Latest articles by Stephen Dalton
Six decades in, Queen’s indefatigable drummer Roger Taylor has released his politically charged seventh solo album, Violence Insane In A Beautiful World
Tom Cruise’s new movie Digger has split the critics - but it’s got nothing on Rock Of Ages
The sound of a bunch of scrappy youths from Scotland's industrial heartland
The Wow! Signal is Muse at their sharpest, eclectic and energised, but low on the bloat and bombast that sometimes marred previous albums
Squeeze joined the dots between The Beatles, punk and kitchen sink dramas
Bob Mould spent much of 1991 on punishing tours in a bid to salvage his ailing career - then came the song that showed him the way forward
How Bob Mould wrote Sugar’s classic 1992 grunge-era anthem Hoover Dam
The Purple Rain movie may have been a polished turd of soapy melodrama, but it – and the brilliant soundtrack – transformed Prince into a towering icon of the video age
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Freddie's solo debut remains flawed but sporadically glorious.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Freddie's solo debut remains flawed but sporadically glorious.
Veteran Brit-rockers Skunk Anansie defy challenging times with ambitious midlife reboot The Painful Truth
Buying guide The Cure have gone from sullen outsiders to stadium-sized riff monsters via all points in between
Sex, drugs and hanging out with former members of Led Zeppelin – The Mission proved goth was anything but doom and gloom
Retro-rocking duo The Courettes amp up their more romantic side to great effect
Talking Heads' seminal concert film soundtrack Stop Making Sense, expanded and repackaged
Britpop's favourite grumpy uncle channels Bowie, Bacharach and Blur on 17th solo album
10 essential pop-punk classics from the band who wrote the book
Radiohead's breakaway trio The Smile return with psychedelic sambas and rule-bending jazz rock
Before his death, Joe Strummer could hardly get arrested. After, he was feted as a rock icon. This is the inside story of the solo years of a punk rock warlord
Country queen Dolly Parton rocks out with McCartney, Halford, Tyler, Jett and a cast of thousands
From The Man Who Fell To Earth to The Hunger, this is the best of David Bowie on the big screen
The Mael brothers cement their autumnal resurgence with The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, a strong return to their former UK label
A post-Fletch Depeche Mode channel grief into deluxe autumnal electro-blues on fifteenth studio album Memento Mori
