Sparks' new album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip refines and amplifies their weirdness By Stephen Dalton Veteran avant-glam baroque-pop duo Sparks continue their autumnal resurgence on 24th album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
The story of Rammstein: porno-punk cabaret and pyromania By Stephen Dalton Over the past 25 years, Rammstein have defied conventional wisdom and become superstars. This is their story
How to buy the very best of The Cure By Stephen Dalton The Cure's albums have gone from sullen outsider anthems to stadium-sized riff monsters and all points in between. All hail the ‘goth Led Zeppelin’
David Bowie - Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) album review By Stephen Dalton Bowie’s most critically derided period, remixed, remastered and partially rehabilitated.
Halestorm - Vicious album review By Stephen Dalton Lzzy Hale channels her inner Joan Jett on US band’s ass-kicking fourth album.
The 7 best scenes from the Decline Of Western Civilization By Stephen Dalton Director Penelope Spheeris reveals her favourite scenes from the three Decline Of Western Civilization films
Manic Street Preachers - Resistance is Futile album review By Stephen Dalton Welsh rockers return to stadium-sized anthemics on their thirteenth album
Napalm Death - Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs album review By Stephen Dalton Juicy off-cuts and blood-soaked rarities from the avant-metal abbatoir
The Lovely Eggs - This Is Eggland album review By Stephen Dalton Alt.rock legend helps Lancashire indie pranksters expand their horizons
Ruby Boots - Don’t Talk About It album review By Stephen Dalton Full-throated country-rock diva puts another dime in the jukebox
Black Moth - Anatomical Venus album reviewed By Stephen Dalton Yorkshire grit meets goth-metal glamour
Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters - Live At David Lynch’s...review By Stephen Dalton Not yet rated Roots-rocking lion king shares his appetite for disruption
Laura Jane Grace: I want music to have more diversity By Stephen Dalton She may be Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, but the Against Me! singer’s public transsexual transformation gives her a unique view of sexuality in today’s music industry
Skids - Scared To Dance (Expanded) album review By Stephen Dalton Scottish art-punks 1979 debut, now as a three-disc box set
Mike Garson Plays Aladdin Sane at 02 Academy, Liverpool - live review By Stephen Dalton Not yet rated Pianist on Bowie classic plays it again
Why the Dio hologram is just the beginning... and who's coming up next By Stephen Dalton We go behind the scenes with the company that made the Dio hologram, and discover that they're only getting started
Evanescence - Synthesis album review By Stephen Dalton Goth-rock superstars give themselves an electro-orchestral remix
Black Sabbath - The End of The End review By Stephen Dalton Grizzled godfathers of metal bow out to a home-town crowd
The Sisters Of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake album review By Stephen Dalton Fifty shades of black, newly reissued on deluxe vinyl
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead – Deluxe Edition album review By Stephen Dalton Teenage dreams are hard to beat
Bad Religion at Bristol Academy - live review By Stephen Dalton Not yet rated Popcore stalwarts persist in preaching SoCal’s punk gospel
Megadeth at Bloodstock Open Air, Catton Hall, Derbyshire - live review By Stephen Dalton Not yet rated After years of ups and downs playing live, the thrash pioneers are back in startling form
