Missing the first two support acts at this year's Japan Blues and Soul Carnival, I arrive at the Hibiya Open Air Concert Hall in ti...
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Interview: Adam Levine, Maroon 5
Levine: "Who is this Liddell bloke and why is he phoning me up in the middle of the night to ask me dumb questions?" Maroon 5 get...
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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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Tapescript Interview: Adam Levine, Maroon 5
On the 12th of January 2008, I did a 20-minute 'phoner' with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. This was for an article I was wri...
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Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
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, 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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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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Preview: Japan Blues & Soul Carnival 2010
Add a taste of rock and reggae to your blues Since starting in 1986 as Japan Blues Carnival , this annual event has brought the ...
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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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Art: Tribute to Amy Winehouse
Whatever her merits and demerits as a singer and a human being, Amy Winehouse was a truly iconic figure and will be sadly missed. Foll...
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