Niall Doherty
Niall Doherty is a writer and editor whose work can be found in Classic Rock, The Guardian, Music Week, FourFourTwo, Champions Journal, on Apple Music and more. Formerly the Deputy Editor of Q magazine, he co-runs the music Substack letter The New Cue with fellow former Q colleague Ted Kessler. He is also Reviews Editor at Record Collector. Over the years, he's interviewed some of the world's biggest stars, including Elton John, Coldplay, Radiohead, Liam and Noel Gallagher, Florence + The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode, Robert Plant and more.
Latest articles by Niall Doherty

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Released on September 9, 1996, R.E.M.'s New Adventures In Hi-Fi might be the band's last great album

By Niall Doherty Published
Often presumed to be inspired by Jimmy Page's fascination with the occult, Black Dog's origins were much more earthbound

By Paul Brannigan Published
Weezer promise that their forthcoming movie is "incredible"

By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Billy Corgan’s ambitions reached their zenith on Smashing Pumpkins' swollen 1995 double album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

By Niall Doherty Published
The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s

By Niall Doherty Published
Thom Yorke first performed the band’s much-loved 1995 single with his previous group Headless Chickens, and there’s video evidence

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How a night on the tiles in Paris with Radiohead in 2016 turned into something more special

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The grunge superstars learned a lot when they teamed up with the rock veteran to make his 1995 album, but they regret not putting their name on it

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Robert Smith and Reeves Gabrels got together in 1997 to rehearse for David Bowie’s 50th birthday gig, then hit the town to celebrate. Things got messy

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God bless The Jesus and Mary Chain

By Niall Doherty Published
What was meant to be a fresh start for the grunge giants ended up being the beginning of the end

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The story of the night that these electro-pop pioneers from Essex caused such carnage they made the US national news

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The Californian ska-pop quartet went supernova with Gwen Stefani's heartbreak anthems

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The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and Cure leader went on to become fast friends

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Why we all need to put down our phone and pick up a glass of gin

By Niall Doherty Published
The grunge stars who made their experimental record in the face of one of the most harrowing periods of their career

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This 1986 single pushed these Essex trailblazers into a whole new realm and they never looked back

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With input from Trent Reznor and Ice Cube, I'm Afraid Of Americans was rescued from Showgirls ignominy and given a prescient, unnerving video

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How shock turned to rage and, years later, rage turned into one of this rock quartet's biggest hits

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The Manhattan quintet whose emergence in 2001 opened the floodgates for a whole new generation of guitar bands

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The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins is currently on the road with his Justin Hawkins’ Rides Again... Again! tour

By Niall Doherty Published
Billy Corgan & co. entered into a different realm with this all-time cut from Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

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Stipe had writer’s block on this Automatic For The People standout until a stroll round Seattle opened the floodgates for one of his band’s biggest anthems
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