Rob Sheffield

All-time classics, buried treasures, cult favorites, and one-hit wonders — from Prince and Duran Duran to Kate Bush and the Go-Go’s to the Replacements and R.E.M.

The pop culture icon could hop from genre to genre, but she threw herself into every style with the same effervescent hyper-glitz enthusiasm

“People often greatly underestimate how much I will inconvenience myself to prove a point,” she tells director Mike Mills

Former Ought members tell how they regrouped for a new kind of Canadian art-rock deliverance

Pop spectacles, Springsteen’s marathon, Left Shark and loads of soul revues – we’ve seen ’em all

New deluxe set ‘Kid A Mnesia’ presents ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ as two halves of the same groundbreaking musical statement

The Swedish super troopers haven’t lost their appetite for emotional-crisis soundtracks

‘Rolling Stone’ writer Rob Sheffield moved to New York in 2000, settling near the World Trade Center. After the towers fell, he navigated a haunted city with a Walkman full of Dylan and…

There are ecstasies that can only happen in loud, sweaty rooms. That’s why this is the moment music fans have spent 18 months dreaming about

Rob Sheffield weighs in on the CNN documentary about the late, great queen of Eighties’ schtup-and-shop literary trashterpieces