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There’s A Riot Goin’ On: Ice Cube’s The Predator Revisited

Twenty years after its release in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, John Freeman looks back at the anger that fuelled Ice Cube’s greatest solo album

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Dreams Of Rain: The Sisters Of Mercy’s Floodland 25 Years On

Twenty five years on Julian Marszalek revisits Andrew Eldritch's all out bid for chart success and asks, was it worth it

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A Strange Love: Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the career-defining, America-conquering album that saw the Essex quartet perfect their brand of "electronic metal"

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Incestuous Unions: Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back on a life-changing debut record bursting with darkness, death and illicit sex and brilliant pop songs

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A Broken Frame At 30: A Tour Of Depeche Mode’s Basildon

Tim Burrows gets to grips with Depeche Mode's second album via a fan coach tour of Basildon, and has a run in with some escaped pigs on the way. Tour pics by Hayley Hatton

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25 Years On: The Debut Of Jane’s Addiction Revisited

A quarter of a century after the release of Jane’s Addiction, John Freeman reflects on why the truly great live band’s debut album left him wanting more

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John Robb On Massive Attack’s Blue Lines – 21 Years On

Sharp dressed man of punk rock John Robb casts his eye back two decades to the birth of something special

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Fearful Parties: The Associates’ Sulk 30 Years On

Joseph Burnett is a synth pop late adopter and in Sulk he found the epiphany he'd been waiting for

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30 Years On: The Dreaming By Kate Bush

Matt Lindsay gets to grips with the overlooked masterpiece that is The Dreaming

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25 Years On: Def Leppard’s Hysteria Revisited

25 years on, our Orange County correspondent Ned Raggett eulogizes the 20 million selling high point in the Leps' career

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Synthesizer Soul: Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s 30 Years On

On the 30th anniversary of its release, Vince Clarke tells John Freeman how Yazoo’s groundbreaking debut album was all about "the singing and the tunes"

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50 States Of Mind: Ride Discuss Going Blank Again, 30 Years On

In 1992, Ride released Going Blank Again, the record that saw them emerge from Nowhere's swirls into more pop territory. Joe Clay speaks to Andy Bell, Loz Colbert, Mark Gardner and Steve Queralt about the lost classic

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Young Limbs And Numb Hymns: The History Of The Batcave Club

Val Siebert speaks to members of Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Specimen and Foetus about Soho's original gothic haunt

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Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction – 25 Years On

Jimmy Martin examines the perfect storm of raunch, repulsiveness and riffs that went into "the greatest hard rock record of the 80s"

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EPMD’s Business Never Personal Revisited 20 Years On

Angus Batey speaks to Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith about EPMD's underrated fourth album

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Little Earthquakes By Tori Amos, 20 Years On

Two decades since the release of Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes, Maxine Frances Roper looks back over an album that remains inimitable

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“Nijinsky Meets Woolworths”: Ziggy Stardust, 40 Years On

As David Bowie's classic hits its fifth decade and gets a deluxe reissue, Matthew Lindsay takes an in-depth look at the significance of the wonderful creation that was Mr Ziggy Stardust

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20 Years On: Eric B And Rakim’s Don’t Sweat The Technique Revisited

Eric B & Rakim's farewell album from 1992 now stands to be considered as their best, argues Angus Batey

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Copper Blue 20 Years On: Sugar’s Bob Mould Interviewed

Bob Mould gives a full and frank account of the making of the album that established his post-Hüsker Dü career to Julian Marszalek

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Voices From Valhalla: Quorthon’s Bathory Revisited

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Bathory's seminal third album Under the Sign of the Black Mark, one of the blueprints for black metal. As the Godreah label prepare to release a tribute to Bathory's late mastermind Quorthon, Steve Earles speaks to label head Crin about his influence

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There’s A Riot Goin’ On: Ice Cube’s The Predator Revisited

Dreams Of Rain: The Sisters Of Mercy’s Floodland 25 Years On

A Strange Love: Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses Revisited

Incestuous Unions: Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim Revisited

A Broken Frame At 30: A Tour Of Depeche Mode’s Basildon

25 Years On: The Debut Of Jane’s Addiction Revisited

John Robb On Massive Attack’s Blue Lines – 21 Years On

Fearful Parties: The Associates’ Sulk 30 Years On

30 Years On: The Dreaming By Kate Bush

25 Years On: Def Leppard’s Hysteria Revisited

Synthesizer Soul: Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s 30 Years On

50 States Of Mind: Ride Discuss Going Blank Again, 30 Years On

Young Limbs And Numb Hymns: The History Of The Batcave Club

Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction – 25 Years On

EPMD’s Business Never Personal Revisited 20 Years On

Little Earthquakes By Tori Amos, 20 Years On

“Nijinsky Meets Woolworths”: Ziggy Stardust, 40 Years On

20 Years On: Eric B And Rakim’s Don’t Sweat The Technique Revisited

Copper Blue 20 Years On: Sugar’s Bob Mould Interviewed

Voices From Valhalla: Quorthon’s Bathory Revisited

25 Years On: The Young Gods’ Debut Revisited

“Don’t Question Everything” – Levitation’s Need For Not Revisited

Cherry Ice Cream Smiles: Duran Duran’s Rio Revisited

Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of Glassworks By Philip Glass

40 Years On: We Return To The Birthday Party’s Junkyard

30 Years On: Revisiting Pavement’s Slanted And Enchanted

Equal Rights By Peter Tosh: Revisiting The Masterpiece 35 Years On

30 Years On: Christ The Album By Crass Revisited

Colour Me Peach & Black: Prince’s Sign O’ The Times, 25 Years On

20 Years On: Ultramagnetic MCs’ Funk Your Head Up

No Regrets – 25 Years Of The Butthole Surfers’ Locust Abortion Technician

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