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Mark Coles is the English presenter of the BBC World Service programme World of Music. For Access All Areas Trevor Reekie converses with Mark about the wonderful world of radio, gleans a few… Read more Audio

Storm Thorgerson designed the album covers for some of rock's biggest artists including most of the Pink Floyd covers, Led Zeppelin, Mars Volta, Muse, Peter Gabriel and Anthrax. Storm never shied away… Read more Audio

Saul Hudson aka Slash needs little introduction. Suffice to say this British-born American musician has reinvented himself since the heady days of Guns N Roses. The new Slash is clean, sober and has a… Read more Audio

Trevor Reekie celebrates Propeller Records 30th Anniversary - this iconic local label released a small avalanche of iconic bands including post-punksters the Spelling Mistakes, the Screaming MeeMees… Read more Audio

Jennifer Batten broke through the walls of sexual stereotype in the male dominated rock industry. She has played sold out stadiums all around the world as the guitarist with Michael Jackson and later… Read more Audio

Long before Autotune became the trendy vocal-effect-of-choice there was the Vocoder. Invented in 1928 to protect telephone conversations from eavesdropping, the Vocoder was soon adopted by like… Read more Audio

All-female rock band The Runaways had a brief, crash-and-burn history in the mid to late '70s, which has just been made into a Hollywood movie. The band's manager and producer Kim Fowley calls himself… Read more Audio

Arhoolie Records remains one of the great American record labels - an Independent folk and blues label formed by Californian high school teacher Chris Strachwitz in 1960. Strachwitz originally started… Read more Audio

Arhoolie Records remains one of the great American record labels - an Independent folk and blues label formed by Californian high school teacher Chris Strachwitz in 1960. Strachwitz originally started… Read more Audio

Blues and Jazz pianist-singer and songwriter Mose Allison died at home on 15th November, 2016, aged 89. He was a respected musician who delivered lines like “Your mind is on vacation, while your… Read more Video, Audio

World music artists have a unique perspective and motivation that sustains their work ethic, their message and their individual business models. At WOMAD 2010 Trevor Reekie discovered there was a… Read more Audio

Kerrang! was the premiere metal magazine in the 1980s and the newly published book 'Appetite For Destruction: The Mick Wall Interviews', collects thirty-one of Wall's interviews from 1984 to 1994 each… Read more Audio