Latest articles by Niall Doherty
Smashing Pumpkins release their grand artistic statement on Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Billy Corgan’s ambitions reached their zenith on Smashing Pumpkins' swollen 1995 double album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Bono's best friend reveals exactly what it takes to be U2’s Creative Director
The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s
The huge Radiohead hit that the band haven't touched for over 25 years
Thom Yorke first performed the band’s much-loved 1995 single with his previous group Headless Chickens, and there’s video evidence
It's 10 years since Radiohead last released an album and I accidentally got the only interview for it
How a night on the tiles in Paris with Radiohead in 2016 turned into something more special
Reflected glory: the story of the Neil Young and Pearl Jam team-up album Mirror Ball
The grunge superstars learned a lot when they teamed up with the rock veteran to make his 1995 album, but they regret not putting their name on it
"There’s two days missing from my life. Apparently, we had a really good time!" That time The Cure's Robert Smith went on a 48 hours drinking session with David Bowie's guitarist, then offered him a job
Robert Smith and Reeves Gabrels got together in 1997 to rehearse for David Bowie’s 50th birthday gig, then hit the town to celebrate. Things got messy
“We’re still making records because we think we’re the best band in the world”: The Jesus and Mary Chain may not have destroyed the music industry as they had hoped, but they gave it a damn good shot
God bless The Jesus and Mary Chain
The troubled, tragic tale of Stone Temple Pilots’ self-titled sixth album
What was meant to be a fresh start for the grunge giants ended up being the beginning of the end
The night Depeche Mode caused a riot in LA and became a national sensation
The story of the night that these electro-pop pioneers from Essex caused such carnage they made the US national news
Gwen Stefani wrote an album about her bandmate dumping her, and it made No Doubt huge
The Californian ska-pop quartet went supernova with Gwen Stefani's heartbreak anthems
Billy Corgan on how he became a fan of The Cure...and the first time he met Robert Smith
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and Cure leader went on to become fast friends
Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round discuss soundtracking the end times
Why we all need to put down our phone and pick up a glass of gin
How Stone Temple Pilots emerged from one of the darkest periods of their career with the bold, brilliant Tiny Music...
The grunge stars who made their experimental record in the face of one of the most harrowing periods of their career
The story of Depeche Mode’s Stripped, the song that sampled Dave Gahan’s Porsche and inspired Trent Reznor to start writing Pretty Hate Machine
This 1986 single pushed these Essex trailblazers into a whole new realm and they never looked back
The story of the David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance
With input from Trent Reznor and Ice Cube, I'm Afraid Of Americans was rescued from Showgirls ignominy and given a prescient, unnerving video
The harrowing story behind Skunk Anansie's empowering classic Weak
How shock turned to rage and, years later, rage turned into one of this rock quartet's biggest hits
How The Strokes saved rock’n’roll from its post-millennial doldrums... with a demo
The Manhattan quintet whose emergence in 2001 opened the floodgates for a whole new generation of guitar bands
Justin Hawkins on Christmas, Iron Maiden, brother Dan being a rock star, Yungblud and more
The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins is currently on the road with his Justin Hawkins’ Rides Again... Again! tour
The story of Tonight Tonight, the only grunge classic to involve SpongeBob SquarePants
Billy Corgan & co. entered into a different realm with this all-time cut from Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
How Michael Stipe wanting to out "yeah" Nirvana helped inspire R.E.M.'s classic Man On The Moon
Stipe had writer’s block on this Automatic For The People standout until a stroll round Seattle opened the floodgates for one of his band’s biggest anthems
The stars who've made Bond themes only to have them rejected
A host of artists have had a crack at a 007 theme only for producers to knock them back.
How The Breeders, Foo Fighters and Rage Against The Machine inspired The Prodigy to make Firestarter
The dance titans embraced a whole new sound on this all-conquering Fat Of The Land anthem and they never looked back
The story of Temple Of The Dog's sole record, a grunge classic born out of grief
Members of Soundgarden and a fledgling Pearl Jam came together in 1990 to record a tribute to their late friend and emerged with a grunge classic
