I first saw the Dog D'Amour several years ago at the Embassy club. Tonight it's Hammersmith Odeon. The Dogs haven't changed...
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Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins "Machina/ the Machines of God"
After the massive success and myriad ideas showcased on the sprawling two hours of Mellon Collie... , Billy Corgan's combo had succe...
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Album Review: Okkervil River, "I Am Very Far"
The archetypal Okkervil River album song draws from folk and rock, and has a cyclical ascendant feel created by dense, throbbing guitar ...
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Live Review: The Quireboys, The Marquee, 12th October, 1989
Whiskey in the Bar A clear but cold October evening in London is a far cry from the sunshine and smog of Los Angeles, but the bar ...
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Interview: Richie Sambora
On hearing that Joe "Schmo" Mackett had been asked to interview RICHIE SAMBORA, I figured that it was time for some severe gr...
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Revenge Recommends: "Games Without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel
Games Without Frontiers is a Peter Gabriel song from his 1980 album. It was inspired by the TV game show "It's a Knockout,&qu...
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Album Review: Summerlin, "You Can't Burn Out If You're Not On Fire"
I blame the Yorkshire weather. Growing up, the five young lads in Summerlin must have spent a lot of time indoors watching American TV ...
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Live Review: Slide, Camden Palace, 30th January, 1990
Slide It In Camden Palace on a Tuesday night isn't exactly the best place for a young, aspiring, straight-down-the-line rock ban...
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Revenge Recommends: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
On this day (24th November) in 1991, Freddie Mercury, probably the greatest Zoroastrian since the Emperor Chosroes II of the Sassanian...
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The Pimp Fascism of Rihanna
Three orifices held together by an intermediate biomorphic mass. I've never really seen what all the fuss is about Rihanna, who...
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Interview: Stuart Adamson, Big Country
In may be early in the morning but Big Country's Stuart Adamson is full of bonhomie and very much awake. Stuart is speaking to me f...
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Album Review: Giant, "Last of the Runaways"
Out of America come Giant with their A&M debut. It's a typically American effort, with much of the material drawing on many AOR...
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Photo: Lee Dorian, Cathedral
Following the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake which struck Japan on March 11th, 2011, many bands and musicians played safe and cancelled ...
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Interview: Corey Glover, Living Colour
NOBODY'S PERFECT Here I am sitting in the relative splendor of Living Colour's hotel suite. Opposite me is the band'...
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Album Review: Travis "The Invisible Band"
There used to be a time when the Brits made all the heavy rock, while the Yanks turned out winsome, countryish pop-rock. Now all the heav...
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Video Review: Mr. Big, "Lean Into It"
There's a special message on this video from Pat Torpey (drums): "When you're in the tub - don't use a hairdryer. Cos&...
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Album Review: Pearl Jam, "Ten"
With members culled from MOTHER LOVE BONE and TEMPLE OF THE DOG Pearl Jam's Ten is a most anticipated release. Even the normally...
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Preview: Japandroids, Japan, 2013
With a name like Japandroids, it must only have been a matter of time for the up-and-coming indie rockers to gravitate towards these sh...
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The Myth of Marley
Marley: Shot in Jamaica; endorsed by White rock royalty Bob Marley is Jamaica, and everybody in Jamaica loves Marley and has always ...
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Live Review: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Wembley Arena, 29th October, 1989
What's in a name? Legally, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe can't call themselves 'Yes.' Musically, you can't really...
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Interview: Monty Colvin, "Galactic Cowboys"
"Why did Metallica cross Abbey Road? So they could become the Galatic Cowboys" - useful shorthand for describing the Houston b...
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Album Review: Galactic Cowboys "Space in Your Face"
In the future, according to Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure , a band with a name as refreshingly dumb as the "Wyld Stallyons&quo...
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Interview: Dave Wyndorf, Monster Magnet
PSYCHODELIA Monster Magnet made their mark with Spine of God but it's their new release Superjudge , overloaded on psychopathi...
