Articles by: Nick Hasted

Cover art for Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow album

Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow album review

By Nick Hasted

Sturdily soulful Americana

Cover art for Black Stone Cherry - Black To Blues album

Black Stone Cherry - Black To Blues album review

By Nick Hasted

Southern rockers bow to the blues

Cover art for The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here? album

The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here? album review

By Nick Hasted

Paisley Underground heroes resurface

Cover art for Rick Wakeman - The Art In Music Trilogy album

Rick Wakeman - The Art In Music Trilogy album review

By Nick Hasted

Remastered, committed New Age noodling

Cover art for Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Southern Rock Jam album

Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Southern Rock Jam album review

By Nick Hasted

Holding firm after the Allmans

Cover art Hard Working Americans - We’re All In This Together album

Hard Working Americans - We’re All In This Together album review

By Nick Hasted

Supergroup of sorts jam for America

Cover art for The Allman Brothers Band - Hell & High Water: The Best Of The Arista Years album

The Allman Brothers Band - Hell & High Water: The Best Of The... album review

By Nick Hasted

Best of the Brothers’ worst

Cover art for Fairport Convention - Come All Ye: The First Ten Years album

Fairport Convention - Come All Ye: The First Ten Years album review

By Nick Hasted

Seven discs celebrate folk rockers 50th

Cover art for Bill Baird - Baby Blue Abyss / Easy Machines album

Bill Baird - Baby Blue Abyss / Easy Machines album review

By Nick Hasted

Not yet rated

Two sides of US indie rebel auteur

Aaron Buchanan And The Cult Classics - The Man With Stars On... album review

By Nick Hasted

Heaven’s Basement singer’s swaggering solo return.

A photograph of Yoshiki lying on a piano

X Japan's Yoshiki: "I’m almost killing myself every show"

By Nick Hasted

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They’re all-conquering, Godzilla-sized monsters of rock in their home country, and now they’re bringing the X factor to the world

Cover art for Alejandro Escovedo - Burn Something Beautiful album

Alejandro Escovedo - Burn Something Beautiful album review

By Nick Hasted

Peter Buck collaborates with embattled punk veteran

Cover artwork for Last Of The Giants: The True Story Of Guns N’ Roses by Mick Wall

Last Of The Giants: The True Story Of Guns N’ Roses by Mick Wall review

By Nick Hasted

Maximum rock’n’madness

Cover art for The Molochs - America's Velvet Glory

The Molochs - America's Velvet Glory album review

By Nick Hasted

Garage-rock revived with conviction on duo’s second

Why Dropkick Murphys stand for hard work and doing things the right way

By Nick Hasted

Rebels with a cause: Holding out a hand to the the deserving, the disenfranchised and the down and out, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys are on a mission

Fleetwood Mac in 1982: (l-r) Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie

Why Fleetwood Mac's Mirage was one of the best albums of the 1980s

By Nick Hasted

Avalanched by the enormity of Rumours, the smooth ’n’ simple Mirage is ironically invisible in Fleetwood Mac’s catalogue. But for Christine McVie, its creation represents a happier time

Johnny Marr - Set The Boy Free book review

By Nick Hasted

Autobiography recalls much more than Morrissey

Augustines: "We knew we couldn't afford to keep doing this"

By Nick Hasted

The ‘Not Famous’ Augustines have been downed by money problems in 2016. And their plight is a chillingly familiar one for bands operating at a time when the record industry is in free fall

The Story Behind The Song: Neil Young - After The Gold Rush

By Nick Hasted

Influenced by an end-of-the-world screenplay and feverishly crafted while on tour with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, it was a leap of faith that became one of Neil Young's most enduring songs

No more troubled times: The Jayhawks head back to the stage

By Nick Hasted

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After a tumultuous 31-year career of inter-band fall outs, the reunited country rockers strut their stuff at a London double-header

Close-up colour portrait of Glenn Hughes wearing sunglasses

"Don’t fry bacon when you’re pissed..." The Gospel According To Glenn Hughes

By Nick Hasted

Keep your head when there’s a gun pointed at it, careful what you do when you're under the influence… And all the other things that 50 years in rock’n’roll has taught Glenn Hughes