Articles by: Mark Beaumont

Mark Beaumont is a music journalist with almost three decades' experience writing for publications including Classic Rock, NME, The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times, Uncut and Melody Maker. He has written major biographies on Muse, Jay-Z, The Killers, Kanye West and Bon Iver and his debut novel [6666666666] is available on Kindle.

Articles by: Mark Beaumont

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The Hold Steady: Craig Finn on revolution tourists, desperate characters and exploitation

By Mark Beaumont published 11 April 23

"When The Hold Steady gets together and there’s big guitars and big drums, the stories I want to tell are bigger" - Craig Finn

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The Strokes' singles collection is a box set without a single wasted note

By Mark Beaumont published 24 February 23

The Strokes' Singles Volume 1 is a historic collection from modern indie rock's Big Bang

Garbage's Anthology: a quarter of a century of pushing boundaries and brutal, beautiful trash

By Mark Beaumont published 30 October 22

Tech-rock masters Garbage lay out their full blueprint on (mostly) career-spanning Anthology

Suede get back to basics on "punk" album Autofiction

By Mark Beaumont published 16 September 22

Suede plug in and play on Autofiction but still sound enormous. with oodles of alt-rock thrust

Afghan Whigs: still mixing psychedelic rock and brimstone gospel in fiery fashion

By Mark Beaumont published 9 September 22

Greg Dulli’s dark destroyers the Afghan Whigs glower as gigantically as ever on ninth album How Do You Burn?

Muse capture the the head-spinning chaos of the age on Will Of The People

By Mark Beaumont published 26 August 22

Stadium rockers Muse's damning pandemic-era address Will Of The People rocks through the wreckage of 2022

R.E.M.'s Chronic Town: enigmatic jangle rock that sounds like a portal to the ghost dimension

By Mark Beaumont published 19 August 22

R.E.M.'s formative indie-rock EP Chronic Town belatedly makes it to compact disc

What happened when we took Michael Monroe record shopping in Helsinki

By Mark Beaumont published 17 August 22

"I turn sixty this year, so I can’t die young any more, right? I live my days, I don’t count my years" - Michael Monroe

Future-metal duo Nova Twins crank up the noise and they're only getting started

By Mark Beaumont published 17 June 22

Second album Supernova brings enough heft and enormity to Nova Twins to make them serious contenders

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Bob Vylan's The Price Of Life: an incisive, furious, electric wake-up call

By Mark Beaumont published 22 April 22

The Price Of Life sees Britain’s social ills slammed in your face by London’s visceral grime-punk duo Bob Vylan

Placebo's Never Let Me Go is paranoid, euphoric, and surprisingly timely

By Mark Beaumont published 25 March 22

Personal, political and climate collapse get a timely cyber rock probing on Placebo’s first in almost a decade, Never Let Me Go

Placebo's Never Let Me Go: first album in nine years is worth the wait

By Mark Beaumont published 21 March 22

Brian Molko's band burn brightly on the intriguing Never Let Me Go, their first album in almost a decade

Ghost's Impera: large doses of schlock but marginally more meaty

By Mark Beaumont published 11 March 22

Swedish theatrical rockers Ghost swap Medieval demons for modern-day counterparts on fifth album Impera

Things Are Great by Band Of Horses is a minor wonder of wit, weight and emotion

By Mark Beaumont published 4 March 22

Cavernous alt.country rockers Band Of Horses resoundingly back in the saddle on Things Are Great

The Tragically Hip: a true story of triumph and tragedy

By Mark Beaumont published 6 February 22

Megastars in their native Canada, The Tragically Hip mourned with an entire country when frontman Gord Downie passed away aged 53. This is their story

The Tragically Hip's 5 Key Shows

By Mark Beaumont published 7 January 22

Five keys shows from the three decade career of much-loved Canadian icons The Tragically Hip

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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: pulling magnificence from the murk

By Mark Beaumont published 19 November 21

Raise The Roof is perfectly matched pair Robert Plant & Alison Krauss's long-awaited dark country follow-up to 2007’s Raising Sand

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Lindsey Buckingham's self-titled album is all new beginnings and bold futures

By Mark Beaumont published 18 September 21

Amid much turmoil, ex-Fleetwood Mac man Lindsey Buckingham forges forward, brilliantly

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Manic Street Preachers spin musical wheels again on The Ultra Vivid Lament

By Mark Beaumont published 10 September 21

Anthemic legends the Manic Street Preachers turn super-ambient rock troupers on The Ultra Vivid Lament

The Datsuns don't fix what wasn't broke but Eye To Eye still engrosses

By Mark Beaumont published 28 May 21

Eye To Eye finds long dormant Kiwi blues rockers The Datsuns reawaken with a wider 70s perspective

Royal Blood find disco glitter amidst darkness and paranoia on Typhoons

By Mark Beaumont published 30 April 21

Brighton’s mightiest blues-rockers Royal Blood wreak disco devastation on Typhoons

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, one of rock's rawest albums, dissected over six CDs

By Mark Beaumont published 23 April 21

Who’d have thought John Lennon’s therapeutic confessional Plastic Ono Band could get more exposed?

Saint Agnes go for the jugular on Vampire

By Mark Beaumont published 26 March 21

Vampire is horror-flick mini-album fantasia from London’s dark dockland hopes Saint Agnes

Kings Of Leon's When You See Yourself is a record of life-worn wisdom, hard times and hope

By Mark Beaumont published 5 March 21

A time capsule from the pre-pandemic age, Kings Of Leon’s eighth album When You See Yourself remains remarkably relevant

The Hold Steady's Open Door Policy finds new life beyond the burn-out

By Mark Beaumont published 20 February 21

Brooklyn’s anthemic bar rockers The Hold Steady tell stories featuring a litany of beaten characters on Open Door Policy, but there's light in the darkness

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