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Jessie's Girl: The Angst of an Alpha
In 1981, Australia-born soap opera star Rick Springfield first burst to the top of the American pop charts with Jessie's Girl , a t...
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Album Review: My Life With The Kill Thrill Kult "Sexplosion"
When I was a young larvae, I used to think that music without the classic Heavy Rock guitar was like a man without a dick. But - Hey Du...
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The Wily Shiteness and Slyly Whiteness of Miley Cyrus
Well done, Miley. You've finally done it. I was trying to ignore you, like all the rest of the dross and mulch that is forced throu...
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Tapescript Interview: Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis, SUGAR
THE FLY versus SUGAR In 1992, while visiting the offices of the rock magazine Riff Raff , THE FLY was suddenly asked if it could ...
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Interview: Merv Goldsworthy, FM
Back on the Streets FM are neither big nor small, neither hip nor has-been. With a potentially huge following, they are on the verge...
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Album Review: "The Velvet Underground & Nico" by The Velvet Underground & Nico
Imagine if you got two distinct but not very good albums and spliced them together. The result might actually sound better, or at least...
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Album Review: Neil Young, "Harvest"
In 1972, a strange thing happened: Americans, a people who up until that time had thought of themselves as a collective John Wayne, almo...
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Interview: Justin Sullivan, New Model Army
And England's Dreaming New Model Army's 6th studio album The Love of Hopeless Causes is a harder hitting and more 'liv...
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Interview: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull
Living in the Present Jethro Tull are something of an institution in the world of rock music. Their brand of hard-edged folk '...
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Video Review: Neil Young, "Unplugged"
Although supremely shot, Unplugged isn't too visually stimulating but the strength of material satisfies the most selective palate. ...
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Interview: Solomon Burke
King Solomon Mines a New Lease on Life After a few relatively lean years, the Japan Blues & Soul Carnival has landed a big fish a...
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Live Review: Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Edwards No.8, Birmingham, 1990
Just what do you call this stuff? thrash? Hardcore? Speedcore? Crossover? Personally I favour the Crossover monicker, after the first ...
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Album Review: Black Sabbath, "13"
13 heralds a very welcome return of the old-school signature sound reminiscent of 'vintage' Black Sabbath. The synths and thea...
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The Wail of the Cuckold
The lyrics of most modern-day pop songs are dippy, dopey, silly, sappy, and altogether crappy. But every so often, we have an anthemic ...
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Interview: Michael Schenker & Robin McAuley, MSG
More Than a Feeling Michael Schenker and Robin McAuley pull the plugs on their new album and dig deep into the heart of a successfu...
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Preview: James Blunt, Japan, 2006
Blunt Object 2005 was James Blunt's year. His debut album Back to Bedlam , a mix of bittersweet folk pop and blue–eyed soul wa...
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Live Review: Hunter/ Ronson, Hammersmith Odeon, 18th February, 1990
Returning to these shores from the sunnier climes of the American West Coast, Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson could arguably be accused of j...
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Album Review: The Waterboys "Dream Harder"
Now relocated to New York, Mike Scott has left behind his bog standard infatuation with Irish traditional music and returned with this ...
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Interview: Chick Corea
The "Bushido" Code of Jazz In December of 2009, Chick Corea, in company with Lenny White and Stanley Clarke, played a ru...
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Revenge Recommends, "Mother" by Pink Floyd
In time for Mothers' Day, here's one of the greatest rock songs ever about mothers. In the late 70s punk rock was suppo...
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Album Review: Therapy? "Nurse"
This is a thoroughly nasty little dose of psychotic techno-Punk from the much-touted Ulstermen. It's also a faintly bewildering rec...
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Album Review: Grant Lee Buffalo, "Fuzzy"
Not a mere man, Grant Lee Buffalo are indeed a band hailing form the US of A who offer an eclectic mixture of styles held together unde...
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The Fly: Bono's Unfeasibly Large Ego
One of the strangest album covers in rock history was 2009's No Line On The Horizon by U2. The sleeve's picture was actually...
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