Music Reviews

Sugar - Copper Blue [reissue]

Sugar - Copper Blue [reissue]

Bob Mould at his belligerent best...

George Harrison - Early Takes Vol 1

George Harrison - Early Takes Vol 1

Quiet ones from the quiet one...

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air

Moving epitaph for The Blue Nile’s melancholic grace...

Paul McCartney - Ram [reissue]

Paul McCartney - Ram [reissue]

Historically fascinating post-Beatles mish-mash...

Willie Nelson - Heroes

Willie Nelson - Heroes

Sepia-toned friends-and-family set from the living legend...

Small Faces - Odgens' Nut Gone Flake: Deluxe Edition

Small Faces - Odgens' Nut Gone Flake: Deluxe Edition

Unique '60s classic remastered with added depth and bonus material...

Beach House - Bloom

Beach House - Bloom

The Baltimore duo stitches a blue velvet tapestry...

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

Uncle Barking! Essex Bard and Jeff Tweedy salute Woody Guthrie...

My Bloody Valentine - reissues

My Bloody Valentine - reissues

In their early years, it was easy to dismiss My Bloody Valentine as just...

Richard Hawley - Standing At Sky's Edge

Richard Hawley - Standing At Sky's Edge

As long as you’ve been briefed on Yorkshire local history, you know where you are with ...

Father John Misty - Fear Fun

Father John Misty - Fear Fun

Josh Tillman had had enough. Enough of Seattle, enough of his alter-ego J...

Public Image Limited - This Is PiL

Public Image Limited - This Is PiL

“I am John, and I was born in London!” The Lydon corporation re-opens for business...

Strange Fruit: The Beatles Apple Records

Strange Fruit: The Beatles Apple Records

Unearthing the rotten core of the Fab Four's infamous label...

Jerry Lee Lewis - A Whole Lotta Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis - A Whole Lotta Jerry Lee Lewis

Four-disc monument to the Killer, containing no filler...

T. Rex - Electric Warrior Deluxe Edition

T. Rex - Electric Warrior Deluxe Edition

Glamiversary! Bolan's seminal rocker remastered with B-sides, demos and outtakes...

M Ward - A Wasteland Companion

M Ward - A Wasteland Companion

She & Him's Him returns to his dark, witty furrow...

Jack White - Blunderbuss

Jack White - Blunderbuss

Love'll play some dirty tricks on ya. Jack White goes noirishly solo...

Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Spiritualized’s seventh album is a lavish and sentimental paean to rock’n’roll...

Simone Felice - Simone Felice

Simone Felice - Simone Felice

After undergoing emergency open-heart surgery in 2010, Simone Felice appears to...

Graham Coxon - A&E

Graham Coxon - A&E

Frantic riffs, motorik grooves and "perverse sounds" define Blur guitarists eighth solo album...

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Patti Smith, Levon Helm, Alabama Shakes, King Crimson, Jimmy Page and Neil Young in the new Uncut


Mick Ronson once fell asleep on me during an interview, the glam rock guitar god nodding off towards the end of what had become quite an emotional late night outburst on his part about how he had been betrayed by David Bowie after thanklessly contributing so much to Bowie’s success.

One...