John Robb

The Trenchcoat Mafia: John Robb’s History Of Goth Reviewed

A new history of all things goth is a labour of love, finds Richard Foster

There Is No Perimeter: John Robb Of The Membranes Interviewed

John Robb met up with John Doran in Manchester recently to talk the Higgs Boson, trilobites, dub, death, love and the spectacular rebirth of the Membranes

This Is War: John Robb Of Goldblade Interviewed

As Goldblade prepare to unleash their ferocious sixth album, The Terror of Modern Life, Ged Babey asks mob orator John Robb why the Punk Rock Wars will never be over. Contains a stream of four new Goldblade tracks

Like A Machine Destroying Everything: Monkey Island Interviewed Part One

Stevie Chick interviews Peter Bennett of Monkey Island, one of the greatest live groups ever and reistors to the gonzoid foofaraw of the music biz

C86 And All That: The 25th Anniversary

Jim Keoghan explains why the C86 cassette compilation has a far more important legacy in independent music than just giving rise to jangly indie-pop

In Search Of Protest Singers & Dorian Lynskey’s 33 Revolutions Per Minute Reviewed

Jim Keoghan asks Billy Bragg, John Robb and Dorian Lynskey whether the protest singer is becoming prevalent once more, while John Doran reviews the latter's new tome 33 Revolutions Per Minute

iPad Therefore I Am: Why John Robb’s New Device Is The Apple Of His Eye

John Robb explains why you can be a punk _and_ like Apple's latest shiny gadget - indeed, they actually go hand-in-hand...

An Extract From John Robb’s Manchester Music City 1976-1996

Blackpool’s Little Boots Interviewed By John Robb

Seeing as he grew up in the same town and went to the same college, we sent Brother John Robb to interview Little Boots for us

Why Fucked Up Show Punk Rock Is In Rude Health, By John Robb

Suave and piratical punk rocker John Robb casts the goat's entrails across the linoleum and foresees a genre reborn

Black Sky Thinking: The Credit Crunch Is Good For Rock n’Roll

The Tories are gloating over the Crewe by-election, the economy is sinking down Alistair Darling's plughole and we can't afford to eat. But, says Brother John Robb, this might just rescue us from insipid indie

Black Sky Thinking: All Rock & Roll Is Tory