Marc Burrows

Beauty. Pain. Catharsis. Whatever: Nirvana do MTV Unplugged

Thirty years after the release of the band's Unplugged in New York album, Marc Burrows explores the fraught session that saw Nirvana go acoustic before an audience of friends, peers, and, for some reason, Kate Moss

Hot Chip

Freakout/Release

Perennial miserablists still finding reasons to strut it funky

Erasure

Day-Glo (Based On A True Story)

An extensive re-working of 2020’s *The Neon* becomes an entirely new album, showcasing the 35-year-old synth pop group at their strangest and most experimental

Glasto Reminded Me How I Hate People, But Not As Much As I Hate Myself

Marc Burrows would have had a lovely time at Glastonbury were it not for the tens of thousands of other people and their flags and the reminder that snobbery often comes from self-loathing

Gary Numan

Intruder

Numan Prime returns with his nineteenth album, a reliably impressive package, finds Marc Burrows

Ed Dowie

The Obvious I

Ed Dowie's The Obvious I is nothing if not impeccably tasteful, finds Marc Burrows

The Anchoress

The Art Of Losing

With guest vocals from James Dean Bradfield (and drumming from Sterling Campbell, it's nonetheless Catherine Anne Davies's own production skills that make her second Anchoress album so special, finds Marc Burrows

Smashing Pumpkins

Cyr

Billy Corgan continues to be at once unstoppable force and immovable object, once more giving Smashing Pumpkins fans exactly what they didn't want – but perhaps what they did need

Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

Various

A tribute album, loving assembled by Hal Wilner, proves a patchy affair enlivened by highlights from Nick Cave and Kesha, finds Marc Burrows

Deftones

Ohms

Deftones are back with a record of raw, concentrated Deftonage, finds Marc Burrows

INTERVIEW: Brix Smith Start

Brix Smith Start opens up about the passing of Mark E Smith and the upcoming second album from her band the Extricated

Confessional Mode: An Interview With The Anchoress

“It's like flashing your tits at someone. You’re not really exposing yourself, you're trying to scare them off. That's a weird metaphor, isn’t it?” Marc Burrows speaks to The Anchoress

LIVE REPORT: Bis

Marc Burrows reports from London's the Lexington

The Smashing Pumpkins

Monuments To An Elegy

LIVE REPORT: Smashing Pumpkins

Marc Burrows heads down to Koko in London where Billy Corgan et al. are joined by Marilyn Manson

Critic’s Round-Up: Mark Kermode’s Favourite Albums

The film critic, television presenter and skiffle bassist sets aside his DVD stack to talk top records with Marc Burrows

Doing The Job Properly – An Interview With Mark Kermode

Marc Burrows speaks to the pre-eminent film critic about not making other peoples decisions, why film-makers don't make good friends, and his recent book Hatchet Job

Good Tidings & Bad Religion: 2013’s Christmas Albums Reviewed

Marc Burrows listens to one million seasonal releases so you don't have to

The Story Of Akim & Teddy Vann’s ‘Santa Claus Is A Black Man’

Forty years since the release of Akim & the Teddy Vann Production Company's 'Santa Claus Is A Black Man', Marc Burrows speaks to Akim about her father's work to empower and provide positive imagery for young black people in the US

Haim

Days Are Gone

Nirvana

In Utero (Reissue)

Dog Soldiers: New Model Army Interviewed

At the weekend veteran alternative rock band NMA scored their first hit album in 20 years. Marc Burrows talks to Justin Sullivan, frontman of the perennial outsiders

Anger Through Grace: Nicky Wire’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of their eleventh LP Rewind The Film, the Manic Street Preachers man scours his record collection for the list to end all lists

Smashing Pumpkins

The Aeroplane Flies High (Box Set Reissue)

Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire Reviews Rewind The Film

Manic Street Preachers' bassist and propagandist-in-chief Nicky Wire takes Marc Burrows through their new album track by track. Photographs courtesy of Alex Lake

LIVE REPORT: She Makes War

Marc Burrows is in attendance as Laura Kidd headlines her travelling club night in solo guise

LIVE REPORT: Sound City Players

Dave Grohl's Sound City Players supergroup comes to London for a night of ROCK by MEN and their MAN friends of ROCK. It's a bit meh, says Marc Burrows

Marianne Faithfull

Broken English (reissue)

The Smashing Pumpkins

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (reissue)

Manic Street Preachers

Generation Terrorists (reissue)

The Lovely Eggs

Wildlife

Darren Hayman And The Long Parliament

The Violence