Rock and Roll Globe

Night Ranger: Still Motoring After All These Years

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments ATBPO, Brad Gillis, Frontiers Music Srl, Jack Blades, Kelly Keagy, Night Ranger, Sister Christian

Drummer Kelly Keagy checks in from the band’s current tour

Power Pop Rock

LISTEN: Matthew Sweet Talks Girlfriend 30 Years Later

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Girlfriend, Greg Leisz, Ivan Julian, Lloyd Cole, Matthew Sweet, Richard Lloyd, Robert Quine, Zoo Entertainment

The alternative rock great chats exclusively with Rock & Roll Globe about his forever masterpiece

Punk Remembrance Rockabilly

Aloha From Hell: Lux Interior Turns 75

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Alex Chilton, Flamejob, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy, RIP, Smell of Female, Songs The Lord Taught Us, Stay Sick!, The Cramps

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on his years in conversation with the dearly departed Cramps frontman

Beatle

The Last Secret of The Beatles

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Beatles, Brian Epstein, George Harrison, John Lennon, Neil Aspinall, Paul McCartney, Pete Best, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Why was Pete Best really fired?

Music Journalism Stones

Brown Sugar, How Come You Taste So Bad?

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 1971, Bill Wyman, Brown Sugar, Charlie Watts, controversy, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, racism, slavery, Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones

Assessing why the Stones cut their controversial 50-year-old hit single from the set list of the band’s current tour

New Wave

Story of the Ghost: Celebrating 40 Years of a Classic Police Album

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, A&M Records, Andy Summers, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Ghost in the Machine, Hugh Padgham, Invisible Sun, Spirits in the Material World, Stewart Copeland, Sting, The Police

1981’s Ghost in the Machine underscores the trio’s fast ascent to superstar success

Blues New Wave Remembrance

Money Never Changed Tom Gray

October 18, 2021October 19, 2021 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Bonnie Bramlett, Carlene Carter, Cyndi Lauper, Delta Moon, Manfred Mann, Money Changes Everything, RIP, Steve Lillywhite, The Brains, Tom Gray

The hit songwriter, lap-steel wizard and unsung hero of the New Wave era was 70

Rock

Eagles Take Flight Once Again Amid Uncertain Skies

October 18, 2021October 21, 2021 Stephanie Hernandez 1 Comment 1976, Already Gone, Asylum Records, Deacon Frey, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Hotel California, Joe Walsh, Take It Easy, The Eagles, Timothy B. Schmit, Vince Gill, Witchy Woman

Rebooting Hotel California tour in a not-quite-post-pandemic world

Punk

The Argument for Fugazi’s Best Record

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Ryan Bray 0 Comments 2001, Brendan Canty, Dischord Records, Don Zientara, Fugazi, Guy Picciotto, Ian MacKaye, Joe Lally, Punk, September 11, The Argument, Washington D.C.

The D.C. band’s farewell wasn’t the ending anyone wanted, but it’s the best we could have ever hoped for

Folk North Americana

ALBUMS: Dar Williams Promises to Meet Us There

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, BMG, Cold Spring, Dar Williams, folk, I'll Meet You Here, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Renew Records, Upstate NY

It’s a rendezvous well worth the wait

Art Pop New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance

New York Musicians Pay Homage To Dee Pop

October 14, 2021October 15, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bush Tetras, CBGB, Cynthia Sley, Dee Pop, James Keepnews, Michael Imperioli, Mike Edison, Mike Pride, New York City, Pat Place, William Parker

Several friends and collaborators from the the city’s punk and jazz scenes took to social media to bid farewell to the influential Bush Tetras drummer

Hard Rock Heavy Metal New Wave

Quadruple Your Pleasure: Technical Ecstasy Gets An Overdue Upgrade

October 14, 2021October 19, 2021 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 1976, 2021, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Box Set, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Rhino Records, Super Deluxe, Technical Ecstasy, Tony Iommi, Vertigo Records

Black Sabbath’s maligned seventh album deserves the super deluxe treatment

African Pop

A Queens Boy Under African Skies: Paul Simon Is 80

October 13, 2021October 20, 2021 Ron Hart 1 Comment 1986, 80th birthday, Ali Farka Toure, Dollar Brand, Fela Kuti, Graceland, Johnny Clegg & Savuka, King Sunny Ade, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Orchestra Baobab, Paul Simon, Warner Bros.

How Graceland helped guide me to a lifelong love for global music

Music Journalism

Le Tigre v. Barry Mann: Who Owns the Bomp?

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Barry Mann, Bomp! Records, Deceptacon, Frankie Lymon, Gerry Goffin, Greg Shaw, Jesse Winchester, Le Tigre, Legal, Who Put The Bomp

A new court case aims to settle who holds proprietorship over the most defining example of rock ‘n’ roll onomatopoeia in pop history

Art Pop Experimental Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Punk Rock Docs

The Velvet Goldmine of Todd Haynes

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, Apple TV+, documentary, John Cale, Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, Sterling Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes

The acclaimed director talks with Rock & Roll Globe about his upcoming Velvet Underground documentary premiering on Apple TV+

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