Originally appeared on mixonline.com

By Craig Dalton

THE CRAFT OF MUSIC AND LIVE SOUND

A name synonymous with rock ‘n’ roll for more than 35 years, you would expect a Robert Plant show to sound technically good. After all, who’s had more resources and access to the best skilled audio professionals in the world? As in the past, Plant’s performances were put in the hands of sound reinforcement masters with years of experience. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in East Valley Tribune
By Paul Giblin, Tribune

Rock ’n’ roll legend Robert Plant is giving a whole lotta loot to a Carefree-based charitable organization that works in west Africa. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared on BBC online–Berkshire
By Linda Serck

We spoke to Robert Plant before his performance at WOMAD 2005.

Plant opened his set at WOMAD with current band Strange Sensation with Led Zeppelin’s song No Quarter. The second song he played was theenew single off current album The Mighty Rearranger, called Shine it all around. They also played Black Dog, and ended with Whole Lotta Love. So the crowd could still “get zepped” at WOMAD while listening to Robert Plant, even though he’s moved on from that period. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Lost Angeles Times
By Richard Cromelin, Times Staff Writer

In “Tin Pan Valley,” a new song Robert Plant offered Sunday at the Greek Theatre outlining his effort to escape the pull of nostalgia, the former Led Zeppelin front man sang “My peers may flirt with cabaret, some fake the rebel yell.” ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Union-Tribune
By George Varga UNION-TRIBUNE POP MUSIC CRITIC

It’s a sad reality that too many still-active rock ‘n’ roll legends from the 1960s and 1970s are content to keep living in the past, on record and in concert, the better to please nostalgia-hungry fans and keep raking in the big bucks.

But not former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, who regards moving forward as an artistic and personal imperative. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Globe and Mail, page R1
By BRAD WHEELER

Robert Plant tells BRAD WHEELER he isn’t interested in exploiting his status as one of the seriously important musicians of his era. But some critics can still hear the Led in his new African rhythms ||Continue reading||

From stuff.co.nz
by Grant Smithies

Robert Plant spends his days trying to avoid what’s expected of him. And it’s resulted in his best work in 30 years. ||Continue reading||

originally published in The Sun (UK)
By THOMAS WHITAKER–Showbiz Reporter

LED Zeppelin legend Robert Plant has told how he gets in the mood to rock — by ironing. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Radio Times (UK) May 14-20 issue.

Robert Plant’s still a rocker, but these days, he gets his kicks from rugs. Mark Ellen joins him on the carpet.

Imagine a stage festooned with burning bouquets of incense, and the whole place smelling like a Marrakech knocking-shop.

Imagine the singers’ pointy-toed, cuban-heeled boots. Imagine African drums and mandolins, and winking banks of computers full of hip-hop samples. And imagine this being applied, not just to his sterling new hybrid of world music and rock’n’ roll, but to five songs “from the last century,” as he put it, Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog, Gallows Pole, When the Levee Breaks, That’s the Way, and Whole Lotta Love.And the singer swirling in the mist on his beloved Moroccan carpet without spilling a drop of his chamomile tea. ||Continue reading||

Originally Published in Entertainment Weekly
by Dalton Ross

Robert Plant is back with an intriguing new CD. What better time to ask about nasty band spats and what he really thinks of “Stairway to Heaven.”

Robert Plant has sold millions of records, tapes, eight-tracks, CDs and DVDs over the past 36 years. The former Led Zeppelin front man is what you’d call a rock legend. So it’s a bit odd to see him moving about Bleeker Bob’s record store in Manhattan like any record geek, perusing everything from blues-funk favorite Johnny “Guitar” Watson to ‘60s garage one-hit wonders Count Five. “I could spend all day in here,” he sighs. “I used to live in 10-cent stores.” ||Continue reading||