Liz Evans went to Jarvis Cocker’s house party and was gifted shoes by Kim Gordon. Her review of music books by Kate Mossman and John Harris sits alongside her memories.
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Beyoncé winning the best country album Grammy with Cowboy Carter forces us to face our fixation with ‘genre’ – and rightly so.
There’s a lot of hot rock in the way, and sooner or later your hole would collapse.
Dark and light collide in this new album that harks back to some of the band’s best work
The earthquake, one of New Jersey’s largest on record, could be felt from Maryland to Boston. But don’t read too much into it.
As their debut album turns 50, we look back on Kiss’s larger-than-life career – and forward to what might come next.
Foot stomping songs and charismatic performances make the stage adaptation of the 1970s TV series a hit.
Her music can be found on dad rock compilations and on the set lists at drag nights.
With tours from emo mainstays My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Paramore, this year has heralded new life for a genre fans thought had died out.
The pianist and vocalist helped Fleetwood Mac weather the changes in the music world.
Black artists have been fundamental to the history of alternative music – the introduction of the Mobos’ alternative category mustn’t forget that.
From songs on the Spanish revolution to others on American Imperialism, Strummer’s lyrics inspired a generation of music-lovers to action.
The sounds and attitude of punk were all about not conforming to the norm and rebelling against all that came before it.
Beyond just his music, Freddie Mercury’s performances, style, and fluidity influenced both his generation and those that followed.
The album cover was inspired by Kurt Cobain’s fascination with underwater births.
A drummer with an ability to fluidly move between genres without being showy, Charlie Watts helped shape The Rolling Stones’ sound beyond rock.
Ahead of the release of the artist’s posthumous album, a sense of awe and mystery around his huge archive of unreleased music remains
Released in 1980, AC/DC’s Back in Black established a sound and a way bands could be powerful brands that would reverberate through rock for years to come.
Martian meteorites allow scientists here on Earth to decode that planet’s geology, more than a decade before the first missions are scheduled to bring rocks back home from Mars.
During a tour to Australia, Little Richard feared the nuclear apocalypse and – on stage – annonced he was giving up music.
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Humanities, Adelaide University
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Professor of Screen Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Co-director of The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Course Director MMus Songwriting, Bath Spa University
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Research fellow, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
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Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender, Macquarie University
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Professor of Geosciences, Buffalo State, The State University of New York
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Reader in Digital Media Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Theatre for Social Change, University of Portsmouth
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Outreach and Research Associate, Lancaster University
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Reader in the Department of Music, University of Liverpool