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Can’t Stop Running: Todd Rundgren’s ‘Nearly Human’ at 30

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1989, 30th Anniversary, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

The Wizard of Mink Hollow closes out the 80s with an underrated classic

Pop Remembrance

Move Over Darling: The Sexy Side of Doris Day

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Burt Bacharach, Doris Day, Hal David, Jack Nitzsche, RIP

The press liked to peg her as perpetually chaste, but there was a sly sensuality to the beloved actress the cool people picked up on in her films

Pop

Make Someone Happy: A Conversation with Tony Bennett

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 Bill Kopp 0 Comments Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Lady Gaga, Louis Armstrong, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tony Bennett

The RNRG is so blessed to publish this exclusive chat with the 93-year-old Italian-American icon

Pop Rock Soul

N Exhibition Fit 4 A Prince

May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Museum of Pop Culture, Prince, Purple Rain

An exclusive look at the all-encompassing salute to the Purple One on display at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle

Pop Rock

Billy Joel Turns 70

May 9, 2019May 10, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Billy Joel, Happy Birthday, Piano Man, Piano pop

My personal salute to the Piano Man

Pop

Don’t Let the Perfect Jenny Lewis Be the Enemy of the Good Jenny Lewis

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley, Warner Bros.

Is the former Rilo Kiley singer’s fourth solo album too manicured for its own gain?

Pop Rock

Met The Beatles

May 8, 2019May 9, 2019 Carey Budnick 2 Comments 1964, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

I greeted The Fab Four when they arrived in America in 1964

Disco Pop Records Soul

Donna Summer’s Bad Girls at 40

May 6, 2019May 7, 2019 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, Casablanca Records, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder

Still “Hot Stuff” after all these years

Pop Records Rock

We’re the Young Ones: When Cliff Richard Conquered England

April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 Mitchell Cohen 1 Comment 1959, Cliff Richard, The Shadows

Before The Beatles, it was the English Elvis who made the girls scream

Pop Power Pop

Your Most Valuable Possession: Ben Folds Five’s The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner at 20

April 29, 2019April 30, 2019 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five

A look back at the pop piano trio’s third and most idiosyncratic LP

Glam Pop

BTS: Rock ’n’ Roll Addiction is Born in the Womb of Screams

April 26, 2019April 29, 2019 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Androgyny, BTS, David Bowie, SNL

Inside the androgyny of the preteen dream with South Korea’s hottest export

Pop Rock

Full Moon Fever at 30

April 25, 2019April 26, 2019 Meghan Roos 0 Comments 1989, 30th Anniversary, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys

Petty’s hallmark solo debut still hits home after all these years.

Pop Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock

A Saucerful of Syd

April 20, 2019April 20, 2019 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, Syd Barrett

Pink Floyd’s original leading man still casts a long shadow

Pop

Good-Bad, Not Evil

April 18, 2019April 19, 2019 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Betty Weiss, Leader of the Pack, Mary Weiss, Shangri-Las

The Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las

New Wave Pop

40 Years On: Squeeze Release Cool For Cats

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, Chris Difford, Glen Tilbrook, John Cale, Squeeze

Difford and Tilbrook proved they’re the Big Meow in 1979

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