Latest articles by David McLaughlin
Word Gets Around found Kelly Jones shining a light on a community filled with both characters and character
Helmet's Meantime is still shaping modern metal, 34 years after its release
Upon its release in 1998, Massive Attack's third album Mezzanine sounded like nothing that had come before. It still does
How the writings of a courageous German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim inspired one of the great cult albums of the '90s
Buying guide Post-Kyuss, Josh Homme embarked on a mission to create rock music “heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls”: here are QOTSA's eight albums in order of greatness
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa
It's fair to say that Radiohead have a complicated relationship with their debut single
Seattle was the home of grunge, but 90s emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate offered something grander.
Buying guide Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano's punk-noir 10-album strong catalogue rated and ranked
Brian Fallon's band The Gaslight Anthem sang of dreams, escape, love and the endless quest for new possibilities, and charmed the world
The Gaslight Anthem's sepia-tinged masterpiece The '59 Sound turns 15: “I was a firm believer in the magic of things,” says Brian Fallon
One of the most innovative and fearless British rock bands ever, Enter Shikari have released seven studio albums since 2007: we sort out the so-so from the sensational
The unique, incomparable catalogue of Iceland's biggest band re-reviewed and ranked
Inside Radiohead's OK Computer: darkness, isolation, paranoia, and songs so far ahead of their time that the world is still catching up
The story of Chicago's Touch and Go Records in five essential albums
Buying guide SST became America's definitive underground rock label: here's the story of how it happened, via five essential records, from Black Flag to Soundgarden
Jarvis Cocker and co. are national treasures, but which album is their crowning glory?
Minor Threat knew they were falling apart as they recorded their debut album: that helps explain why, 40 years after its release, Out Of Step sounds as vital, urgent and furiously fucked-off as it did in 1983
A cult hit upon its release on March 10, 1998, Far's Water & Solutions stands as one of the most revered and essential post-hardcore albums of all time
