David Bennun

30 Years On: Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction Revisited

Guns N' Roses were not nice people. Appetite For Destruction is an extraordinary, and ugly, and sensational album that could not conceivably have been made by anyone other than awful people, says David Bennun

Thank You For The Music: Arcade Fire Live At York Hall

Arcade Fire were once in the business of anthems - now they're in the business of bangers. David Bennun is seduced and overwhelmed.

Spiritualized: From Serene Restraint To Deranged Maximalism In Five Years

In the five years from the release of Lazer Guided Melodies in 1992, Spiritualized journeyed to the outer limits with Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. David Bennun traces their journey

How The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Lived Down To Their Name

Why is it so difficult to revisit the strident political albums of one's youth? David Bennun returns to the once inflammatory Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury and finds it’s so much smaller now, and didn't it all used to be fields around here?

How Fleetwood Mac Invented Goth, By David Bennun

David Bennun casts his eye back over Rumours, Tusk and Tango In The Night and rediscovers a band who hid their dark, experimental tendencies in plain sight behind a triumvirate of ubiquitous AOR albums

Cast Off Thy Smartphone & Be Healed: Debunking The Digital Detox

It's that time of year when all sorts of snake oil salespeople fill our lives with guilt and shame with diet plans, dry January and, most recently, the idea of a digital detox. David Bennun stares gleefully into a glowing screen to tell them what for

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize: An Odious, Tokenistic Insult To Pop

Yesterday Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, prompting much wailing & gnashing of the teeth. David Bennun argues this was a patronising affront to the noble art of pop

Where You Lead: Carole King & The Lifespans Of Pop Music

As well as being cause for an emotional outpouring in Hyde Park on Sunday night, the singer-songwriter-in-chief's revisiting of the Tapestry album, says David Bennun, is emblematic of a musical moment we won't see again

You Might Just Be An Unwitting Apologist For Racism If…!

Impecunious music critic David Bennun is plotting a career change into stand up comedy and asked us if he could try out his new routine on you, our readers. As it's sunny out we decided to give him the floor...

Things Learned At: Mutations Festival

David Bennun ventures around his hometown of Brighton to discover his favourite new guitarist and have his hearing annihilated by Lightning Bolt

45 Years On: Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Revisited

Joni Mitchell risked everything; she had a career of "unparalleled audacity" says David Bennun when reassessing The Hissing Of Summer Lawns some 45 years later

LIVE REPORT: ESG

David Bennun reports from Sticky Mike's Frog Bar in Brighton.

Blank Realm

Illegals In Heaven

Tame Impala

Currents

Neil Young

The Monsanto Years

Revisiting Curtis Mayfield’s There’s No Place Like America Today

David Bennun looks back 45 years at a much underrated Curtis Mayfield album

LIVE REPORT: Laibach

Laibach sally forth once again to conquer Europe with their arch and deviantly humourous electronic rock. David Bennun is on hand to offer fervent praise

LIVE REPORT: The Unthanks

"One of the most discreetly radical things you may currently hear upon a stage". David Bennun reports from the Brighton Dome

25 Years On: Tricky’s Maxinquaye Revisited

David Bennun interviewed Tricky several times for Melody Maker in the 1990s and reviewed Maxinquaye on its release. He assesses how his relationship to this landmark album has changed over the intervening decades

Scorched Earth: The The’s Mind Bomb Revisited

Matt Johnson may have set out to blow your mind on The The's third LP in 1989 - but the effects ended up being much more devastating, says David Bennun

Why Me Lord? American Recordings By Johnny Cash Revisited

Two and a half decades on, David Bennun looks back at the monumental importance American Recordings had on the career of Johnny Cash

Wreath Lecture: Braying Crowds & The Accidental Death of Quiet Music

2013 was the year when crowds talking loudly at gigs became a universal aggravation, writes David Bennun. He asks why this is the case, and bids a fond farewell to quiet music in the live arena

“Magnificent, Fascinating & Appalling”: The Birth Of A Nation Revisited

David Bennun re-examines D.W. Griffith's troubling silent masterpiece and discovers some disturbing parallels with the current state of the American right

30 Years On: Lovesexy By Prince Revisited

David Bennun celebrates Prince's last statement of pure genius three decades later

Ain’t No Cure For Love: Leonard Cohen’s I’m Your Man 30 Years On

David Bennun studies one of his favourite albums three decades on and finds it more mentor than friend

A Town Called Walker: Point Blank Reappraised

To coincide with the BFI's John Boorman season - and in advance of its screening at the BFI tonight, Friday 29th March - David Bennun casts his steely gaze over the director's Point Blank, starring the unstoppable Lee Marvin

Don Cameraro: McCullin Reviewed

David Bennun watches Jacqui and David Morris's documentary about war photographer Don McCullin, which is currently on theatrical release

10cc

Tenology (Box Set)

LIVE REPORT: Public Enemy

Public Enemy show Brighton and David Bennun why they're still one of the mightiest rock & roll bands on the planet. Picture by Maria Jefferis of Shot2bits

Lupe Fiasco

Food & Liquor II The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Album Reissues

Design Language: Eames: The Architect And The Painter Reviewed

David Bennun admires the work of husband and wife designers Charles and Ray Eames, subjects of a feature profile on UK theatrical release this week