Following their stunning set on the MTV Awards, where they came off second best in a dramatic punch up with their own equipment, NIRVANA...
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Interview: Kieran Webster "The View"
You're 19 or 20 and already people expect you to be a role model. This is the situation faced by members of one of the UK's ho...
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Interview: Mark "the Shark" Shelton and Bryan "Hellroadie" Patrick, Manilla Road
First of all, Marshabaloosh is the evil deity that makes you stub your toe, step on a nail, makes your wife divorce you, starts worl...
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Album Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd "The Last Rebel"
To some Lynyrd Skynyrd are rollicking country rock with 'real' songs and anthems about, and for, ordinary everyday folk. For oth...
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Interview: Stuart Adamson, Big Country
DIE HARD It's been a long time coming but it seems that Big Country have finally delivered an album that compares favoura...
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Preview: Soul Asylum
NONE BUT THE GRAVE Soul Asylum are best known for 1988's Hang Time LP, a bristling collection of guitar-driven pop songs. Now b...
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Album Review: Dread Zeppelin, "Un-Led-Ed"
A Led Zep covers album? Hmmm... but there's a little bit more to it than that. Un-Led-Ed is a bizarre collision of Led Zep, Elvis...
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Album Review: Poison "Native Tongue"
Native Tongue is a progression of sorts, with new guitarist Richie Kotzen contributing a welcome thrust of gritty dynamics to their sou...
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Revenge Recommends: "Electric Man" by Rival Sons
Great bluesy rock. Don't worry about the rather meaningless lyrics - just some guy getting his "thang" on - but dig that...
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Interview: Grant Richardson, Slide
SOLID ROCK Slide are a classy young band who play an accomplished brand of bluesy rock. The band are from Glasgow and are beginnin...
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Lady GAGA Without Her 'Slap' Might Make You GAG
On stage she is a chameleon-like icon of potent and powerful feminine imagery, channeling the voguish and decadent sexual aesthetic of t...
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Album Review: Skyclad "Jonah's Ark"
If you're over twelve, you've probably grown out of this and are investing your money on more grown-up things like acne cream. W...
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Live Review: Midnight Oil, Wembley Arena, 1990
OIL RIGHT NOW Midnight Oil are the antithesis of the stereotypical image of Australians. They're not the Crocodile Dundee ty...
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Album Review: Fishbone "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe"
Los Angeles' Fishbone are one of the wildest, most energetic bands I've ever seen live. A shame then that their sprawling array...
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Live Review: Cock Sparrer at Chicago Double Door, 2nd December, 2016
Acclaimed novelist Ann Sterzinger reviews one of Cocksparrer's Chicago gigs for Revenge . Rock fans will definitely enjoy her masterp...
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Japanese TV: Interview with Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins
Pull quote: "We come from some sort of an alternative world and we just don't believe in doing things normally..." Bil...
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SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON LAIBACH'S CRITIQUE OF WESTERN POWER
The world famous Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizak on Laibach's 2015 performance in North Korea . Zizek views Laibach as a grim ...
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ROCKUMENTARY: LOOP ON THE BEEB, 1989
Loop were a psychedelic, punk-inflected, grungey, stoner rock band from the late 80s, with a hat-tip or two to the Stooges and Suic...
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ALBUM REVIEW: BON JOVI, "KEEP THE FAITH"
With Keep the Faith , Bon Jovi don't really deviate too much from their well-trodden path… The contagious title track , a vast ly...
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YOSHITOMO NARA'S STRANGE INSPIRAL CARPETS FIXATION
Yoshitomo Nara is one of the top three or four contemporary Japanese artists, painting pop art pics of cute but gnarly children with l...
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Preview: Biffy Clyro / Trashcan Sinatras, Japan 2010
Biffy Clyro It's not often that you get two bands from the same small corner of Scotland appearing in Japan at the same time, but ...
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Interview: Zodiac Mindwarp
Senses Working Overtime Zodiac Mindwarp and his cronies are about to unleash a second slab of their raw, primal biker anthems onto a...
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Interview: Graham Bonnet & Bob Kulick, Blackthorne
Kulick and Bonnet, 2nd and 3rd from left. Masters of Reality Blackthorne, put together by guitarist Bob Kulick and featuring the...
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Album Review: Gomez "In Our Gun"
It's postulated that once the Universe stops expanding, it will start contracting and that Time itself will start running backwards....
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Video: Golden Years
Ricky Gervais found stardom in 2001 with the hit comedy series The Office , but much of that highly successful series derived from a ...
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Album Review: Voivod, "Angel Rat"
VOIVOD are unpredictable – an immensely strange talent who were instrumental in the development of the techno-Metal/Thrash sound. Over t...
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Interview: Debbie Harry, Blondie
Blondie says goodbye with greatest hits tour After a career broken by a lengthy period of retirement, Blondie are finally cal...
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Interview: Carnival Art
Culture shock can be a funny thing. Take CARNIVAL ART, a subversive rock n' roll quartet, hailing from L.A. and according to thei...
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Album Review, Rox, "Memoirs"
The year is 2009 and Amy Winehouse, after stumbling upon a winning formula of retro-cutesy blues n’ soul, sung by a London girl with a &...
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Interview: Dave King, Flogging Molly
King of Flogging Molly not slowing down When Dave King started blending the rich musical textures of traditional Irish music to th...
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Album Review: Airship, "Stuck in this Ocean"
The first few seconds of the first track on this album tell you everything you need to know about this young English band and, much mor...
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Album Review: Radiohead "Amnesiac"
Radiohead must think they signed a Faustian contract when they became corporate music fodder. Kid A , with its absence of easy-to-whis...
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Live Review: River City People, The Marquee, 20th March, 1990
Here I am once more at the Marquee and I've come to see River City People mainly on the strength of a video on The Chart Show , and...
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Interview: Fish
FREEDOM FIGHTER FISH is a 'towering personality.' This charismatic Scotsman is never short of something interesting to say...
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Album Review: Oasis, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
There they are, melded together like the New York skyscrapers in the distance, the giants of Rock – Sir Paul McCartney, the Stones, Jimi...
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Album Review: Tom Petty, "Into the Great Wide Open"
TOM PETTY has got to be one of the most resilient figures in rock n' roll, surviving such incidents as breaking his hand whilst in a...
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Photo: Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden
Typical full-page photo in Riff Raff, this one shot by Phil Kehoe at an Iron Maiden gig.
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Live Review: The Mission, Wembley Arena, 23rd March, 1990
Photo by Dave Clark Shomeshing Missioning Think of the MISSION and up springs the cliches, i.e. the dry ice, dark shades, swirling...
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INTERVIEW: JOIE MASTROKALOS, CIRCLE OF SOUL
Hollywood Records have been picking up some class acts in America; CIRCLE OF SOUL being one of them. Their debut album Hands of Faith has...
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