30th Anniversary Archives - Rock and Roll Globe

Piece of Cake: The Least Corporate Rock Band’s Corporate Debut Turns 30

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Angela Denk 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Dan Peters, Mark Arm, Matt Lukin, MUDHONEY, Piece of Cake, Steve Turner

Mark Arm talks with Rock and Roll Globe about Mudhoney’s current tour and the impending anniversary of their first outing with Reprise Records in 1992

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Punk Rock

They Can’t Hear A Word We’ve Said: Bricks Are Heavy at 30

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1992, 30th Anniversary, Dee Plakas, Donita Sparks, Jennifer Finch, L7, Slash Records, Suzi Gardner

Three decades later, the classic third L7 album pulsates with an energy palpable for these times

Country and/or Western

Since The Last Time: Joshua Judges Ruth at 30

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Arnold McCuller, Curb Records, Edgar Meyer, Emmylou Harris, Jay Dee Maness, Joshua Judges Ruth, Leland Sklar, Leo Kottke, Lyle Lovett, Matt Rollings, Rickie Lee Jones, Russ Kunkel, Sir Harry Bowens, Sweet Pea Atkinson

Lyle Lovett’s fourth LP still sets a high bar for country music creativity

"Shoegaze" Alternative Rock

Going Doppelgänger Again: Celebrating Two Shoegaze Classics at 30

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1992, 30th Anniversary, Andy Bell, Curve, Dean Garcia, Doppelgänger, Going Blank Again, Mark Gardener, Ride, Toni Halliday

Both Curve’s Doppelgänger and Ride’s Going Blank Again came out on the same day in 1992

Alternative Rock North Americana

A Horse In The Country: Black Eyed Man at 30

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Jason Thurston 3 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Black Eyed Man, Cowboy Junkies, Margo Timmins, Michael Timmins, Peter Timmins, RCA

The third Cowboy Junkies album saw the Timmins siblings using volume to their advantage

Alternative Rock Rap

Sad New Day, Go Away: Me Phi Me’s ONE at 30

March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 Joseph Kyle 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, A Tribe Called Quest, Arrested Development, De La Soul, Me Phi Me, Michigan, One, P.M. Dawn, RCA

Looking back on an unsung alt-rap classic three decades ahead of its time

Indie Rock

The Worst Offense Is Intelligence: Guided By Voices’ Propeller at 30

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 Joseph Kyle 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Bee Thousand, Guided By Voices, Propeller, Robert Pollard, Scat Records, Tobin Sprout

Looking back on the first final album of a band that will never give up

Rock

Life’s Like A Mayonnaise Soda: Lou Reed’s Magic and Loss at 30

January 23, 2022January 24, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Lou Reed, Magic and Loss, Sire Records

For his first solo album of the 90s, Lou probed the depths of death and desire

Alternative Rock Rock

This Is Not A Black And White World: Live’s Mental Jewelry Turns 30

December 24, 2021January 1, 2022 Joseph Kyle 0 Comments 120 Minutes, 30th Anniversary, Big Audio Dynamite II, Blind Melon, Chad Gracey, Chad Taylor, Ed Kowalczyk, Live, Mental Jewelry, MTV, Pain Lies On The Riverside, Patrick Dahlhamer, Public Image Limited, Throwing Cooper

Why the York, PA band’s auspicious 1991 classic deserves as much appreciation as its multiplatinum successors

"Shoegaze" Alternative Rock Dream Pop

For The Love Of Loveless

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, album, Blinda Butcher, Colm O'Cloisig, Creation Records, Kevin Shields, Loveless, My Bloody Valentine, Only Shallow, Sire Records

Looking back on 30 years of My Bloody Valentine’s enduring masterpiece

Indie Rock

Miracle On 8th Street: American Music Club’s Everclear at 30

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Alias Records, American Music Club, Bruce Kaplan, California, Danny Pearson, Engine, Everclear, Mark Eitzel, Mike Simms, The Restless Stranger, United Kingdom, Vudi

Beloved by rock critics and record store clerks across the land, the fifth AMC LP remains an essential listen

Power Pop Rock

LISTEN: Matthew Sweet Talks Girlfriend 30 Years Later

October 22, 2021October 30, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Girlfriend, Greg Leisz, Ivan Julian, Lloyd Cole, Matthew Sweet, Richard Lloyd, Robert Quine, Zoo Entertainment

The alternative rock great chats exclusively with Rock & Roll Globe about his forever masterpiece

Hip Hop

The Future?: To Whom It May Concern… at 30

October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A Tribe Called Quest, Aceyalone, De La Soul, Dr. Dre, Flying Lotus, Freestyle Fellowship, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Myka 9, Open Mic Eagle, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter, Snoop Dogg, To Whom It May Concern

It was three decades ago today when Freestyle Fellowship took rap music to its threshold of enlightenment with influential debut

Art Pop Hip Hop

P.M. Dawn’s American Utopia

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Arrested Development, Digable Planets, Gee Street, Hieroglyphics, KRS One, Minutemix, Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, OutKast, P.M. Dawn, Paper Doll, Prince Be, Set Adrift On Memory Bliss, Spearhead

Looking back on 30 years of the debut album by one of hip-hop’s most misunderstood acts

Alternative Rock Irish Rock

Kirsty MacColl: They (Still) Don’t Know

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Desperate Character, Electric Landlady, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Marr, Kirsty MacColl, Steve Lillywhite, They Don't Know

It’s been 30 years since she released one of the best albums of 1991 with Electric Landlady; her flowers are long overdue

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