Time was you couldn't swing a cat in the charts without hitting an all girl-group, but thank heavens for Atomic Kitten--the feisty pussies grabbed the collective pop world by the privates and...
If George Michael sold his soul to get out of his Sony contract, he must have found a new one in the DreamWorks studios. On his first album in six years--he spent the interim in court with his old...
Although it was less commercially successful than 1985's MIKE AND THE MECHANICS or 1989's THE LIVING YEARS, 1991's WORD OF MOUTH is nonetheless a fine pop-rock album. Mike Rutherford and his...
Of course, it all comes down to whether you can stand Danny McNamara's voice. Touted as the New Oasis (two Northern brothers in love with rock's classic years, one plays guitar and one sings),...
Ferry has proved himself to be surprisingly durable. From his roots in arch art-rockers Roxy Music in the 1970s, to his appearance on the BBC's Millennium Show performing his languorous cover of...
It's no coincidence that UB40's biggest hits and most pleasurable songs have been their reggae rock remakes of other acts' songs--Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine", Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe", the...
Unlike those of the other members of her family, Janet Jackson's albums are still worth waiting for. The best parts of All for You, her first disc since 1997's The Velvet Rope, continue to display...
A key record of the 1990s, Exit Planet Dust invented the big-beat style that dominated British dance music in the second half of the decade, and it still sounds superb in its own right....