Music Reviews

R.E.M - Green 25th Anniversary Edition

R.E.M - Green 25th Anniversary Edition

The Georgians' major-label debut - even more thrilling and subversive a quarter of a century on...

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kaya Deluxe Edition

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kaya Deluxe Edition

Remastered 35th anniversary of laid-back classic...

Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Life is finally sweeter for Paris’ all-conquering indie favourites...

Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Lysergic landmark gets stereo/mono remaster treatment...

The Flaming Lips - The Terror

The Flaming Lips - The Terror

Sonic brutality and lashings of existential dread!

Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze

Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze

Slackest man in Philadelphia reformats psych-rock for widescreen viewing...

Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information/Wings Of Love

Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information/Wings Of Love

The lost prog-soul classic rereleased, with three decades of newly unearthed demos...

Eric Burdon - 'Til Your River Runs Dry

Eric Burdon - 'Til Your River Runs Dry

A revitalised Burdon tells survivor’s tales...

The Breeders - Last Splash: LSXX

The Breeders - Last Splash: LSXX

Big Deal: The Breeders’ best LP reissued as a seven-disc vinyl/3CD boxset on its 20th...

Iron And Wine - Ghost On Ghost

Iron And Wine - Ghost On Ghost

The latest chapter in the singer-songwriter’s evolution is a work of immense beauty and scale...

Iggy And The Stooges - Ready To Die

Iggy And The Stooges - Ready To Die

Ig coaxes James Williamson out for a victory lap...

Morrissey - Kill Uncle

Morrissey - Kill Uncle

Morrissey’s partial rewriting of his past proves grimly successful...

The Graham Bond Organisation - Wade In The Water: Classics, Origins & Oddities

The Graham Bond Organisation - Wade In The Water: Classics, Origins & Oddities

A wizard, a true star...

Crime And The City Solution - American Twilight

Crime And The City Solution - American Twilight

First new material in 20 years from celebrated post-punk doomsayers...

Edwyn Collins - Understated

Edwyn Collins - Understated

Less is infinitely more for the man who invented indie...

Low - The Invisible Way

Low - The Invisible Way

More raw beauty from the Duluth veterans, heightened by lashings of piano and Jeff Tweedy...

Suede - Bloodsports

Suede - Bloodsports

Not quite a return to their storming, Britpop peak – but the signs are encouraging...

Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection

Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection

“Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell.” Classic BOC, boxed...

Chelsea Light Moving - Chelsea Light Moving

Chelsea Light Moving - Chelsea Light Moving

Rock’s poet-noise iconoclast debuts new underground supergroup...

Duane Allman - Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

Duane Allman - Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

The charismatic slide guitar god and Southern rock avatar finally gets his due via a massive...

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Editor's Letter

Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...