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

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 last updated 20 September 22

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 last updated 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

Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound Of Thunder vinyl box set

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

Album art for Flaming Lips American Head

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

The Blinders' Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath: the claustrophobic sound of our times

By Mark Beaumont published 17 July 20

Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath by The Blinders is the definitive dark rock diatribe for lockdown Britain

The Airborne Toxic Event: Hollywood Park

The Airborne Toxic Event's Hollywood Park: a grandiose reflection on a tumultuous life

By Mark Beaumont published 22 May 20

The Airborne Toxic Event's Hollywood Park is an autobiographical epic full of cults and glory

Brian Fallon's Local Honey: melancholy painted with modern oils

By Mark Beaumont published 27 March 20

Gaslight Anthem mainman Brian Fallon pulls up a stool on Local Honey

Green Day have made a college jock party record and it's the best thing they've done in years

By Mark Beaumont last updated 7 February 20

Green Day's new album Father Of All Motherf**kers is all out of politics (for now) – instead the Day party hard, 1950s style

Pink Floyd's The Later Years: when an 18 disc box set isn't quite enough

By Mark Beaumont last updated 20 September 22

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

Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders' Get The Money: the post-grunge Ringo’s All-Starrs

By Mark Beaumont published 8 November 19

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins delivers impressive solo LP Get The Money

Muse: Simulation Theory album review

By Mark Beaumont published 9 November 18

Space rockers Muse go full San Junipero on new album Simulation Theory

Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch album reviewed

By Mark Beaumont published 22 June 18

Trent Reznor's merry men return with an album that sounds "like the end of music".

Johnny Marr - Call The Comet album review

By Mark Beaumont published 1 June 18

Intense noir rock from the Smiths songwriter with a functioning moral compass

A Perfect Circle Eat The Elephant album cover

A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant album reviewed

By Mark Beaumont published 20 April 18

A sophisticated return for Tool’s ‘feminine’ offshoot

Buffalo Tom - Quiet And Peace album review

By Mark Beaumont published 29 March 18

Grunge’s forest-rock critters Buffalo Tom can still bare their teeth

Cover art for Andrew WK - You’re Not Alone album

Andrew WK - You’re Not Alone album review

By Mark Beaumont published 7 March 18

Monumental return from party-metal overlord

Cover art for Sultans Of Ping F.C. - Casual Sex In The Cineplex album

Sultans Of Ping F.C. - Casual Sex In The Cineplex album review

By Mark Beaumont published 3 February 18

Jumper, rediscovered

Cover art for Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac album

Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac album review

By Mark Beaumont published 2 February 18

In which Fleetwood Mac Mk 2 rises from two separate dumpers

Cover art for Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus album

Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus album review

By Mark Beaumont published 1 February 18

Provocative soundtrack to a yet to be made movie

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