Latest articles by Alex Burrows
Jeff Wayne didn’t just fight Martians – he sold you the 80s via his TV music
Beyond The War Of The Worlds he filled you with Eastern promise, put a tiger in your tank, gave you a World Of Sport and more
“There certainly was a fair amount of hard drinking. But there was a degree of professionalism, if hard to recognise at times”: How The Pogues made a folk-punk classic in Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash remains the late Shane MacGowan’s finest moment
The albums produced by Mutt Lange you should definitely listen to
The best albums from producer Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange, unparalleled audio perfectionist and man with the Midas touch, whose sonics sent the careers of AC/DC and Def Leppard soaring
“Fighting Martians is a lifestyle for me”: Jeff Wayne on waging the War Of The Worlds
Composer of prog’s greatest conceptual album – among many, many overshadowed works – recalls cutting the invaders’ language in half, casting Phil Lynott as a vicar and scraping his wife’s best pots for a tension-building sound effect
"Ploughing a uniquely distinctive furrow for over 40 years": New Model Army's Unbroken is timeless, ireful and poetic
Unbroken is album number 16 from enduring British punk/folk/rock mainstays New Model Army
"Its release was welcomed with as much enthusiasm by Californian punks as if a Nazi had yakked on Darby Crash’s grave." How Bad Religion took a prog detour with Into The Unknown
How hardcore heroes Bad Religion recorded a prog album mid career!
Pogues singer Shane MacGowan has died aged 65
Shane MacGowan, bandleader of iconic punk group The Pogues, has died aged 65, his wife confirms
A beginner's guide to '80s goth in five essential albums
Release the bats! Your essential guide to the best of '80s goth
Every Mudhoney album ranked from worst to best
The collected works of grunge's definitive band, analysed and arranged in order of merit
The 10 greatest ska-punk albums ever, ranked from worst to best
Pick it up! Pick it up! No, really, pick up any of these ska-punk stormers and you're in for a treat
Senseless Things: The First Of Too Many album review
Expanded version of the debut album from underrated second-gen UK pop-punk from The Senseless Things
Jello Biafra's 10 finest post-Dead Kennedys albums, ranked worst to best
After Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra was never going to exit the music business quietly: here's our definitive guide to his very best post-DKs output
Dead Kennedys's debut: still satirical, still subversive, now with extra shine
The Dead Kennedys' hardcore punk classic Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables has been sonically retooled for a new generation
The Kevin Shirley albums you should definitely own
The in-demand, classic rock-loving South African Kevin Shirley is arguably the 21st century’s leading rock music producer
The Siouxsie And The Banshees albums you should definitely own
From punk and post-punk via psychedelia, avant and art-rock, these are the best Siouxsie And The Banshees albums
Dinosaur Jr: Seventytwohundredseconds of glorious discharge teetering on the brink of chaos
What the world needs now is a vinyl-only release of rare 1993 live MTV set from gr**ge pioneers Dinosaur Jr
Every Public Enemy album ranked from worst to best
Bringing the noise since 1985, Public Enemy revolutionised hip-hop with their radical vision. Here's the Long Island, New York group's catalogue rated and ranked
"I love The Exploited!" Altered Images’ Clare Grogan on how punk rock changed her life
You might know Altered Images from their cutesy '80's pop hits I Could Be Happy and Happy Birthday, but the Glasgow band have their roots in punk rock, as vocalist Clare Grogan explains
His Lordship: volatile punk’n’roll with amphetamine-eyed grunt
Post-pandemic rock’n’roll is alive and scorching, thanks to His Lordship's debut EP All Cranked Up
Every Bad Religion album ranked from worst to best
Still burning brightly more than four decades into their career, Bad Religion remain one of US punk's most respected bands. Which isn't to say that everything they've recorded is golden
Bad Religion's Brian Baker: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
Punk rock lifer Brian Baker (Bad Religion/Minor Threat/Dag Nasty/Samhain and more) chooses his platters than matter
Every The Pogues album ranked from worst to best
With seven albums released across an 11-year recording career, Shane MacGowan's London-Irish folk-punks The Pogues worked and played hard. But which album is their crowning glory?
