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Goldie: Judge Dread

Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 5 August 1995

GOLDIE is being called the Jimi Hendrix of jungle, the charismatic centre of an extraordinary new music. His debut album, Timeless, is a hugely inventive, ...

Warren Zevon: Left Jabs and Roundhouse Rights

Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 18 August 1995

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE a romantic. These might be the words of wisdom for those who have ever counted themselves fans of singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, especially the ...

Charlie Haden: Home Bass

Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, September 1995

CHARLIE HADEN — bassist in Ornette Coleman's epochal late '50s quartet and former leader of the politically charged Liberation Orchestra — has spawned some mighty ...

Blur: Graham Coxon: I'm Completely at Odds With Everything

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 23 September 1995

He hated the 'Country House' video and had doubts about it as a single. He thought of sabotaging his band's attempts to win that coveted ...

Bonnie Raitt: Still Burning Down The House

Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, October 1995

This redheaded Grammy Queen is back with the first live album of her long career – an album that harkens back to her grittier pre-platinum ...

George Jones, Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Ex: George Jones and Tammy Wynette

Interview by Mark Cooper, MOJO, October 1995

Wait till I get you home...to Splitsville, Tennessee, where George Jones and Tommy Wynette have resided since the classic song D.I.V.O.R.C.E. came true following perhaps ...

Björk: Call Of The Wild: Bjork

Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Vox, October 1995

Bjork hasn’t let two years of critical kudos and VIP bullshit go to her head. As she heads out on a major world tour, VOX ...

Silverchair: Eating M&Ms with Silverchair — Australia's Teen Wonders Turn Up the Volume and Storm the American Charts, Frogstomp Indeed.

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Addicted To Noise, October 1995

SAN FRANCISCO — The Mars/Hershey candy company recently added robin's egg blue to their bouquet of M&M candy colors. To most of us, that would ...

Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Hundred Year Hall and the '72 European Tour

Interview by David Gans, The Grateful Dead Hour, 16 October 1995

The Album Network Special: Hundred Year HallPhil Lesh and Bob Weir interviewed 9/7/95 by Marty Martinez and David Gans ...

Tricky: Uneasy Listening

Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 22 October 1995

Hip, maverick rapper Tricky talks exclusively about the dark reality that inspires his music ...

Rocket From The Crypt: Cats With Nine Knives

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 28 October 1995

They mean it, maaan. Punk from the States is so often tame, familiar and predictable, but that looks set to change with the imminent success ...

Al Green: Still Spreading The Good Word

Interview by Amy Linden, New York Daily News, 31 October 1995

THE REVEREND Al Green is explaining why, after 18 years of singing sacred music, his gospel fans will understand why he has re-entered the world ...

Leftfield: Kings of '95: Leftfield

Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, January 1996

A nomination for the Mercury Prize. An appearance on Top Of The Pops. Music for the soundtrack to Shallow Grave. Oh, and a gold album. ...

Stereolab: Simple Minds

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Rolling Stone, 4 April 1996

"Repetition in the music and we're never gonna lose it," sang Mark E. Smith of the English post-punk legends the Fall in the aptly titled ...

Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler: Mark Knopfler

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, May 1996

"I’m always conscious of... how hard life is for a lot of people," says Mark Knopfler. The eight-bar rest midsentence is characteristic. Likewise, the right ...

Steve Earle: Birth, School, Work, Heroin, Coke, Marriage, Heroin, Marriage, Crack, Prison...

Interview by Bill Prince, Q, 1 May 1996

There are eight million stories... and they all happened to Steve Earle. Six weddings, 27 years of drug addiction, 30 days in chokey, one hit ...

Moloko: I Should Moloko

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 10 May 1996

Jarvis Cocker predicts big things for them. Rock'n'roll bible The Independent called them Britain's best new band. Clearly, the dizzyingly eclectic MOLOKO can't fail ...

Nas: Ticket To Scribe

Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, 29 June 1996

Having adopted the moniker of one Pablo Escobar, NAS ESCOBAR set about creating vivid lyrical depictions of life in his native New York tenement slums. ...

Shampoo: Hard Candy

Interview by Dave Simpson, i-D, July 1996

It's been two years since Shampoo ram-raided the pop charts with their spunky cartoon-style naughtiness. Now the wash and go-go girls are back, but they're ...

Herb Alpert: It's long way to Tijuana

Interview by Paul Sexton, The Times, 10 July 1996

POP MUSIC. The mid-1960s. The era when Britannia apparently ruled the airwaves. Yet consider the American album chart of 30 years ago this week. The ...