Latest articles by Stephen Dalton
Skunk Anansie's The Painful Truth is their best work in decades
Veteran Brit-rockers Skunk Anansie defy challenging times with ambitious midlife reboot The Painful Truth
All hail the goth Led Zeppelin: Every album by The Cure ranked from worst to best
The Cure have gone from sullen outsiders to stadium-sized riff monsters via all points in between
The chaotic story of The Mission, the goth band who wanted to be Led Zeppelin
Sex, drugs and hanging out with former members of Led Zeppelin – The Mission proved goth was anything but doom and gloom
The Courettes ramp up the melody on The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes
Retro-rocking duo The Courettes amp up their more romantic side to great effect
"This brilliant avant-rock band embracing mainstream pop success with wit, style, and groove-heavy swagger can still floor you": Talking Heads' seminal concert film soundtrack expanded and repackaged
Talking Heads' seminal concert film soundtrack Stop Making Sense, expanded and repackaged
Paul Weller continues the creative hot streak on the kaleidoscopic 66
Britpop's favourite grumpy uncle channels Bowie, Bacharach and Blur on 17th solo album
A beginners' guide to Buzzcocks in 10 songs of boredom, thwarted love and mid-life confusion
10 essential pop-punk classics from the band who wrote the book
"The standouts here rank alongside Radiohead's best": The Smile's Wall Of Eyes hops from wonky avant-samba groove to super-nimble math-rock gyration
Radiohead's breakaway trio The Smile return with psychedelic sambas and rule-bending jazz rock
"If you stormed in here and said the new record was rubbish, I would probably quit": Joe Strummer's struggle after The Clash
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
"A towering wedding cake of syrupy excess and Elvis-in-Vegas naffness": Dolly Parton's Rockstar is monumentally hideous, yet strangely glorious
Country queen Dolly Parton rocks out with McCartney, Halford, Tyler, Jett and a cast of thousands
Bowie on film: the stories behind 10 classic David Bowie movies
From The Man Who Fell To Earth to The Hunger, this is the best of David Bowie on the big screen
Sparks' album The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte is living proof that weirdness never gets old
The Mael brothers cement their autumnal resurgence with The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, a strong return to their former UK label
Depeche Mode's Memento Mori: a sonic feast and a fitting epitaph to departed friends
A post-Fletch Depeche Mode channel grief into deluxe autumnal electro-blues on fifteenth studio album Memento Mori
If unorthodox avant-punk noise-metal innovation is the question, Dinosaur Jr. are the answer
Four-album box set Puke + Cry: The Sire Years 1990-1997 celebrates J Mascis as face-melting guitar shredder supreme
Architects add power-glam polish to their arsenal on The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
Chart-topping metalcore monsters Architects return with extra arena-sized swagger on The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
Simple Minds's Direction Of The Heart: elder statesmen with nothing left to prove
Veteran Scot-rock stadium flouncers Simple Minds continue their autumnal purple patch with Direction Of The Heart
Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct album review
First album in eight years from the four hoarse men of the stadium-metal apocalypse
Metallica's Black Album reissue reinforces its place as one of rock's greatest albums
Metallica's The Black Album reissue goes from landmark to landmass in mammoth collection of over 24 hours' studio outtakes and a 53-track covers record
Bloodstock live review: How Megadeth got their groove back
Not yet ratedAfter years of ups and downs playing live, thrash pioneers Megadeth are back in startling form
Download Festival 2016: the big review
Not yet ratedHeavy rain, heavy rock and heavy hitters – Download Festival 2016 had it all. Here's the ultimate review featuring Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Rammstein
Megadeth at Bloodstock Open Air, Catton Hall, Derbyshire - live review
Not yet ratedAfter years of ups and downs playing live, the thrash pioneers are back in startling form
Epica's We Still Take You With Us collection may well bust your corset
We Still Take You With Us is a lavish archive box set from guitar-shredding Lowlanders Epica
