‘Even worse than Lou Reed. . .’
Paul Simonon: "Bob Dylan used to come to a lot of Clash shows"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: London O2 Arena, June 17, 2013
The 22nd Uncut Playlist Of 2013
The Eagles: upcoming world tour "very well could be our last"
Keith Richards: "All experiments come to an end."
The Best Of 2013: Halftime Report
Consider this the last in a short series of encounters with somewhat cantankerous sorts, following accounts in this space over the couple of weeks of meetings with Lou Reed and Gordon Lightfoot, both of which have stirred some passing interest and lively comment. Today’s subject is Van Morrison...
The quixotic songwriter, profiled in relentless close-up...
Polly Harvey shifts from the personal to the national...
Hard shell, soft centre: the Motörhead man laid bare in warts’n’all doc… well almost...
Big, back-to-roots comeback with T Bone Burnett supervising...
Out, hippies, out! Four CD set captures the righteous, blues-rocking anger of Warwickshire’s...
Goodbye heartache, hello fun – and the rich, warm vibes of ’70s soul...
Underground, overground: two subversive major label salvos from New York’s folk-punk-poets. Of...
Subversion, great tunes and swelling guitars: art-rock theorists return to the source material...
Uplifting, melodic sixth is the Portland, Oregon conceptualists’ most immediate work...
Self-raising sand! Staggering 16-disc time capsule, featuring 72 complete radio shows, all...
One lush masterpiece, and its inscrutable follow-up, reissued with extras...
Their final album, but a great introduction to a world of esoteric, hallucinatory music...
Their breakthrough: platinum-coated rock’n’roll...
Further far-out adventures in crate-digging exotica...
Dizzying third long-player from Dream Syndicate mainman’s main band...
The rise and fall of Brettpop, over two discs of singles, b-sides and album tracks...
Welsh songstress excels – with the help of Albert Hammond and The Roots...
Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys tracks his famous relation in Argentina...
