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 (opens in new tab).

Articles by: Mark Beaumont

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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

Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight spikes grunge ballast with pop panache

By Mark Beaumont published 5 February 21

Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight is Dave Grohl’s tightest set yet, with supernatural aid

Smashing Pumpkins mesh enigmatic synth-pop and mysticism on Cyr

By Mark Beaumont published 27 November 20

Billy Corgan’s trademark sharp melodies fly on Smashing Pumpkins' upbeat synth-pop album Cyr

The Stranglers: Peaches - The Very Best Of The Stranglers

The Stranglers' Peaches highlights a career that veers from degeneration to delight

By Mark Beaumont published 27 November 20

Peaches - The Very Best Of The Stranglers is a schizophrenic charge through classics and curios, and it's now on vinyl

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Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound Of Thunder: now longer and lovelier than before

By Mark Beaumont published 20 November 20

David Gilmour refocuses Pink Floyd on the remixed mighty live double Delicate Sound Of Thunder

Letter To You finds Bruce Springsteen full of wisdom yet still young at heart

By Mark Beaumont published 23 October 20

Fast and live, the The Boss and the E Street Band rescue lost tunes and toast lost brothers on Letter To You

The Struts master the classic rock arts on third album Strange Days

By Mark Beaumont published 16 October 20

An instant rock-down classic from The Struts on third album Strange Days (as long as you ignore the title track and Robbie Williams)

Bob Mould's Blue Hearts is music for smashing in the news channels

By Mark Beaumont published 25 September 20

Hüsker Dü legend Bob Mould tackles the present American crisis on Blue Hearts

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The Flaming Lips - American Head: The dark side of the 70s dream

By Mark Beaumont published 11 September 20

The Flaming Lips have just released their new album American Head, and here's what we made of it

Pixies: Bossanova - a classic of rock futurism brought back from the past

By Mark Beaumont published 7 August 20

Pixies' classic third album Bossanova, now available in delicious red vinyl to celebrate its 30th anniversary

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