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LOUREEDberlin
For years, Lou Reed's third solo album – the follow-up to his Bowie-produced Transformer – split critics down the middle. You either loathed its bleakly suicidal scenarios or you wallowed in them. Nick Kent set the tone for the latter camp with h More »
PORTISHEAD
Few acts in the last two decades have been as influential as Portishead, whose debut album Dummy virtually invented the genre dubbed "trip-hop." In the month the group returns after 12 years of silence with Third, we look back at their arrival on the More »
AIRmoonsafari
It was a decade ago that Air made French electro-pop the epitome of Hip with the classic Moon Safari. This was how I heard the album at the time. More »
LOVEFOREVERCHANGEScollectors
Veterans of the psychedelic era often proclaim Forever Changes to be the greatest album ever made. Love's 1967 masterpiece is as unsettling as it is beautiful, using strings and acoustic guitars to paint strange pictures of hippie life in LA. Newly r More »
SANDYDENNY
It's three decades since the world lost Sandy Denny, a singer and writer of majestic songs that transcend their folk roots. In tribute we offer this excerpt from "Angel of Avalon," Jim Irvin's magnificent MOJO retrospective on the former Fairport Con More »
ROLLINGSTONES1971
To coincide with the release of Martin Scorsese's Stones film Shine a Light, RBP presents Robert Greenfield's fly-on-the-wall Rolling Stone account of life on the road with the band in 1971 – complete with a supporting cast that includes Anita Pall More »
LEMONHEADSDELUXE
The deluxe-edition reissue of the classic It's A Shame About Ray affords us an opportunity to revisit the album's reception in the pages of Melody Maker, as published on 26 June 1992. More »
REM
The release of R.E.M.'s new album Accelerate – a genuine return to form at last – affords us a nice excuse to revisit a fascinating early interview with Michael Stipe, giving the lowdown on the band's origins and formation in Athens, Georgia. The More »
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