David Stubbs

David Stubbs

David Stubbs is a music, film, TV and football journalist. He has written for The Guardian, NME, The Wire and Uncut, and has written books on Jimi Hendrix, Eminem, Electronic Music and the footballer Charlie Nicholas.

Articles by: David Stubbs

Swerverdriver: 99th Dream cover art

"States of epic rock grace, bubbling and oozing with beauty": Swervedriver's 99th Dream emits clouds of psychedelia at every turn

By David Stubbs published

Three CD/double vinyl reissue of guitarscape specialists Swervedriver's 'lost' 1998 album 99th Dream, featuring concert and studio outtakes

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"In a year in which both pop and rock found themselves in a sort of hiatus, Hounds Of Love represented a standout achievement:" Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love (Baskerville Edition)

By David Stubbs published

A reissue of Kate Bush's 1985 album Hounds Of Love with new artwork, illustrations, and solar-powered flashing LEDs

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Captain Beefheart's Clear Spot: a slick storm of blues, boogie, poetry, avant-garde jazz, space-rock, feminism, soul and zig-zag wandering

By David Stubbs published

Two-disc clear-vinyl 50th-anniversary reissue of Captain's Beefheart and the Magic Band's Clear Spot, now with tasty extras icing the cake

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Rise by The Rasmus is not the fightback album against covid you were looking for

By David Stubbs published

The jarring Rise is the tenth album from metallic Finnish Eurovision also-rans The Rasmus

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Pink Floyd - Reissues album review

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Latest in chronologically ordered vinyl reissues of early Floyd.

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Pink Floyd - The Early Years 1965-72 album review

By David Stubbs last updated

Seven-volume box set including DVDs, Blu-rays, vinyl and memorabilia

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Pink Floyd - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs/Delicate Sound... album review

By David Stubbs last updated

Vinyl reissues of 1981 compilation and 1988 live album

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Pink Floyd's reworked A Momentary Lapse Of Reason fails to fly

By David Stubbs last updated

The remixed version of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse Of Reason from the 2019 The Later Years box set released in 360 reality audio

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Review: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are back and it sure feels good

By David Stubbs last updated

Unlimited Love is Red Hot Chili Peppers' first album in six years, with much-loved guitarist John Frusciante back for a third stint

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Frank Black & The Catholics: an ever-evolving post-Pixie career, collected

By David Stubbs published

Out now: A box set of six albums (three new to vinyl) by Black Francis’s post-Pixies project

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Crobot's Feel This is an energetic celebration of straight-up, fat-free riffery

By David Stubbs published

Feel This, the fourth album from Pennsylvania hard rockers Crobot, gives the hairdryer treatment to life’s vicissitudes

Jade Warrior: Released cover art

Jade Warrior's second album is visionary, pan-ethnic, and worthy of restoration

By David Stubbs published

Half a century on, British prog rockers Jade's second album Released and been re-released

Frank Zappa & The Mothers: The Mothers 1971 cover art

The Mothers 1971 will test the patience of Zappa completists, but there are highlights

By David Stubbs published

Exhaustive, eight-disc collection of Frank Zappa & The Mothers's 1971 recordings, including infamous Rainbow gig

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Sunn O))) sustain their black arts on session album Metta, Benevolence

By David Stubbs published

Live from the BBC: The Metta, Benevolence studio sessions by avant-metallurgists Sunn O))) develops on their previous album recordings

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The Band's Cahoots successfully reheated for its 50th birthday

By David Stubbs published

Box-set reissue of The Band’s 1971 album Cahoots, with alternative mixes, bootleg concert, Blu-ray audio disc

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Dream Theater exhaust their armoury on A View From The Top Of The World

By David Stubbs published

A View From The Top Of The World is the 15th studio album by veteran prog metallurgists Dream Theater

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David Crosby's If Only I Could Remember My Name: still triumphant, 50 years on

By David Stubbs published

2-CD reissue of David Crosby's 1971 debut solo album If Only I Could Remember My Name featuring bonus out-takes, extra tracks, alternative versions

The Who: The Who Sell Out

The Who Sell Out: newly expanded and now a veritable capsule in pop/rock time

By David Stubbs published

This Super Deluxe Edition of The Who Sell Out is a 5-Disc set of The Who's 1967 album with unreleased tracks, Townshend demos and other goodies

Dumpstaphunk: Dumpstaphunk: Where Do We Go From Here

Dumpstaphunk's Where Do We Go From Here is determined and timely

By David Stubbs published

Dumpstaphunk's Where Do We Go From Here funks up a storm for this New Orleans offspring of the Neville Brothers and The Meters

Osibisa: New Dawn

Osibisa's New Dawn is pleasurable, infectious and colourised

By David Stubbs published

Afro-rockers Osibisa are still with us after 50 years, and New Dawn shows them still rejuvenating

Kitten Pyramid - Koozy!!

Kitten Pyramid's Koozy!! finds beauty in the gradual pain of human existence

By David Stubbs published

Kitten Pyramid's Koozy!! is excellent Brit neo-psychedelia underpinned by COVID sadness

Edgar Broughton Band: Speak Down The Wires - The Recordings 1975-1982

Raunch and social consciousness meet on Edgar Broughton Band's Speak Down The Wires

By David Stubbs published

Speak Down The Wires: The Recordings 1975-1982 is a useful compilation of four albums by hardy veteran Midlands rockers Edgar Broughton Band

100 greatest songs of the 21st century

The 100 greatest rock songs of the century... so far

By Malcolm Dome, Paul Elliott, Dave Everley, Polly Glass, Dom Lawson, Fraser Lewry, Dave Ling, Sian Llewellyn, Luke Morton, Paul Rees, Johnny Sparks, Philip Wilding, David Stubbs, Henry Yates published

Many were longlisted, but this is the final selection – the best rock songs of the 21st century thus far, as voted for by you

Professor And The Madman

Punk veterans serve judgment on mankind on Professor And The Madman's Seance

By David Stubbs published

Professor And The Madman's concept album Seance features former Damned rhythm section

Buzzcocks: Sell You Everything (1991-2004)

Buzzcocks: Sell You Everything (1991-2004) - the definitive compendium of the other years

By David Stubbs published

Buzzcocks sell you everything on eight-CD compilation of Mancunian (post) punksters second wave of recording life