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Live Review: Monster Magnet, Koko's London, 25th November, 2011
The atmosphere is positively jovial tonight; I keep bumping into smiling strangers saying 'hallo!' a lot. How lovely. This kind of ...
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Album Review, Aerosmith, "Get A Grip"
Three songs in this album don't look too promising. Good by most bands' standards, average by Aerosmith's, despite their distinc...
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Revenge Recommends: "Premonition" by Simple Minds
1979 was a pivotal year in British history. Margaret Thatcher had just been voted in over a fractured Labour Party and the deindustrailizat...
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Album Review: Big Country "Buffalo Skinners"
This album is like one of those Westerns where the homestead has been burned down, the womenfolk raped and murdered, and the cattle dri...
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Live Video: Esie at Shibuya Milkyway, Tokyo
Electro-punk diva Esie at Milkyway Shibuya on the 4th of June, 2011. This was Volume VIII of the Saiko live music showcase run by Dan Grune...
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Revenge Recommends: "Destroyer of the Universe" by Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth are a legendary Swedish melodic death metal band whose lyrics, sung in a guttural death grunt by giant frontman Johan Hegg, foc...
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Album Review, Soundgarden, "Badmotorfinger"
Seattle's premier sub-poppers go one step beyond Louder Than Love with an album that is sure to elevate them higher and open up a wider...
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Album Review, Lita Ford, "Dangerous Curves"
After an absence of almost two years raunchy Rock Goddess LITA FORD returns with this, her third solo album since departing the ranks of gir...
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Preview: Children of Bodom
Death metal band with some unlikely covers Taking their moniker from the lakeside location of an infamous murder in their native Finland, i...
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Live Review: Michael Monroe, Town & Country, 22nd February, 1990
SAX PARTY Will the real Mike Monroe please stand up? At most gigs in London you can be sure of finding one pouting peroxide Wannabe b...
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Album Review: Air "10,000 Hz Legend"
Music originally started as sound representation of visual reality. Approaching Air's new album, 10,000 Hz Legend in these terms...
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Revenge Recommends: "Take Me To The Otherside" by Mechanical Smile
The valley of the River Irvine in central Ayrshire is a minor hotbed of rock talent, having already produced World-beaters Biffy Clyro. Th...
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Interview: Julianne Regan, All About Eve
FAITH HEALERS ALL ABOUT EVE recently completed a short British tour to promote their new album, Touched By Jesus , and their 'new appr...
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Photo: Mike McColgan, Street Dogs
The original singer of the Dropkick Murphys, Mike McColgan on stage at Liquid Room, Tokyo, with his new band The Street Dogs. Like the ...
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Live Review: Michie Koyama,Saitama Bunka Centre, 16th Oct, 2011
I guess it's the T-shirt factor. When an audience shows up dressed in baggy shorts, flip flops and other attire more suited for a day a...
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Album Review, Genesis, "We Can't Dance"
Well, this has been the year of the big releases hasn't it? I mean VAN HALEN were busy F.U.C.K.ing around while METALLICA went black...
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Riff Raff II
The second issue of Riff Raff hit the newstands in January 1990 with Jon Bon Jovi on the cover. Editorial was by Mark Crampton, Mark Liddel...
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Live Video: Cathedral at Quattro Shibuya, Tokyo
Cathedral live at Quattro Shibuya on the 20th of April, 2011. Live Report . Video: C.B.Liddell
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Preview: Ringing World
RINGING WORLD are a Scottish band based in London. The four-piece are fronted by singer/ guitarist Robert Farrell. They are attracting maj...
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Album Review, Lou Reed & Metallica, "Lulu"
Not bad just different, so the mantra goes, but basically Lulu sounds like Metallica wanting to emulate The Who, Pink Floyd, and other soph...
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Revenge Recommends: "Being A Dickhead's Cool" by The Grand Spectacular
This witty song is by the obscure outfit, The Grand Spectacular. Not much is known about them except that they possibly come from Cambri...
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Interview: Alice Cooper
Social Stoopidity You'd think dragging Alice Cooper out of rehearsals in order to obtain an interview would be a dodgy move, ...
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Video Review: AC/DC, "Clipped"
Ah...and now for a little pre-Donington taster. It's the loudest rock n' roll band on the planet (Heavy Metal!? My dog's ass...
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Interview: Iggy Pop
Iggy's inner artist The heroin addiction, the public self-flagellation and penis-baring, the rumors of bisexuality...these are...
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Revenge Recommends: "Shipping Steel" by Cold Chisel
Shipping Steel is a classic track by Australian hard rockers Cold Chisel from their 1979 album Breakfast at Sweethearts . The song is a pe...
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Photo: Billy Duffy, The Cult
Guitar hero and David Beckham lookalike Billy Duffy of the Cult in action at Studio Coast, Tokyo, 14th of May, 2010. Colin Liddell Re...
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Live Review: Bruce Dickinson, The Hummingbird, Birmingham, June 26th, 1990
This gig was almost a 'maiden over,' to use a cricketing term. The audience made it clear they were there for Bruce Dickinson, and ...
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Revenge Recommends: "Grendel" by Marillion
The best progressive rock bands can hardly lie content with simple subject matter. Their musical dexterity and munificence require m...
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Come As You Are
Cobain, Nihilism, Nirvana In his amusingly-titled article Smells Like Dead Junkie , Jim Goad, an iconoclastic icon if ever there was one, ...
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Album Review, Simple Minds, "Graffiti Soul"
This is the sound of the New Wave rock legends emerging from the shadows with a re-energized and sparkling cluster of sophisticated rock, pl...
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Album Review: Journey, "Eclipse"
With the belated success of Don't Stop Believing , Arnel Pineda is always going to be fighting an uphill battle to step out of Steve Pe...
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Revenge Recommends: "I'll Bite Your Face Off" by Alice Cooper
One of the tracks from Alice Cooper's new album Welcome 2 My Nightmare . This has a skanky, Rolling Stones feel, and plays on the peren...
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Tapescript Interview: Adam Levine, Maroon 5
On the 12th of January 2008, I did a 20-minute 'phoner' with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. This was for an article I was writing f...
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Live Review: Blind Melon, Milton Keynes Bowl, 29th May, 1993
I like Blind Melon. Their debut album isn't so much about distinctive songs. It's more about a free-flowing vibe; a superior sort o...
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Video Review: AC/DC, "Live at River Plate"
When you're AC/DC, making a new studio album is not something you take lightly. You just know it's gonna be massive all round t...
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Preview: The Who, Japan, 2008
It's surprising. Japan is a country that loves rock legends, but for the Who – a group often mentioned in the same breath as the ...
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Album Review: Baby Animals, "Baby Animals"
"Fame is notorious for causing stress." So the lyric goes on Rush You , the opening blast on BABY ANIMALS’ self-titled debut albu...
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