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Things Can Only Get Better For Howard Jones

January 29, 2020January 30, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment Beating Mr. Neg, Cross That Line, Dream Into Action, Electronic new wave, Everlasting Love, Howard Jones, Howard Jones Acoustic Trio Tour, Human’s Lib, Life in One Day, Like to Get to Know You Well, New Song, Nick Beggs, No One Is to Blame, One to One, Robin Boult, Stranger Things, Things Can Only Get Better, What Is Love?

Catching up with the synthpop pioneer as he embarks on a winter tour of the States

Pop

Engelbert Humperdinck: Aloha from L.A.

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment Engelbert Humperdinck, Gerry Dorsey, Reflections, Ten Guitars, The Last Waltz, Toby Keith

An exclusive chat with your nonna’s favorite singer

Holiday Pop

Feed The World: Band Aid “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” at 35

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 1984, 35th Anniversary, Band Aid, Bob Geldof, Do They Know It's Christmas?, Midge Ure, The Boomtown Rats, Ultravox

An exclusive chat with Midge Ure on co-writing the all-star charity single

Holiday Pop

A Neverending Yuletide: Xmas With Limahl

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Christmas In London, Culture Club, Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo, Limahl, Stranger Things, The Eurythmics, The Neverending Story, Too Shy

Following a career resurgence thanks to retro television, the former Kajagoogoo singer celebrates the holiday season with new single “London For Christmas”

Comedy Heavy Metal

Hellfire and Hilarity: Inside The Black Metal Comedy of Witch Taint

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Black Metal, Darkthrone, Dave Hill, Fenriz, Mayhem, Norway, Oslo, Phil Costello, Saihttam, St. Vitus Bar, Wacken, Witch Taint

Dave Hill and Phil Costello channel their inner Saihttam on this wild lampoon of loud rock’s most misunderstood genre

Hard Rock Pop

Rise To It: Hot In The Shade by Kiss Turns 30

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 1989, Bruce Kulick, Eric Carr, Gene Simmons, Hot In The Shade, Kiss, Michael Bolton, Paul Stanley

An exclusive interview with former guitarist Bruce Kulick about the most polarizing LP of the Non-Makeup Era

Folk Rock

Joseph Arthur Comes Back to the World

October 25, 2019October 28, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment 2019, Alejandro Escovedo, Arthur Buck, Ben Harper, Better Than Ezra, Big City Secrets, Come Back World, Come to where I'm grom, Greg Dulli, Jesse Malin, Joseph Arthur, Kevin Griffin, Marc Cohn, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Rosanna Arquette

The New York singer-songwriter gets personal on his 14th studio album

Post-Punk Psychedelics

Swans Mean Business

October 21, 2019October 24, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor 3 Comments DNA, James Chance, Jennifer Gira, Larry Junstrom, Larry Mullins, Leaving Meaning, Lydia Lunch, Mars, Michael Gira, Suicide, Swans, Swans leaving meaning, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, The Contortions, The Hanging Man, Young God Records

The RNR Globe’s exclusive chat with Michael Gira on his longtime collective’s 15th LP Leaving Meaning