Latest articles by Mark Beaumont
Muse capture the the head-spinning chaos of the age on Will Of The People
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
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
"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
Second album Supernova brings enough heft and enormity to Nova Twins to make them serious contenders
Bob Vylan's The Price Of Life: an incisive, furious, electric wake-up call
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
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
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
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
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
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
Five keys shows from the three decade career of much-loved Canadian icons The Tragically Hip
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: pulling magnificence from the murk
Raise The Roof is perfectly matched pair Robert Plant & Alison Krauss's long-awaited dark country follow-up to 2007’s Raising Sand
Lindsey Buckingham's self-titled album is all new beginnings and bold futures
Amid much turmoil, ex-Fleetwood Mac man Lindsey Buckingham forges forward, brilliantly
Manic Street Preachers spin musical wheels again on The Ultra Vivid Lament
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
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
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
Who’d have thought John Lennon’s therapeutic confessional Plastic Ono Band could get more exposed?
Saint Agnes go for the jugular on Vampire
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
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
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
Smashing Pumpkins mesh enigmatic synth-pop and mysticism on Cyr
Billy Corgan’s trademark sharp melodies fly on Smashing Pumpkins' upbeat synth-pop album Cyr
The Stranglers' Peaches highlights a career that veers from degeneration to delight
Peaches - The Very Best Of The Stranglers is a schizophrenic charge through classics and curios, and it's now on vinyl
Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound Of Thunder: now longer and lovelier than before
David Gilmour refocuses Pink Floyd on the remixed mighty live double Delicate Sound Of Thunder
