Bobby Brown was a textbook example of the boyband bad boy. Before Donnie Wahlberg, Robbie Williams and Brian Harvey, Brown spicily non-conformed in New
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BBC – Music – Review of Modest Mussorgsky / Sergei Prokofiev
Steven Osborne has chosen another cornerstone of the Russian piano repertoire as the follow-on to his critically acclaimed recording of Rachmaninov‘s 24 Preludes, and
BBC – Music – Review of Bring Me the Horizon
One has to admire the chutzpah of Sheffield crew Bring Me the Horizon. Poised to dominate British metal in the wake of 2010’s third
BBC – Music – Review of Big Boi
Big Boi’s solo debut proper, 2010’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, saw the Outkast rapper establish himself as a critically
BBC – Music – Review of Dobie
Dobie was a skateboarder and photographer in the 1980s, before his involvement with Soul II Soul led to work with Massive Attack, and remixing
BBC – Music – Review of Atoms for Peace
A supergroup they may ostensibly be, but it’s hard to shake the impression that – despite the presence of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Red
BBC – Music – Review of Bad Brains
Amongst the original US hardcore trailblazers of the 80s underground, no band was more incendiary or more controversial than Bad Brains. The fiery meld
BBC – Music – Review of Matmos
Telepathic roots bloom the strangest fruits and Matmos’ latest yield – even for a duo well versed in the amplified neural activity of crayfish
BBC – Music – Review of Various Artists
The brainchild of Elektra Records chief Jac Holzman, Nuggets was a double-album survey of grass roots American garage-rock “one-hit wonders”, originally released in 1972,
BBC – Music – Review of Steve Mason
“People forget that John Lennon was a political animal,” said Alan McGee, selling the politicised zeal behind Steve Mason’s false-dawn comeback as King Biscuit