Lee Evans is not remotely funnyIN MY HUMBLE OPINION: EVERYTHING ABOUT Lee Evans is “record breaking”.Tue Oct 19 2010 - 01:00
Industry glee at X Factor instant downloading success on musicREVOLVER: THERE may be more Beatles reissues than you can shake a stick at these daysFri Oct 15 2010 - 01:00
When comics make mapsWHEN YANKO Tsvetkov, a Bulgarian designer and illustrator, was trying to explain to a friend the complex social, political and…Wed Oct 13 2010 - 01:00
Poll-topping Muse guitar riff would drive you to therapy revolver on musicEVERYONE has a musical blind spot. And if you don’t have one, you should.Fri Oct 08 2010 - 01:00
Shameless Lennon merchandising can't dim a truly iconic talentREVOLVER: ‘THE John Lennon Edition is based on John Lennon’s genius, reflecting his iconic status through the creation of a …Fri Oct 01 2010 - 01:00
Gimme, gimme some truthNOSTALGIA: THE ABBEY ROAD recording studio is like the TardisSat Sept 25 2010 - 01:00
Could Google Music herald the end of online war of the worlds?REVOLVER: ANONYMOUS terror groups, legitimate targets, reprisals, counter-reprisals – it’s all kicking off in cyberspace between…Fri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00
Low note shows that three basses aren't better than oneREVOLVER: WITH BAND members responsible for songs including Love Will Tear Us Apart, How Soon Is Now?, Fools Gold and Blue Monday…Fri Sept 17 2010 - 01:00
'Fancy a walk in the park with an old man?'For Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin was ‘something fantastic’ – but multimillion-pound offers to re-form are not going to tempt him…Sat Sept 11 2010 - 01:00
The xx hit the Mercury spot, but the concept's wrong for next gongFor the first time ever, the runaway favourite for the Mercury Prize has prevailedFri Sept 10 2010 - 01:00
The pleasure of their company: we've nothing to feel guilty aboutREVOLVER: THIS WEEK you find us in Princes Street Gardens, a verdant expanse directly below Edinburgh’s stunning castleFri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
The making of a Rotten public imageTo be told ‘I’m your mother’ by a complete stranger was a very, very strange thing, says John Lydon of the meningitis that cost…Tue Aug 31 2010 - 01:00
From office parties to the GrammysAn unlikely encounter between Jools Holland and a man in a pub in Sheffield set Imelda May on the way to a rewarding career after…Sat Aug 28 2010 - 01:00
Parental Advisory: this column contains explicit contentREVOLVER: ONCE upon a time there was an Irish-American rapper called EamonFri Aug 27 2010 - 01:00
Scouting for goals: the acts at the top of the Premiership chartsREVOLVER: IF, as Shoot magazine would tell us, the favourite food of footballers was once steak and chips, their taste in music…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
Yo, here's a vulnerable snap of my iPhoneNew research gives iPhone users another reason to be smug, finding they are the most successful at online datingSat Aug 14 2010 - 01:00
Right-wing musicians fight for their right to tea partyREVOLVER: FROM THE coffee shops of Greenwich Village to the main stages of today’s biggest music festivals, popular music still…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
'Freedom' is more than just a wordFrom turning his back on an academic career in literature to work on an oil rig, to suffering censorship because of his political…Sat Aug 07 2010 - 01:00
It's me, Kate Bush, I've come home: the woman behind the mythREVOLVER: ‘IT’S A dangerous game, idealising the unknownFri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
How does it feel, to be on your own?After 20 years in the business, Jakob Dylan has no hang ups about his father. He’s just released his second solo albumSat Jul 31 2010 - 01:00
Thirty years on, 4AD still the label to beat for indie excellenceREVOLVER: IF ANY label could throw out 30 quality albums from its back catalogue to celebrate its 30th anniversary, it’s 4AD…Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
'Don't make me sound too spacey'Richard Ashcroft can talk you under the table on anything from psychology to Cubism to football. But he does so with charmSat Jul 24 2010 - 01:00
Time for the Mercury to get radical or get redundantREVOLVER: TIME FOR the Mercury to gather up its rag-bag of confused and incoherent musical belongings and slink off into the…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
Mercury's credibility on the line after Speech Debelle debacleREVOLVER: IT’S CRUNCH time for the Mercury Music PrizeFri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
In at No 1: it's Tinie Tempah ft Labrinth ft Rihanna ft Snoop ft . . .REVOLVER: I’VE JUST had my biannual look at what’s in the singles chartsFri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
The fine art of busting taboosFrom the inner monologues of ‘Peep Show’ to the comic incompetence of the suicide bombers in ‘Four Lions’, Sam Bain and Jesse…Thu Jun 17 2010 - 01:00
Heroin, tea and hangers-on: how the Stones lived as exiles in France‘The wild nights, the orgies, the drug-takingFri May 21 2010 - 01:00
Match of the Day is Top of the Pops. Over to you, GaryDo you ever listen to the Match of the Day theme song and think “this rousing anthem is an example of classic BBC post-war consensus…Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
'I get offered a lot of hugs after the show'Simon Amstell cut his teeth with a sarcastic interview style that bewildered his pop-star guests, but he’s at his best using …Thu May 13 2010 - 01:00
The Rolling StonesCD OF THE WEEK: Exile on Main Street (Deluxe Edition) Polydor ****Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Out of Belgium'sfrying panHIDDEN GEM: DID YOU KNOW that French fries (or chips, if you must) should really be called Belgian fries and that the mistake…Sat May 01 2010 - 01:00
Smartphone apps? Don't leave home without themIN TRANSIT: IT USED TO BE that you’d have to ransack the house looking for your guidebook – which was probably already out of…Sat Apr 24 2010 - 01:00