Luke Haines

When Covid rampaged through the world like a Viking raid of death-cult realtors, the world was suddenly shorn of live music

Peter Jackson’s new movie shows fans everywhere would swoon, but maybe they should just let it be

I tend to associate Christmas music with the records I received as gifts when I was a kid

In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry

Where there’s pop, there’s hype — and there’s nothing wrong with that

It’s a real shame the Christmas flexis have not had a proper, all-on-one album release

Farewell to the father of reggae

Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…

By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast

Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out

‘Motörhead, remember me now’

Raising the goblet of rock

Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites Deluxe LPs by Buzzcocks reviewed

The White Album is reissued at 50

There is only one thing wrong with the 50 th Anniversary edition of this wonderful album, and that is that it is all too prescient

Unless you have been sleeping under a barricade or a pile of Molotov cocktails it will not have escaped your attention that we — that is, a few broadsheets and BBC4 — have been having a good old think about the events of 1968. When student rioting brought France to its knees and the revolution

I am, to paraphrase myself, ‘a freethinking middle aged rock ‘n’ roller, still on the toilet circuit hoping it’s a good walk-up.’ Actually, unless I live to be 99 the bit about being middle aged is rather optimistic. Tomorrow it is my half century birthday, but today I hit the road with my Scottish tour