CHEAPTHRILLS

Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills (1968) isn't just one of the great live albums; it's one of the great aural artifacts of psychedelic Psan Phransysco, period. One of the few writers who got close to the band's legendary singer Jani More »

Former trip-hop wunderkind Tricky's new album draws on his memories of the tough Bristol neighborhood where he was raised. In this early Melody Maker interview, conducted on the eve of 1994's seminal Maxinquaye, he talks of the impact Knowle West had More »

BRUCESPRINGSTEENONTOUR

Rod Tootell asks how well-served the Boss has been by his official concert recordings – and nominates his Top 20 live tracks (legal or otherwise). More »

BYrdSlegacy

In 1968, LA's Byrds – with key new member Gram Parsons – flew to Nashville to record what most would deem to be the first true country-rock album. Exactly 40 years since the US release of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo , we celebrate a landmark recordin More »

PRIMAL SCREAM

Primal Scream release their ninth studio album Beautiful Future later this month. Their extraordinary self-reinvention as rave 'n' roll techno-gospel hybridizers began 17 years ago with "Loaded" and "Come Together," and The Observer's More »

randynewman

If a new Randy Newman album is always a cause for celebration, the release of his splendid new Harps and Angels is also a perfect excuse to look back on the halcyon days of 12 Songs and Sail Away. More »

beck

The return of Beck with the new Modern Guilt sends us back to the skinny wunderkind's arrival on the LA scene 14 years ago, when Gerrie Lim quizzed the "slacker Dylan" as "Loser" burst on to a post-grunge world in early '94. We excerpt More »

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