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Interview: Angus Young, AC/DC

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AC/DC STILL DELIVERS NO-GIMMICK ROCK "If it ain't broke don't fix it," goes the old adage. And if it's a money-...
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Live Review: Fish, Royal Albert Hall, 9th July, 1990

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What's all this then? FISH the "Tartan Troubadour" amidst the regal splendour of The Royal Albert Hall? Yes, truly a sett...
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Live Review: U2, The Point, Dublin, Dec.30, 1989

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A SORT OF HOMECOMING Dublin’s most famous sons are back in Dublin after an intense and exhausting Love Town tour of Australia, Japan and E...
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Live Review: No Sweat, Islington Powerhaus, 1990

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SWEAT IT OUT The Powerhaus is just the sort of place where you can see a band like NO SWEAT really sweat, but it's just big enough to ...
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Album Review: Rush "Counterparts"

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Counterparts is the strongest Rush album since 1985's Power Windows , 'though it's reminiscent of an earlier effort, 1981...
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Preview: Evanescence, Japan 2007

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DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO A SMOOTH SOUND That 'difficult second album' is one of the clichés of rock music, and like most clichés it ju...
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Live Review: Guns N' Roses, Milton Keynes Bowl, 29th May, 1993

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To be fair Guns N Roses have stripped off some of the garish excesses of the last 18 months, i.e. there’s no horn sections and sultry, g...
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Interview: Ian Astbury, The Cult

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With internet downloads, I-Pods, and other technological breakthroughs, the attention spans of fans and the vinyl-defined parameters of ...
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Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

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A 'back to basics' approach is a well known trick of the record trade: a band becomes famous, its music familiar, so it ducks ...
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Album Review: Dread Zeppelin, "Un-Led-Ed"

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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: Skyclad "Jonah's Ark"

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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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Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

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Radiohead get round their songwriting poverty by developing initially startling soundscapes that simply dont belong on a rock record....
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Best Japanese Song: Electric Eel Shock "Rock & Roll Can Rescue the World"

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With its rigorously drilled "idol" groups, "cute" tone-deaf singers, rampant cross-media marketing, and questionable m...
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Live Review: The Manic Street Preachers, Cliff's Pavilion, Southend, 7th July, 1993

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Young, bubbly, gushing English girls flit around in diaphanous dresses, excited beyond their pristine innocence: I must be in a Ken Rus...
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Album Review: Nirvana, "In Utero"

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To their credit, Nirvana haven't bothered trying to create Nevermind II . Although, to be blunt, In Utero lacks the sheer explosive,...
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Preview: Kula Shaker, Japan 2008

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Rock is supposed to be about freedom and expression, but over the years it has become increasingly subject to a creeping campaign of pol...
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Album Review: The Wildhearts, "P.h.u.q."

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The mongrels of Brit rock due to their scatty diversity. Whether it be punk, metal, pop, rock, it's all evident here along with the bar...
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