Latest articles by Emma Johnston
Dee Snider's For The Love Of Metal Live! is brash, bullish and maniacal
Dee Snider's soundtrack to single household lockdown back-garden festivals has arrived
Bush's The Kingdom: ambitious, confident, passionate
British radio-rock stalwarts Bush let their guard down on album number eight, The Kingdom
The World According To William DuVall: “Alice In Chains’ reincarnation was not out of the blue”
William DuVall looks back on his journey from punk brat to becoming the man who helped bring Alice In Chains back from the dead
Paradise Lost's Obsidian: turning bleakness into beauty
Power and beauty from Halifax’s finest Paradise Lost with 16th album Obsidian
Greg Dulli's Random Desire: a master class in mining the musical spectrum
Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli stretches his wings on debut solo album Random Desire
The Cadillac Three's Country Fuzz: drinkin', hell-raisin' and more drinkin'
Crack open a cold one and celebrate the Cadillac Three's fourth
PJ Harvey albums: your essential, chronological guide
PJ Harvey's albums have marked her out as a remarkable talent in British alternative music – here, we guide you through each of her albums in chronological order
Nick Cave's best albums: your essential, chronological guide
Over the last 40 years, Nick Cave's albums have marked him out as a singular talent in alternative music – here, we go through his most significant musical moments
The Holy Bible at 25: an anomaly, an education and a warning from history
As Manic Street Preachers' masterpiece The Holy Bible reaches 25, we look back on an album that opened the minds of a generation
How Rival Schools' United By Fate ushered post-hardcore into a new millennium
As United By Fate hits 18, we celebrate the coming of age of an album that got a whole new generation hooked on post-hardcore
Hollywood Vampires: Rise album review
California’s starriest hobby band, Hollywood Vampires, pull back the covers for their second album Rise
Sub Pop: The best albums
US label Sub Pop became the beating heart of grunge in the late 80s and 90s – and has adapted to live on into the 21st century. We look back at their best releases
Fantastic Negrito - Please Don’t Be Dead album review
Genre-mashing modern blues at its very best
The Amorettes - Born To Break album review
The Amorettes' fourth studio album Born To Break: Made in Scotland for the love of rock’n’roll
Tax The Heat - Change Your Position album review
Second album from the Bristol four-piece, with swagger the name of the game
The Glorious Sons - Young Beauties And Fools
Canadian rockers add a little glitter to their grit
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It album review
Sheffield experimentalists start to see the light
American Nightmare - American Nightmare album review
Boston hardcore crew return with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it third album
Great Collapse - Neither Washington Nor Moscow… Again! album review
A potent call to arms from the punk underground
Hot Snakes - Reissues album
Not yet ratedMuch-loved San Deigo posthardcore crew rifle through their back pages
Walking Papers - WP2 album review
Finely honed second album from Seattle supergroup takes on all of life’s emotions
Green Day - God’s Favourite Band album review
Concise career ‘best of’ collection from the kings of pop-punk
