Dee Dee Ramone’s Rap ‘N’ Roll
For the Ramones bassist’s 69th birthday in Heaven, former Boston Globe music critic Jim Sullivan revisits his 1989 story chronicling Dee Dee’s short-lived hip-hop career
Read moreFor the Ramones bassist’s 69th birthday in Heaven, former Boston Globe music critic Jim Sullivan revisits his 1989 story chronicling Dee Dee’s short-lived hip-hop career
Read moreQuincy Jones’s Grammy-laden 1989 album was an unqualified triumph
Read moreAn exclusive interview with former guitarist Bruce Kulick about the most polarizing LP of the Non-Makeup Era
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Read moreBrazilian thrashers opened up a whole new can of worms with its third studio album
Read moreThe third classic from Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith saw them channeling their inner Fabs
Read moreA look inside the new box set celebrating The Mats’ most polarizing album
Read moreAs their stunning new concert film comes to home video, one writer explores the importance of a goth-rock masterpiece to an 18-year-old Midwestern boy in the summer of 1989
Read moreAmerican supergroup’s debut album set a new precedent for hard rock musicianship in 1989
Read moreReassessing the cultural significance of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s cult comedy classic and its soundtrack
Read moreA look back at The The’s decade-ending 1989 classic Mind Bomb
Read moreA look back at the Coop’s polarizing collaboration with pop spin doctor Desmond Child for its 30th anniversary
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