Latest articles by Niall Doherty
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
How Chris Cornell channelled Paul McCartney and Tom Jones when writing his epic Bond theme You Know My Name
Casino Royale kickstarted a new era for 007 and producers tapped up a grunge icon to ensure they had a theme tune to match
How Kurt Cobain wrote Nirvana’s classic B-side Sliver, the “ridiculous pop song” that paved the way for Nevermind
Embarking on a little pop experiment, Kurt Cobain emerged with one of the most enjoyably silly songs of Nirvana’s career
“All it takes is someone like Neil to point at you and it’s on”: what Eddie Vedder learned making Pearl Jam’s Merkin Ball EP with Neil Young
The story of what happened when Vedder joined his bandmates and Young at the tailend of the sessions for Mirror Ball
The crack covers album that brought Rage Against The Machine’s glorious first phase to a messy end
The LA quartet's fourth record Renegades was meant to be a celebration, only for Zack de la Rocha to leave the band before it was even released
The story of the boozy Counting Crows classic their drummer detested
A song Counting Crows' still-sozzled singer Adam Duritz wrote immediately after (and about) a wild night out, Mr. Jones became radio staple, a huge hit and their signature song
In celebration of the hugely-entertaining, long-running beef between Robert Smith and Morrissey
The Cure and Smiths frontmen had a long-running war of words beginning back in 1984 and here are some of the best bits.
The story of Alice In Chains’ final album with Layne Staley, the beginning of the end for their classic line-up
The grunge titans just about managed to hold it together for their self-titled 1995 third record but they knew something had to give
