Posted Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:14am PDT
Thirty-five years ago, David Bowie decided to kill off Ziggy Stardust, his alter ego and his greatest glam-rock creation. This excerpt from Barney Hoskyns' 1998 book Glam! explains why.
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Posted Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:59pm PDT
As the world waits – apparently in vain – for the grand Axl Rose folly that is Chinese Democracy , we time-travel back to the early daze of Guns n'Roses in this excerpt from Sylvie Simmons' classic 1987 encounter with the band.
Posted Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:29pm PDT
With I, Flathead Ry Cooder completes the trilogy of records about 1950s/60s California that began with Chavez Ravine and continued with My Name Is Buddy. Complete with his own superb 53-page novella, the album explores a lost world of pedal steel gui
Posted Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:33pm PDT
The doomed bard of upper-class Britfolk, Nick Drake would have been 60 on June 19. His tragic death in 1974 has only made his scant recorded output the more hauntingly precious.
Posted Mon Jun 9, 2008 1:54pm PDT
The acclaimed and eclectic new album by Paul Weller affords us the chance to revisit the Jam's back pages in this amusingly Americophobic Creem interview from March 1981.
Posted Tue Jun 3, 2008 6:26pm PDT
The death of Bo Diddley robs the world of one of the most eccentric practitioners of rhythm 'n' rock 'n' blues ever to have donned a box-shaped guitar. The great NME writer Charles Shaar Murray wrote this splendid retrospective in early 1975.
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