SKINT...BUT HAPPY This month sees the release of SHOTGUN MESSIAH's second album, the aptly titled Second Coming , and a mighty f...
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Self-Loathing Whiteys of Rock (1): John Densmore
"Baby, you can't light my fire unless you're Black (or Joe Cocker)" One of the great myths that the 60s counter cu...
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Revenge Recommends: "Second Skin" by The Chameleons
The bass rumble and chiming, echoey guitars of Manchester post-punkers the Chameleons captured in the band's glory days in 1984 at...
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Preview: Tina Egan
Irish-born vocalist Tina Egan in conjunction with songwriter/ producer Brian Marshall has written more than an album's worth of ...
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Album Review: Iron Maiden, "The Final Frontier"
You could never accuse Iron Maiden of selling out. So loyal are they to their roots and riff structures that they've taken the...
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Preview: Ornette Coleman, Japan, 2006
Some jazz legends have a big impact at the time, but as the years pass their influence gradually diminishes until it is forgotten. Th...
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Album Review: Liquid Jesus, "Pour In The Sky"
From the opening track Intro which has opera singers' ethereal voices floating over a hypnotic chant and digeridoos, it is obvious ...
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Live Review: Marillion, The Astoria, 7th November, 1989
The Kings of London Town Steve Hogarth: smell the gloves. There was a time when no-one could have conceived a Marillion without Fis...
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The True Story of U2’s Shockingly Bad “Songs of Innocence” Cover Image
You will have heard by now that U2’s latest album was forced on the public by being made a compulsory download on iTunes, and that it s...
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Album Review: Black Mountain "Wilderness Heart"
Canadian five-piece Black Mountain play bluesy rock that veers from a hard and heavy (but always warmly fuzzy) sound to something mor...
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Revenge Recommends: "No Quarter" by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin live at Earl's Court Arena, London on Sunday, May 25, 1975, with an extended and at times jazzy version of their song No...
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INTERVIEW: WAYNE HUSSEY, THE MISSION
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED "I am a bit of an old fogey," Wayne Hussey tells me proudly. Surely, Wayne, you cannot be ser...
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Revenge Recommends: "Infected" by The THE
Back in 1986, when The THE released their second album Infected , they little realized that the deadly Ebola virus would be sweeping t...
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Interview: Eddi Reader
Ex-pop star finds bliss in Scottish folk Sometimes you have to go away to come home. That seems to have been the case for Eddi Reader...
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Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
Radiohead get round their songwriting poverty by developing initially startling soundscapes that simply dont belong on a rock record....
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Album Review: Edwyn Collins, "Losing Sleep"
Back in the day – the day being the early 1980s – Edwyn Collins and his then band Orange Juice practically invented the indie guitar po...
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New Release: "Play Ball" by AC/DC
The first track available from AC/DC forthcoming album Rock Or Bust , due out this December, the first album without Malcolm Young.
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Interview: David Gleeson, Screaming Jets
Fuck Rock N' Roll Tear on Thought in comparison to its predecessor All For One sports a much punkier attitude. It's fu...
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Quote: James Dean Bradfield on "Sons and Fascination"
Welsh guitar wizard James Dean Bradfield on one of his favourite albums, Simple Minds' 1981 classic Sons and Fascination : "...
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Interview: Scott Ian & John Bush, Anthrax
A THOUSAND POINTS OF NOISE Anthrax have been through a turbulent time lately, what with the departure of singer Joey Belladonna....
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Interview: Fish
Singer/ songwriter, Fish, has just broken a lengthy period of enforced silence with his new album, "Internal Exile." The past ye...
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Interview: Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne
Offbeat band a hit with white-collar songs American popular music is notoriously selective in its choice of topics. This is somethi...
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Song by Song: "The Joshua Tree" by U2
The Joshua Tree was U2's most important album. It marks the point at which they became a global brand as big as The Beatles or The...
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Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins, "Siamese Dream"
The Pumpkins are never going to be as good as Nirvana. They're already much better. This album is a seamless lava flow of burni...
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Live Review: Jethro Tull, Portsmouth Guildhall, 19th May 1990
THE ENDLESS ENIGMA The enigma of Jethro Tull is captured in the opening moments of their show. As an introductory tape of a cla...
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Overview: U2
In a recent world exclusive with Hot Press magazine, Bono talked at great length to Joe Jackson about, well, just about everything, i...
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Album Review: Laibach, "Spectre"
There have always been doubts about just who Laibach are and what they are up to. First who are they? The band is a collective so it is...
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