Having only seen the whirling dervish stage persona of NAKED TRUTH's demented vocalist Doug Watts, I was rather taken aback on meeti...
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INTERVIEW: REDD KROSS
Caught in the Kross Fire Gere's telling me the one about the guy who used to come into hospital with Barbie Doll heads stuck ...
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Album Review: Biffy Clyro "Only Revolutions"
In these days of short attention spans and homogenized musical gunk, it's reassuring to see the Scottish alt-rockers get within t...
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INTERVIEW: TRAVIS MITCHELL, MINDSTORM
Critically acclaimed Canadian rockers MINDSTORM will be here touring through November and December, out to promote a strikingly powerful...
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"IT'S OUR LAND; WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT!"
Orit Arfa, Settler Slut for Greater Israel Last year, following her now-infamous appearance on the VMAs, I weighed in on Miley Cyrus&...
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ALBUM REVIEW: GRAND AVENUE "PLACE TO FALL"
Grand Avenue is still one of rock’s best kept secrets. It's hard to explain why a band that does what Coldplay does (that is, cha...
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PREVIEW: SOUL ASYLUM
SHINING THROUGH Fame may have been a long time a-coming for SOUL ASYLUM but having achieved worldwide success with their last album, ...
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QUOTE: MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE MEETS THE BEATLES
Malcolm Muggeridge was an important essayist and TV personality from the 1950s until his death in 1990. He also kept a diary, in which h...
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Album Review: Lenny Kravitz "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
With Are You Gonna Go My Way , that sleazy sex symbol and all-round hepcat, Lenny Kravitz, offers us another piece of his 60s/early 70...
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David Bowie: Visions of Swastikas
Nowadays the world has gone PC mad. Everybody is forced to toe the line, lest they offend, "trigger," or commit "micro-a...
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Preview: The 4 of Us
WORDS IN ACTION The 4 of Us are in fact...five! They have been described as the "hope carriers for the new decade playing aba...
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Revenge Recommends: "Baba O'Riley" by The Who
One of the essential components of great rock is lairyness: Definition: "British slang: Displaying an aggressive attitude in orde...
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Live Review: Kings X, The Astoria, April, 1990
THE X FACTOR The inevitable dry ice billows forth from the stage, followed by a suitable doomy intro; Kings X take the stage we...
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Album Review: Die Arzte "...presents Die Arzte"
What do you do when you’ve been in a great melodic German punk band for 20 years and the language barriers finally start to break down? ...
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Album Review: Fight "War of Words"
There's something faintly hilarious about an early 80s metal icon who looks like Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame) trying to look...
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Video Review: Monsters in Moscow
Covering the "Monsters of Rock" show of 1991 in Moscow. Soon after the failed plot by Communist hardliners to overthrow Pre...
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Video: The WHO – Chaotic Interview from 1973
Why were the Who such a great band? One reason was the incredible energy generated by the interplay of the unruly personalities of the...
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Revenge Recommends: "When Love Comes to Town" by B.B. King and U2
Blues legend, B.B.King has passed away at the grand old age of 89. Here he is more or less as I remember him, playing with U2 on their...
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Album Review: XYZ, "Hungry"
"Every night is Saturday night for us, and hungry is what we are. It's one guitar, one voice, drums, bass, skin, bones, rock n...
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Revenge Recommends: "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" by Alice Cooper
The Ballad of Dwight Fry is a high point of any Alice Cooper show, a tense, psychotic song that breaks its bounds towards the end – j...
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Interview: Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals
Having worked with one of the Beatles, it shouldn't be too surprising that Gruff Rhys, the singer/guitarist of eclectic Welsh roc...
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Album Review: Alice Cooper, "Welcome 2 My Nightmare"
From Michael Jackson's zombie dancing in Thriller to Slipknot's famed alter egos, and the psycho-clown affectations of the J...
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Sympathy for Their Satanic Majesties
Their Satanic Majesties Request is, to my mind, the most British and therefore the most authentic of all Rolling Stones albums. Their ...
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Live Review: Parov Stelar, Strasbourg Zenith, April 2015
A Stelar Performance... So, who exactly are the 'Parov Stelar Band' and what do they really play? Some call it "jazz...
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Interview: Geoff Thorpe, Vicious Rumors
Balls to the Wall It's been a while since San Francisco act VICIOUS RUMORS launched an album. About a year to be precise. Their ...
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Album Review: Misha Calvin, “Evolution”
Listening to the creative, exuberant six string talent of Yugoslavian-born Misha 'The Hat' Calvin is a welcome antidote to th...
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Photo: Mike Scott on Stage in Tokyo
Mike Scott of the Waterboys live on stage at the Shibuya Club Quattro on 6th of April, 2015, their first gig in Tokyo for 18 year...
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Album Review, Deep Purple, "Battle Rages On"
Following Joe Lynn Turner's departure from the Deep Purple ranks, Purple MK II have re-reformed, cashing in the lucarative prospe...
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Live Review: Wolfsbane, Bradford Queens Hall, 10th March, 1990
Tamworth's finest returned from the USA to Bradford for the second date of their tour. They got a heroes welcome as they walked o...
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Live Review: Drums, Shibuya Quattro, 18th May, 2011
It's par for the course now. You come to Japan for a gig, you make obeisance at the shrine of the Great Quake. You at least ask &...
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Album Review: Asphalt Ballet, "Asphalt Ballet"
We, as a magazine, have been chasing the progress of this band for some time. They were first brought to our attention via dear Babs ov...
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Interview: Emily Haines, Metric
The great dilemma for modern rock musicians is the need to maintain the creativity of earlier generations along with the constant f...
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