Latest articles by Mark Beaumont
"When The Hold Steady gets together and there’s big guitars and big drums, the stories I want to tell are bigger" - Craig Finn
The Strokes' Singles Volume 1 is a historic collection from modern indie rock's Big Bang
Tech-rock masters Garbage lay out their full blueprint on (mostly) career-spanning Anthology
Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight is Dave Grohl’s tightest set yet, with supernatural aid
Dave Grohl and co. tackle our dark political age with the sounds of hard rock’s golden age
From psychedelic lynchpins to proto-prog experimentalists in four awkward stages.
Seek and destroy: the metal titans bring their fan-pleasing thrash-country‑metal mix to the masses in a kick-ass show
Even with remixed albums and live recordings, Pink Floyd's The Later Years box set isn't quite as thorough as it could have been
Suede plug in and play on Autofiction but still sound enormous. with oodles of alt-rock thrust
Greg Dulli’s dark destroyers the Afghan Whigs glower as gigantically as ever on ninth album How Do You Burn?
Stadium rockers Muse's damning pandemic-era address Will Of The People rocks through the wreckage of 2022
R.E.M.'s formative indie-rock EP Chronic Town belatedly makes it to compact disc
"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
Second album Supernova brings enough heft and enormity to Nova Twins to make them serious contenders
The Price Of Life sees Britain’s social ills slammed in your face by London’s visceral grime-punk duo Bob Vylan
Personal, political and climate collapse get a timely cyber rock probing on Placebo’s first in almost a decade, Never Let Me Go
Brian Molko's band burn brightly on the intriguing Never Let Me Go, their first album in almost a decade
Swedish theatrical rockers Ghost swap Medieval demons for modern-day counterparts on fifth album Impera
Cavernous alt.country rockers Band Of Horses resoundingly back in the saddle on Things Are Great
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
Five keys shows from the three decade career of much-loved Canadian icons The Tragically Hip
Raise The Roof is perfectly matched pair Robert Plant & Alison Krauss's long-awaited dark country follow-up to 2007’s Raising Sand
Amid much turmoil, ex-Fleetwood Mac man Lindsey Buckingham forges forward, brilliantly
