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Gil Scott-Heron

Interview by Richard Harrington, Unicorn Times, June 1975

"I'VE BEEN doing what I'm doing for five years on records and for longer in my life," says Gil Scott-Heron, who seems to be approaching ...

Arthur Lee, Lightspeed Champion: Alone again, or

Comment by Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 19 March 2008

In memoriam: Ike Turner, Buddy Miles, Teo Macero, and Arthur Lee ...

Who, The: The Zombie Cometh!

Comment by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 7 October 1967

NICK JONES is worried about British pop audiences. Here he explains why. ...

Last Poets, The, Lightnin' Rod, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: Jalal Nuridden:The Verse Is Yet To Come

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 29 September 1984

LAST POET Jalal Nuridden recites to Chris Roberts ...

Ike Turner, Benjamin Booker, DD Dumbo, Rag'N'Bone Man: "A little punk, a little jazz, a little shoegaze": Meet the new blues

Report and Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 1 January 2015

From the spirituals of the deep south to the White Stripes, it's a music that has constantly reimagined itself. But is anyone really ready for ...

Santana: Carlos Santana: Many hippie returns

Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 6 November 2005

He played at Woodstock while out of his brain on LSD. But at 58, Carlos Santana isn't just a 1960s relic: stars like Beyoncé and ...

Eric Clapton, Morrissey: Eric Clapton & Enoch Powell To Morrissey: Race In British Music Since '76

Essay by David Stubbs, The Quietus, 9 August 2016

During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades ...

Poetry is Revolution: Underground Radio

Essay by John Sinclair, Ann Arbor Argus, 13 February 1969

"In a modern telecommunications society, the radio station is one of the real seats of authority; its seizure the seal of a successful revolution." — ...

Steel Pulse: Black Pride Don't Mean Black Racism... Meet — The Handsworth Klan

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 10 June 1978

Steel Pulse guitarist DAVID HINDS talks to ROY CARR about the joys and vexations of a British reggae band. ...

Ray Davies: Amended Legacy: The Kinks' Ray Davies Interviewed

Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 11 April 2017

As Ray Davies prepares for the launch of the next phase of his colossal Americana project, Patrick Clarke speaks to the Kinks frontman on America, ...

Arthur Lee: Love hurts

Retrospective and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1999

SOMETHING ABOUT Arthur Lee invites myth. Lee – the cantankerous, charismatic singer and guitarist of the groundbreaking yet largely forgotten band Love – inspires tales ...

Country Joe & The Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Charlatans, The (US), Big Brother & The Holding Company: Suddenly That Summer

Retrospective and Interview by Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, July 2012

It was billed as "the Summer of Love", a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco ...

Eagles, The: Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget: A Few Thoughts on Iraq, 'Hotel California' and Coming Home

Essay by Deanne Stillman, Los Angeles Review of Books, 23 August 2014

FOR THE PAST three years, I've been away from California, living in Arizona but returning to the Golden State as much as I could. It ...

Rhoda Dakar, Marsha Hunt, Madeline Bell, Carleen Anderson, N'Dea Davenport, Denise Johnson, Dee C Lee, Pauline Henry, Shara Nelson: The New Soul Rebels

Report and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Vox, April 1994

Singing hairdos? Not any longer. Britain's new breed of single black females are feisty, independent and take no prisoners ...

Johnny Marr, Smiths, The: Johnny Marr on the Smiths, Morrissey and putting politics back in pop

Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 11 January 2013

With the release of his first solo album The Messenger, the former Smiths guitarist talks about finally embracing his old sound, David Cameron and why ...

Manic Street Preachers: Our Manics in Havana

Report and Interview by Simon Price, The Guardian, 2 March 2001

Wales's fab three have just become the first major western rock act ever to play in Cuba. Simon Price went with them ...

Living Colour, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Faith: Fear of Music: A Tribute to Black Rock Coalition

Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Red Bull Academy Magazine, 7 October 2015

Michael Gonzales pens a love letter to the pioneering organization that helped propel Living Colour and others to stardom. ...

Richard Meltzer: An Interview

Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2000

AS ONE OF the first people who decided that rock and roll was something that could and should be something that could be seriously written ...

Lester Bangs: Loud Bangs and Bestial Noises

Essay by Mark Sinker, The Wire, September 2001

In the 20 years since Lester Bangs wrote his 'Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise', the multi-mediated world has largely assimilated the hostile sounds he espoused. ...

Leonard Cohen: Felonious Monk

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, November 2001

He stole hearts and sought refuge in Hydra, bagged a celebrity fiancée, then disappeared to a monastery. Sylvie Simmons talks through the many lives of ...

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