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John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin: John Paul Jones: Life After Led Zeppelin

Profile and Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Happening, October 1999

WHILE JOHN Paul Jones will forever be known as the bassist and keyboardist of Led Zeppelin, his musical legacy extends far beyond the boundaries of ...

Divine Styler

Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, URB, June 2000

FOR LEGENDARY MC, Divine Styler, music is recorded mindstate. The modulated wail of the muezzin that initiates Word Power 2: Directrix, his opus dei, is ...

Chicago: 34 years and Counting

Profile and Interview by Debbie Kruger, Goldmine, 16 June 2000

"With this album, we dedicate ourselves, our futures and our energies to the people of the revolution... And the revolution in all of its forms."So ...

Merle Haggard: Workin' Man Blues

Profile and Interview by RJ Smith, Spin, November 2000

MERLE HAGGARD'S DONE MORE TIME THAN OL' DIRTY BASTARD AND HAS BEEN MAKING HARDCORE COUNTRY RECORDS SINCE BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. AT 63, HE'S GOT ...

Radiohead and Whose Army

Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, 2001

THE TOWERING inferno is visible from miles away. Thom Yorke drives towards the horizon, the acrid stench of toxic smoke filling his car. He cranks ...

Sara Cox: Vox Cox

Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Observer, 24 June 2001

IT'S 7AM AND the tall, pretty young woman I'm watching work has clearly not been out of bed too long. Her blonde hair is tied ...

Marianne Faithfull

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, AnOther Magazine, Fall 2001

ON THE TOP floor of a Georgian townhouse, a punt away from the Lansdowne Road rugby stadium, one of rock's greatest female icons bends down ...

Fugazi, Minor Threat: Ian MacKaye: Inventing Hardcore

Profile and Interview by Ben Myers, Careless Talk Costs Lives, March 2002

"These are our demands: we want control of our bodies. decisions will now be ours. you can carry out your noble actions, we will carry ...

Linda Ronstadt: Home At Last: The Journey of Linda Ronstadt

Profile and Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 21 February 2003

THERE ARE many things about her career that Linda Ronstadt wishes she'd done differently. Still, the most successful female singer of the rock 'n' roll ...

Adrian Sherwood: It's My Turn

Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Guardian, 24 February 2003

THERE'S NOTHING about the outside of Adrian Sherwood's home in north London to explain why the likes of Sinead O'Connor, Sly and Robbie, Primal Scream ...

Holland-Dozier-Holland: They Wrote The Songs

Profile and Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, May 2003

An exclusive HITS dialogue with Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland by Roy Trakin ...

R.E.M.: Captains of Industry

Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2003

World tour, new album, R.E.M. are fit, happy and working again. Twenty years ago it was all so different. ...

Johnny Pacheco: Latin Swing's Last Lion: 
Johnny Pacheco Returns to the New York His Salsa Once Changed

Profile and Interview by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 20 January 2004

DAPPER, CHARISMATIC, and 68 years young, Johnny Pacheco is one of New York's cultural lions, a Juilliard alumnus who revolutionized the way Afro-Latin swing, a/k/a ...

OutKast: Superfunk Brothers

Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, Observer Music Monthly, 22 February 2004

Outkast are a rap act like no other - as interested in Kate Bush as in hardcore hip hop, and as likely to be found ...

Youssou N'Dour: A Song and a Prayer

Profile and Interview by Mark Hudson, The Observer, 23 May 2004

As the first superstar of world music, Youssou N'Dour has consistently sought to reconcile Africa and the West, but his most personal record yet is ...

The Blue Nile

Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 2004

HIGH IS THE BLUE NILE'S fourth album in twenty one years. It is – and shame on you if you doubted – worth the wait. ...

Kate Bush: Return of the Recluse

Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, Independent on Sunday, 2 October 2005

PLENTY HAS HAPPENED in the twelve years since Kate Bush last released an album. Tory sleaze has morphed into New Labour; mobile phones and iPods ...

Delta 5: Delta Force

Profile and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, March 2006

WHILE THREE-gal/two-guy outfit Delta 5 didn't exactly fly under the radar, its relatively brief tenure (1979-'81) meant the Leeds, England, band never got its proper ...

Scritti Politti: The Green Piece

Profile and Interview by Jim Irvin, The Word, July 2006

A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION to begin. Why are we all here? Well, it's because pop music's fucking great, isn't it? ...

Gary Numan: Numan Finds His Way

Profile and Interview by j. poet, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 August 2006

"IN AMERICA I'm still the classic one hit wonder," Gary Numan says philosophically, via phone from his home outside of London. ...