A rundown of monster tracks that kept the floors scuffed at Metro, Fifth Avenue and Club Ifor Bach...
Since forming fifteen years ago, The Decemberists have risen from underground cult favourites to enjoy international mainstream success. On the release of their seventh studio album (What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World), singer/songwriter/guitarist Colin Meloy explains to Jon Wilde how his band created an instant American classic.
Under 21 and looking for a new band to get you buzzing about music again? Look no further than these great punk stalwarts...
An interview in a hazy west London hotel room with the man himself proved that the legend of Gil Scott-Heron will always live on...
Two decades since its release, does the Stone Roses much maligned LP sound like a dismal mess of guitar and overdubs, or a decent collection of songs damned by time?
This could be in the top 1% of videos on the internet...
"Barlow can see the three of them, walking down a beach in black and white to almost all the songs"
And it worked...
The "most sophisticated drug baron of all time" talks us through his 50 favourite songs, featuring The Clash and Rihanna.
Duke Vin & The Birth Of Ska is an ace new documentary that explains how one man’s fierce passion for Jamaican music helped bring ska to the masses. We talked to the director about Duke, ska and the West London scene...
They've sold millions of records but cop endless shite on social media. Here's a handful of guys that really aren'...
Hip-hop Nicki? Feminist Nicki? Cartoon Nicki? Her overlong new record suggests she hasn't quite decided who she wa...
It's the Saturday before Christmas, of course you feel like shit. Sit down, read this, do what he says and feel be...
From Sam Smith asking you to drink his milk to Katy Perry's dick.
How do you possibly follow It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back? Might as well just make a better album...
Wish I was a gnome for Christmas.
Eleven. Thousand. Pounds.
From quirky regulars to wisened store clerks and part-time jobs paid in vinyl. How Beatdown Records started my love affair with records…
Meet the Slash of West Africa...
Bringing up the rear of the Xmas round-ups, here's the choices of our righteous scribes on their top records of 201...
Turns out Wu Tang aren't only for the kids
The Queen Is Dead might be the populist choice, but for me this ragbag collection of singles and B-sides is a perfe...
Asked to name a pivotal song from each of his 22 years, the soul man from NW came back with a list drenched in, wel...
Legendary record producer and manager of The Rolling Stones talks music, the 60s, and the internet...
He's been absolutely everywhere again since his Daft Punk success last year, but how much do you really know about the Chic man?
You thought Space Oddity was out there? Wait until you get a load of The Laughing Gnome...
It's a quarter of a century since its release, and that time has done nothing to dampen the album's raw, eclectic power...
One of the finest talents of modern music, Leonard Cohen has enjoyed something of a resurgence in later life. I got...
There are only so many mushy power ballads you can take and sometimes you just want to listen to a man digging his ...
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Now's the time you should get into the world's most difficult band.
One of the most famous and resonant names in the music industry, Marshall Chess has a Zelig-like knack for being in the right place at exactly the right time. Here he reels back through his rampantly incident-packed past in this rare, exclusive and definitive interview with Jon Wilde.
Disclaimer: None of this is in the slightest bit true...
We thought there was enough for another list, so here it is...
They might not have been in double figures when Is This It dropped, but four boys from Bristol are harking back to ...
"It's gonna take time, a whole lotta precious time..."
The legendary snapper opens his suitcase of stories about Bowie, Iggy, Lou Reed, Kate Moss, Andy Warhol, Snoop and ...
We're not quite done with 2014 yet, but it'll take a lot to knock this lot off their perch
Every now and again we like to remind ourselves of this.
Never crack one of your back teeth again.
One fan's overdue love letter to the only comic to school its readers in Yiddish...
If you want to be THAT guy at the 5-a-side, here's how.
A new documentary about the Clash frontman hits screens this month. Here's why y...
Yep, just 'balls' now.
Guns + Bacon = Internet
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Hammond and Clarkson are at it in the back of a Renault Twingo and the Stig reve...
John Inverdale has since apologised for his use of the word 'cunted' on the BBC'...
It's getting so bad authorities banned football completely in February.
Get your tissues, lads - we're going cryin'.
Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah, disco's chief raconteur sits down for a chat about Daft ...
"Living on is a prayer"
"I don’t masturbate over leaked sex tapes on moral grounds but I really think ...
Football needed something to make it choke on its prawn sandwiches.
Their new album is fat with tunes, but here's why one of their band members reck...
It started with a growl...
Big news, Pitbull, Tom Cruise, Mumbai
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