Owen Cummings

Owen Cummings

Owen Cummings is a Herefordshire-based freelance music journalist, sports writer, broadcaster and guitarist. Specialising in modern-classic rock bands of the ’90s and post-millennium including the Foo Fighters and Oasis, he is also an upcoming local musician and gear expert, favouring the Gibson Les Paul and PRS SE models.

Latest articles by Owen Cummings

Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne: The Albums, Ranked

By Owen Cummings published

The collected works of Canada's pop-punk princess re-reviewed and ranked

Albums
Nirvana and In Utero producer Steve Albini

"We kept the groupies and drug dealers away": Steve Albini on the making of In Utero, Nirvana's bleak, beautiful swansong

By Owen Cummings published

The unimaginable success of Nevermind made Nirvana the world's most reluctant and confused rock stars. Steve Albini looks back on what Kurt Cobain's band did next, and the birth of their dark masterpiece In Utero

Albums
Guns N' Roses in 1988, with (inset) Alan Niven today

"Guns N' Roses have been creatively impotent since 1991" - former manager Alan Niven

By Owen Cummings published

Alan Niven shepherded Guns N' Roses through Appetite For Destruction and the Use Your Illusions. He doesn't hold out much hope for a new album

Bands & Artists