black Grape (The Times, 1995)
Emma Warren meets French electro-moodists Air (Jockey Slut, 1997)
Glenn O'Brien is moved by Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind (Artforum, 1998)
Sean O'Hagan considers the Chemical Brothers (The Guardian, 1999)
James Hunter talks to country superstar George Strait (Entertainment Weekly, 2002)
Lisa Verrico meets the snappily-monikered Dogs Die In Hot Cars (The Times, 2004)
John L. Walters questions the "overkill" of Miles Davis box sets (The Guardian, 2006)
Kieron Tyler's sleevenotes for the Miami and Muscle Shoals recordings on Lulu's Atco Sesssions (Atlantic Records, 2007)
Jim Sullivan has a chat with Pixie-in-chief Black Francis (Boston Herald, 2010)
Paul Lester introduces the Lemon Twigs (The Guardian, 2016)
David Burke talks to southern country-soul siren Candi Staton (Classic Pop, 2018)
Steve Pafford looks back on the game-changing David ("I'm gay and always have been") Bowie (DNA, 2018)
Rob Tannenbaum revisits Roxy Music's "glam-rock art-school" masterpiece For Your Pleasure (Pitchfork, 2019)
Mitchell Cohen on Burt Bacharach and "modern cosmopolitan pop" (Music Aficionado, 2020)
Ian Winwood on the enduring "lifeline" that is Peter Gabriel's 'Don’t Give Up' (Daily Telegraph, 2020)
Steven R. Rosen hears about The Sea Drift from the Delines' Willy Vlautin and Amy Boone (Rock & Roll Globe, 2022)
Album & Live Reviews
A fortnight after the soul icon's death, Pete Johnson reviews The History of Otis Redding (Los Angeles Times, 1967)
Richard Green sees Led Zeppelin, live at Birmingham Town Hall (New Musical Express, 1969)
Mike Gormley checks out new albums by Beaver & Krause and the Grateful Dead (Detroit Free Press, 1970)
Dan Nooger sees a sobered-up Ray Davies fronting the Kinks, live at NYC's Felt Forum (The Village Voice, 1972)
Peter Jones gets a little hot under the collar as he listens to The Three Degrees (Record Mirror, 1974)
Phillip Elwood experiences an evening of smooooth jazz-funk from George Benson and Grover Washington, Jr. (The San Francisco Examiner, 1976)
Ian Birch attempts to make sense of Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band (Melody Maker, 1978)
Mark Cooper loathes Queen, live at Oakland Auditorium (Record Mirror, 1980)
Sam Sutherland succumbs to Elvis Costello's country outing Almost Blue (High Fidelity, 1982)
Martin Aston sees John Cale, live at London's Electric Ballroom (Melody Maker, 1984)
Richard Cromelin is neither shocked nor satisfied by Jesse Johnson's Shockadelica (Los Angeles Times, 1986)
Michael Azerrad sees ex-Led Zep frontman Robert Plant, live in New Jersey (Rolling Stone, 1988)
Andy Gill isn't scared of Public Enemy's Fear Of A Black Planet (The Independent, 1990)
Caroline Sullivan catches London shows by Curve and Primal Scream (The Guardian, 1992)
Local boy Robert Gordon joins in the Mekons' Retreat From Memphis (L.A. Weekly, 1994)
Evelyn McDonnell reviews Rage Against The Machine, live at NYC's Roseland Ballroom (Rolling Stone, 1996)
Neil Mason dusts down the Dust Junkys' Done & Dusted (Melody Maker, 1998)
Simon Reynolds meets More Fire Crew's Neeko (Uncut, 2003)
Nick Hasted hails three reissues by the late Elliott Smith (Uncut, 2005)
John Lewis previews an operatic adaptation of David Lynch's Lost Highway (The Times, 2008)
Kieron Tyler reviews Björk's Biophilia "concert extravaganza" in Reykjavik (Billboard, 2011)
Holly Gleason hears Kris Kristofferson's Feeling Mortal (Paste, 2013)
Andy Gill reviews Kasabian's For Crying Out Loud (The Independent, 2017)
Via a book review, John L. Walters revisits Art Kane's 1958 "Great Day in Harlem" photograph (Eye, 2019)
Chris Charlesworth sees a Chris-Stein-less Blondie, live in Brighton (Just Backdated, 2022)
Iman Lababedi listens to Olivia Rodrigo, live at Radio City Music Hall (RockNYC, 2022)
