2020 Archives - Rock and Roll Globe

ALBUMS: Strumming and Thrumming Left of the Dial

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Justin Cober-Lake 1 Comment 1983-1987, 2020, Barbara Manning, Captured Tracks, R.E.M., Salem 66, Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground, Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987, The dB's, Various Artists, Various Artists Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987

The overlooked mid-80s American College Rock movement finally gets its salute with Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987

Art Pop Britpop Glam Heavy Metal

The Man Who Made Metrobolist

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 2020, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Cream, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Metrobolist, Mick Ronson, Parlophone, Reissues, The Man Who Sold the World, Woody Woodmansey

David Bowie’s classic proto-metal third album gets a new stereo facelift from its original producer

jazz Progressive Rock

Abracadabra In Osaka Unearths a Magic Moment in Soft Machine History

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Jim Allen 0 Comments 2020, Abracadabra In Osaka, Alan Holdsworth, Elton Dean, John Marshall, MoonJune Records, Soft Machine, Soft Works

The Soft Works lineup is heard live for the first time.

Southern Rock

ALBUMS: Drive-By Truckers Share a Perilous Journey

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, American Band, ATO Records, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell, Patterson Hood, Southern Rock Opera, The Dirty South, The New OK, The Ramones

With their latest album, The New OK, these sons of the south probe the darker depths of a deep divide

Classical Electronics

ALBUMS: The Reintegration Loops

December 26, 2020December 27, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2020, 9/11, Lamentations, Ltd., Temporary Residence, The Disintegration Loops, William Basinski

On Lamentations, William Basinski again indicts the concept of recorded sound as deathless zombie-like preservation, revealing instead the inherent impermanence of technology’s documentary mediums,

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Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche: Sad Songs for a Sad Time

December 25, 2020December 25, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments 2020, I Can Still Hear You, Loudon Wainwright III, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Story Sound Records, Suzzy Roche, The Roches

For their third collaboration, I Can Still Hear You, the acclaimed mother-daughter combo explores the reality of life in 2020.

Power Pop

Ryan and Pony Are Our Favorite New Act of 2020

December 20, 2020December 21, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, COVID-19, Moshi Moshi, Pete Anderson, Pravda Records, Quarantine, Run Westy Run, Ryan and Pony, Soul Asylum, The Ocean Blue

Find out why in this exclusive tell-all with Ryan Smith, one half of the premier power pop couple of the Twin Cities

Electronic Hip Hop

ALBUMS: Seismic Beat Science

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment 2020, Geoff Barrow, Heavy Tremors, Quakers, Quakers II: The Next Wave, Stones Throw, Stuart Matthews, Supa K

The guest-stacked second Quakers LP is a showcase for their most overlooked architect

adblock Records Retail

Box It Up! 🎁 🎄

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, All That You Can't Leave Behind, Bobby Bare, Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus, Box sets, Christmas, holiday, Jerry Garcia, Joni Mitchell, Morrison Hotel, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, U2, Wilco, Wildflowers And All The Rest

Rock and Roll Globe’s Holiday 2020 Guide to Musical Gift Giving

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Professor and The Madman: Honoring the Roots of Punk Rock, Part 1

December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments 2020, Alfie Agnew, Crash Kills Four, D.I., Eddie and the Hot Rods, Fullertone Records, Mind Over Four, Paul Gray, Rat Scabies, Sean Elliott, Séance, The Adolescents, The Damned, The Professor and the Madman, U.F.O.

A look into the anatomy of an international supergroup

Rock

Bohemian Ecstasy

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, Adam Lambert, Live Around The World, Queen, Queen + Adam Lambert

Queen + Adam Lambert go globetrotting (while still mining Mercury)

Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock

ALBUMS: The Freewheeling Thurston Moore

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 2020, By The Fire, Daydream Library, Deb Googe, James Sedwards, My Bloody Valentine, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

On By The Fire, Moore and company tease his singer-songwriter muse further out

New Wave Pop Radio Rock

ALBUMS: An Unbreakable Heart

December 3, 2020 Marcus K. Dowling 1 Comment 2020, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Miley Cyrus, Plastic Hearts, RCA

Essentially, Plastic Hearts represents “The Freedom of Miley Cyrus”

Art Pop Holiday

LISTEN: Gold Record “Candy Cane”

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Christmas, Gold Record, The 1975, Travis Scott

After 5 EPs released across the pandemic, this fresh new Bay Area band end a quarantined year with a bit of yuletide cheer

"Shoegaze" Indie Rock

WATCH: “Invisible Door” by Trupa Trupa

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Gdansk, Henry Rollins, I'll Find, Iggy Pop, Poland, Trupa Trupa

Rock & Roll Globe honored to premiere the latest video from Poland’s rising dream rock outfit

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