Latest articles by Mark Beaumont
Bob Mould's Blue Hearts is music for smashing in the news channels
Hüsker Dü legend Bob Mould tackles the present American crisis on Blue Hearts
The Flaming Lips - American Head: The dark side of the 70s dream
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
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
Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath by The Blinders is the definitive dark rock diatribe for lockdown Britain
The Airborne Toxic Event's Hollywood Park: a grandiose reflection on a tumultuous life
The Airborne Toxic Event's Hollywood Park is an autobiographical epic full of cults and glory
Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go 20
The poignant, bombastic turning point between old and new Manics
Brian Fallon's Local Honey: melancholy painted with modern oils
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
Green Day's new album Father Of All Motherf**kers is all out of politics (for now) – instead the Day party hard, 1950s style
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders' Get The Money: the post-grunge Ringo’s All-Starrs
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins delivers impressive solo LP Get The Money
Muse: Simulation Theory album review
Space rockers Muse go full San Junipero on new album Simulation Theory
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch album reviewed
Trent Reznor's merry men return with an album that sounds "like the end of music".
Johnny Marr - Call The Comet album review
Intense noir rock from the Smiths songwriter with a functioning moral compass
A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant album reviewed
A sophisticated return for Tool’s ‘feminine’ offshoot
Buffalo Tom - Quiet And Peace album review
Grunge’s forest-rock critters Buffalo Tom can still bare their teeth
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac album review
In which Fleetwood Mac Mk 2 rises from two separate dumpers
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus album review
Provocative soundtrack to a yet to be made movie
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures album review
San Fran gloomsters’ “conversation with death” sounds more alive than ever
Nick Oliveri - N.O. Hits At All Vol. 3 album review
More ferociously fun anti-hits from ex-QOTSA bass maniac
Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down album review
Mazza returns to peak-era sounds for his most astute album in decades
The Who - Tommy Live At The Royal Albert Hall review
The original rock opera gets its first airing since 1989
