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Dorian Lynskey discusses success and songwriting with Doves' Jimi Goodwin (Rock's Backpages audio, 2002)
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Features and interviews
Ian Dove grabs a chat with a visiting Marvin Gaye (New Musical Express, 1964)
Valerie Wilmer elicits the thoughts of the Beatles' John Lennon (Hit Parader, 1965)
David Griffiths catches up with Leapy Lee (Record Mirror, 1969)
Royston Eldridge meets the J. Geils Band (Sounds, 1971)
John Abbey keeps on truckin' with Eddie Kendricks (Blues & Soul, 1973)
Richard Harrington hears about Gram Parsons and more from Emmylou Harris (Crawdaddy!, 1975)
Barbara Charone hangs out with Rod Stewart in Copenhagen (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Tim Lott talks to Tubeway Army's Gary Numan (Record Mirror, 1979)
Mark Ellen meets Tenpole Tudor's Edward (Smash Hits, 1981)
Bill Black meets head Waterboy Mike Scott (Sounds, 1983)
Rob Tannenbaum in conversation with Chicano rockers Los Lobos (Musician, 1985)
John Aizlewood befriends Floridian dance-pop star Donna Allen (No. 1, 1987)
Steve Bloom meets Soul II Soul mainman Jazzie B (Rolling Stone, 1989)
Richard Cromelin announces the return of folk-blues legend Judy Henske (Los Angeles Times, 1990)
Bill DeMain talks about Under the Pink with Tori Amos (Performing Songwriter, 1994)
Larry Jaffee discusses Bob Dylan with Al Kooper (On the Tracks, 1995)
Max Bell meets Marilyn Manson (The Evening Standard, 1998)
Michael Goldberg discusses songwriting and the rock-star life with "Riot Women" Sleater-Kinney (Addicted To Noise, 2000)
Geoffrey Himes hears from grieving country singer Dale Watson (Country Music, 2002)
Siân Pattenden reports on Chris de Burgh's upcoming appearance in Tehran (The Guardian, 2007)
Scott McLennan meets the older and wiser Kings Of Leon (Rip It Up (Australia), 2008)
Ian Winwood bemoans Green Day's getting into bed with Rupert Murdoch (The Guardian, 2009)
Caitlin Moran hymns the "Madonna of the 21st century" that is Lady Gaga (The Times, 2010)
Bob Ruggiero looks back with Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty (Houston Press, 2016)
Mitchell Cohen revisits the gloomy magnificence of the Walker Brothers (Music Aficionado, 2019)
Del Cowie converses with rising R&B star Savannah Ré (Complex, 2020)
Craig McLean looks back at 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' with Bonnie Tyler (Daily Telegraph, 2023)
Dorian Lynskey on the songs that encapsulate 14 years of Tory misrule (The Guardian, 2024)
Album & Live Reviews
The Maker is stimulated by the self-explanatory This is The Ivy League (Melody Maker, 1965)
Pete Johnson catches Traffic's L.A. debut at the Shrine (Los Angeles Times, 1968)
Peter Jones reviews Van Der Graaf Generator's H To He, Who Am The Only One (Record Mirror, 1970)
Rosalind Russell witnesses the Grateful Dead's London debut at Wembley's Empire Pool (Disc, 1972)
Alan Niester reviews the Average White Band's Show Your Hand (Rolling Stone, 1974)
Stephen Demorest reviews support act Derringer and headliners Aerosmith, live at Madison Square Garden (New York Daily News, 1976)
John Swenson checks out the Jacksons' Goin' Places (Circus, 1978)
Mark Cooper catches the Jam, live at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre (Record Mirror, 1980)
Dave Rimmer inspects Brit funksters Light Of The World's Check Us Out (Kicks, 1982)
Eleanor Levy sees Spandau Ballet, live at Wembley Arena (Record Mirror, 1984)
Jim Farber listens to Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' Good Music (Rolling Stone, 1986)
David Sinclair sees George Michael, live at London's Earl's Court (The Times, 1988)
Bob Stanley sticks up for the Hit Parade's More Pop Songs (Melody Maker, 1991)
Sara Scribner strolls down Pavement's Westing (By Musket And Sextant) (L.A. Weekly, 1993)
Dele Fadele ponders the meaning of Simply Red's Life (New Musical Express, 1995)
Ann Powers is somewhat sceptical about Gillian Welch's Revival (Rolling Stone, 1996)
David Sinclair sees support act Elliott Smith and headliners Sebadoh, live at London's Astoria (The Times, 1999)
Rob Tannenbaum reviews Drive-By Truckers' Dirty South album (Blender, 2004)
Simon Reynolds places a bet on Lethal Bizzle's Against All Oddz (Observer Music Monthly, 2005)
Ben Thompson howls along to the eponymous Wolfmother (The Guardian, 2006)
Stewart Smith sees the Ex concert film And So Say All Of Us (The Wire, 2015)
Andy Gill considers the career coda that is David Bowie's posthumous No Plan EP (The Independent, 2017)
Andy Gill ascends to the sound of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (The Independent, 2017)
Ned Raggett gazes on the images in Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn (The Quietus, 2021)
Alan Light is pleasantly astonished by Taylor Swift's Midnights (Esquire, 2022)
Chris Charlesworth reviews Bernard MacMahon's documentary film Becoming Led Zeppelin (Just Backdated, 2025)
