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In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
By David Stubbs published
Hawkwind's 37th album There’s No Space For Us finds the space travellin' veterans in cosmic shipshape form

Hawkwind’s late-career purple patch continues with There Is No Space For Us
By Mike Barnes published
Hawkwind return with There Is No Space For Us, another impressive blend of familiar elements and stylistic surprises in what’s effectively a sister album to Stories From Time And Space

The big hits are nowhere to be heard as Neil Young digs deep on the unusually atmospheric Coastal
By Fraser Lewry published
Neil Young's millionth live album just happens to be a good one

How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun
By Paul Brannigan published
Eye-popping and wildly entertaining oral history of Perry Farrell's groundbreaking travelling circus (and freak show)

Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world
By Matt Mills published
At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding

Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb

“Darkness and bleakness still lurks – but the album offers light and hope”: IQ’s Dominion
By Gary McKenzie published
With masterful vocal performances backed up by a huge range of sounds, IQ’s Dominion is worth the six-year wait

Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials deliver a deliciously warped mix of camp thrills and tense gothic drama on kaleidoscopic debut album A Crash Course In Catastrophe
By Paul Brannigan published
Chris Connelly-fronted alt.rockers Sevendials get their groove on with A Crash Course In Catastrophe
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