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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

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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

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Famous Quotes Vol. 24: October 2021

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 9 to 5 (Morning Train), Beck, Bill Million, Famous Quotes, Jim Sullivan, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sheena Easton, The Feelies

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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They Are The White Label Promo Preservation Society

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Amy Rigby, Dave DiMartino, HoZac Books, HoZac Records, Ira Robbins, Jeff Tamarkin, Marshall Crenshaw, Mike Stax, Mitchell Cohen, Peter Holsapple, Radney Foster, Sal Maida, Steve Wynn, Susan Whitall, The dB's, Trouser Press, Ugly Things, White Label Promo Preservation Society, Wreckless Eric

On the eve of its celebration at New York’s famed Cutting Room, one more dive into this year’s most indispensable album guide

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“The New Mercury Rev Album Is Out”: How Music Helped Define 9/11

September 11, 2021September 11, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 20th Anniversary, 9/11, Bob Dylan, Dream Theater, Drowning Pool, I Am The World Trade Center, Jay-Z, Jimmy Eat World, The Coup, The Moldy Peaches

Jay-Z’s Blueprint, Dylan’s revival, The Coup loses its cover, Clear Channel hearts banning songs and other tales from that fateful day

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Famous Quotes Vol. 23: September 2021

September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 Jim Sullivan 2 Comments Dicky Barrett, Famous Quotes, Felix Cavaliere, Jim Sullivan, New Order, Roger Daltrey, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Rascals, The Who, The Young Rascals, Tom Chapman

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Pop Top 40: Hot 100 Week Ending August 29, 1981

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 Thomas Inskeep 0 Comments Diana Ross, Journey, Juice Newton, Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, Lionel Richie, Lulu, Pop Top 40, Stevie Nicks, The Commodores, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty

The month of MTV’s birth, the biggest singles in the U.S. didn’t exactly reflect the new cable channel

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That Dress: Bruce Springsteen and the Thunder Road Situation

August 18, 2021August 25, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 10 Comments Amanda Shires, Bobby Rydell, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Jon Landau, Thunder Road

On the great debate between “sway” and “wave” in the second line of a most iconic Boss song

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Famous Quotes Vol. 22: August 2021

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Daragh Lynch, Duran Duran, Famous Quotes, Fred Schneider, Jim Sullivan, Joan Baez, John Taylor, Lankum, Nico, The B-52's

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Remembering the Glory Days of MTV News

August 1, 2021August 2, 2021 Tim Sommer 14 Comments Alan Hunter, Doug Herzog, Hugo Largo, JJ Jackson, John Norris, Kurt Loder, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, MTV, MTV News, Tabitha Soren, Tim Sommer

In honor of today being the 40th anniversary of MTV’s debut on cable television, the Rock & Roll Globe is proud to bring you this “remastered” edition of Tim Sommer’s inside account of working for MTV News in the 80s and early 90s

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LISTEN: The 28 Best Albums Of 2021 So Far

July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 Ron Hart 2 Comments 2021, Albums, Armand Hammer, Chris Church, Floating Points, Garbage, James Brandon Lewis, Juliana Hatfield, Kaidi Tatham, L'Rain, Mammoth WVH, María Grand, Olivia Rodrigo, Ours, Paul Weller, Pharoah Sanders, Pupil Slicer, SAULT, The Alchemist, Too Much Joy, Weezer

The Rock & Roll Globe midyear report looks back at the best albums of the last six months

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LISTEN: I Got a Pride, You Got a Pride, Everybody Got a Pride (But This One’s Mine)

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Thomas Inskeep 1 Comment Diana Ross, Dog Park Dissidents, Erasure, Katy Perry, LGBTQ, Maxine Feldman, Nile Rodgers, Pride, Riot Grrl, RuPaul

A personal LGBTQ playlist for Pride Month 2021 – and beyond

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Famous Quotes Vol. XXI: July 2021

July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Famous Quotes, Huey Lewis, Joan Jett, Lux Interior, Mike Scott, Poison Ivy, Robyn Hitchcock, The Cramps, The Waterboys, William Butler Yeats

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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The Literature of American Pop

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Michaelangelo Matos 0 Comments 2021, Ann Powers, Duke University Press, Eric Weisbard, Michaelangelo Matos, Music Journalism, Songbooks, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music, William Gibson

Acclaimed journalist and author Michaelangelo Matos talks with Museum of Pop Culture’s Eric Weisbard about his important new tome Songbooks

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LISTEN: What Juneteenth Means To Me

June 19, 2021June 20, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Aretha Franklin, Bad Brains, Black Lives Matter, Clarence Clemons, Frank Ocean, Jimi Hendrix, Juneteenth, Lil Nas X, Living Colour, Stevie Wonder

59 songs that define my love and appreciation for Black Culture

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