Martin Aston

On World AIDS Day 2017, this is for Patrick Cowley, Klaus Nomi and Michael Callen, three pioneers of queer popular music who were lost...

Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy is not only a brilliant pop song (matched by its fearless video - watch that here ) but a key factor in the...

Vaughan's name is alive.... Vaughan Oliver’s work with 4AD established him as one of the most influential Graphic Designers and Art...

I'd first interviewed Kristin Hersh in 1986, not long after Throwing Muses had released their startling debut album, on the day that the...

I thought the first translation would be Spanish, maybe French, but it turned out to be Russian...

One of the most essential, beautiful and moving songs in queer music history revamped by one of today's great queer voices in suitably...

"Anywhere Out Of The World: The Unique Vision of Dead Can Dance." With the release of Aion , The Serpent’s Egg  and Spiritchaser , Dead...

In the current issue of MOJO, 'The Ungrateful Dead', my feature on the reunited - for the third time! - Bauhaus, as "the godfather of...

Its incomparable strangeness, beauty and bravery will stun any one of any age in any era. On its 50th anniversary, I went track-by-track...

My 'Rising' feature on the Atlanta quartet Algiers is in the new MOJO (March 2020 edition, Joy Division on the cover). "Their fiery,...

In 1997, I reviewed David Bowie’s live show at London’s Hanover Grand for Q Magazine, where he launched his drum ’n’ bass-slanted...

Hard to believe, but Vaughan died, after a very short illness, on December 29th. RIP the genius, unique, mischievous, irrepressible,...

In 1992, after seeing Jeff Buckley playing at New York's tiny Sin-é Cafe, I was fortunate enough to do what turned out to be his first...

"Singer-Songwriter Emo" on the rise... if there is such a thing. I've interviewed two justifiably leading exponents for MOJO, Lucy Dacus...

In a special MOJO tribute, I interviewed John Lissauer, who looked back at the two Leonard Cohen albums that he produced, New Skin For...

It's only taken me 35 years to interview Michael Stipe, but finally, for a MOJO (Eyewitness) feature (December 2019 issue) on the story...

For MOJO, in spring 2019, I flew-drove to Mendocino in Northern California to look for the soul of the late GENE CLARK, who lived there...

Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division posted some lovely words on my book here

My story of post-punk pioneers Rema-Rema, who have - almost 40 years after they split - released their first album, the double vinyl/CD...

" The No-Boundaries Experimental Pop of Let’s Eat Grandma ": i interviewed the band's co-founders Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton for...