The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You gets a lustrous respray for its 40th birthday By Kris Needs 22 October 2021 The Rolling Stones' first release since Charlie Watts’ departure spectacularly reboots the 1981 out-takes classic Tattoo You
Ronnie Wood pays spell-binding tribute to Jimmy Reed with the help of Mick Taylor By Kris Needs 18 September 2021 Jimmy Reed is the subject of the second of three tributes to Ronnie Wood’s musical heroes
Osibisa - New Dawn review By Kris Needs 23 April 2021 Not yet rated Veteran Afro-rock pioneers greet their sparkling next phase.
Steve Cropper's Fire It Up is timeless, spine-tingling and funky By Kris Needs 23 April 2021 Steve Cropper, legendary studio backbone of Stax Records, releases Fire It Up, his "first proper album" since 1967
Motorhead are a well-oiled machine on Louder Than Noise... Live In Berlin By Kris Needs 23 April 2021 Motorhead's Louder Than Noise... Live In Berlin is a multi-format audio-visual package, including a Motorhead passport
Can: a guide to their best albums By Kris Needs 08 April 2021 Can’s classic albums sound only like themselves, yet the band’s influence lives on. These are their best albums
On Assembly, Joe Strummer's untameable rock’n’roll spirit rears vividly back to life By Kris Needs 26 March 2021 Assembly is a post-Clash ‘greatest hits’ from Joe Strummer that heralds new Dark Horse label reissue deal
Siouxsie And The Banshees: the story of the band who band who saved punk from parody and invented goth By Kris Needs 02 March 2021 Siouxsie And The Banshees made incredible music and gave rock a true icon. The editor of Zigzag magazine at the time of their rise tells the band's story
Alice Cooper's Detroit Stories is his most concise bolt of precision-tooled heavy rock in 50 years By Kris Needs 26 February 2021 Fifty years since Love It To Death, Alice Cooper revisits his birth city and forges a late-life classic with Detroit Stories
Hollywood Undead's New Empire: Volume 2 is another chance to bedroom mosh By Kris Needs 04 December 2020 The seventh album from ever-masked LA rap-rockers successfully brings the bombast
Derek & The Dominos' Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs celebrates its 50th birthday - and what a party it is By Kris Needs 13 November 2020 Eric Clapton’s defining one-off supernova, Derek & The Dominos' Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs, gets a half-century vinyl upgrade
John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth gains a new sheen on the Ultimate Mixes By Kris Needs 09 October 2020 John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth is part of rock’s fabric, and here it gets a brand new lustre
Pretenders: Hate For Sale - Chrissie Hynde’s fire is undimmed By Kris Needs 17 July 2020 Still great Pretenders on 11th studio album Hate For Sale
Enuff Z'Nuff's Brainwashed Generation - a band flying high again By Kris Needs 10 July 2020 Brainwashed Generation is the fifteenth album from hair-power-pop veterans Enuff Z'Nuff
The Vacant Lots' Interzone: the perfect stun-blast soundtrack for a shattered society By Kris Needs 26 June 2020 Society-lacerating third album Interzone from Vermont electro-punks The Vacant Lots
Iggy Pop's Bowie Years: the resurgence of the punkfather By Kris Needs 29 May 2020 Iggy Pop's 1977 twin towers, Bowie-branded and expanded with familiar extras
Sir Lord Baltimore's Complete Recordings: revelatory, and endlessly entertaining By Kris Needs 22 May 2020 Gloriously untamed proto-metal unearthed on Sir Lord Baltimore's The Complete Recordings: 1970-2006
Phil Campbell's Old Lions Still Roar: Lemmy would be proud By Kris Needs 25 October 2019 Life after Lemmy sees Phil Campbell's mane event realised with star-studded solo album Old Lions Still Roar
Nick Cave’s Ghosteen: turning life-altering grief into other-worldly beauty By Kris Needs 05 October 2019 Nick Cave’s new album Ghosteen is an astonishing work which sees him transform his grief into a poetic masterpiece
Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul: Summer Of Sorcery album review By Kris Needs 02 May 2019 Timely defiance from E Street Band legend Little Steven, with new album Summer Of Sorcery
Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap (30th Anniversary) album review By Kris Needs 29 March 2019 Rolling Stone Keith Richards' 1988 solo debut gets major expansion job – in real Fender wood!
Steve Miller Band - Complete Albums Volume 1 (1968-1976) review By Kris Needs 23 May 2018 Not yet rated Steve Miller’s tale told through first nine albums, now remastered. Available separately too
Wishbone Ash - The Vintage Years 1970 - 1991 box set review By Kris Needs 01 May 2018 Wishbone Ash blaze, crash-dive and become yacht-rock captains on this monolithic, 30-CD box set
Lure, Burke, Stinson, Kramer - L.A.M.F. Live At The Bowery Electric - review By Kris Needs 08 March 2018 Back to the Bowery
