Blondie

Poetry Punk 

Patti Smith: Earth Angel

December 30, 2025December 30, 2025 Dave Steinfeld 1 Comment Blondie, Bread of Angels, Fred Sonic Smith, Ivan Kral, Jay Dee Daugherty, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, St. Martin’s Press, Talking Heads, Television, The Patti Smith Group, Todd Smith, Tony Shanahan

The Godmother of Punk’s new memoir is the book of a lifetime

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New Wave Punk Rock 

The Vapors Create a Buzz with Wasp in a Jar

March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment Blondie, Clem Burke, Eddie Munoz, Josh Kantor, Keith Streng, Michael Giblin, New Wave, Split Squad, The Baseball Project, The Fleshtones, The Plimsouls, The Vapors, Turning Japanese, Vapors Own Records, Wasp in a Jar

Bassist Steve Smith talks about the New Wave legends’ fourth album in 45 years

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New Wave Punk Rock 

Catching Blondie Through The Decades

January 5, 2025January 5, 2025 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Blondie, CBGB, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Destri, No Exit, Pollinator

A celebration of the NYC legends in honor of guitarist Chris Stein’s 75th birthday

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New Wave Pop Punk Rock 

Picture This: Blondie’s Parallel Lines at 45

September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1978, 45th Anniversary, Blondie, Chris Stein, Chrysalis Records, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Hanging On The Telephone, Heart of Glass, Jimmy Destri, Mike Chapman, Nigel Harrison, One Way or Another, Parallel Lines, The Nerves. Mike Chapman

Honoring a glistening jewel of pop rock perfection that hasn’t dimmed since 1978

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Hip Hop Rap Rock 

A Loose History of the Rock and Hip-Hop Connection in Eight Moves

August 11, 2023August 11, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 50th anniversary, Blondie, Eddie Martinez, Elvis Costello, Faith No More, Hip-hop, Judgment Night soundtrack, KRS One, Larry Smith, Lil Yachty, R.E.M., Riot, Run DMC, The Roots

From Blondie to Yachty, we trace back the evolution of this everloving junction

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New Wave Punk Rock 

The Lloyds: Lost and Found in San Francisco

June 26, 2023June 27, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Attitude Check, Blondie, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Liberation Hall Records, Lulu Lewis, The Avengers, The Go-Gos, The Knack, The Lloyds, The Nuns

A new compilation brings light to a criminally underrated New Wave band

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Power Pop Punk Remembrance Rock 

Jack Lee, frontman for The Nerves, Gone at 71

June 7, 2023June 7, 2023 Rock and Roll Globe Staff 0 Comments Blondie, Bomp! Records, Chris Morris, Def Leppard, Jack Lee, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Los Angeles, Paul Collins, Paul Young, Peter Case, Power pop, RIP, The Nerves

Read the touching, informed obit from veteran music journalist Chris Morris

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New Wave Punk 

WATCH: Rochester Punks New Math Return

May 19, 2023May 20, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Blondie, Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds (1979-1983), New Math, New York, Propeller Sound Recordings, Rochester, The Cramps, The Damned, The Only Ones, The Ramones, Upstate NY

The band shares video from forthcoming comp Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds (1979 – 1983)

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 42: March 2023

March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Anti-Nowhere League, Blondie, CBGB, Chris Stein, Famous Quotes, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jim Sullivan, Johnny B., Magoo, Melody Maker, Pete Townshend, The Who

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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Punk Rock 

The Missing Link: The Damned’s Strawberries Turns 40

November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 1982, Blondie, Captain Sensible, CHEAP TRICK, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Dave Vanian, Machine Gun Etiquette, Moody Blues, Strawberries, The Black Album, The Cars, The Damned, The Doors, The Kinks, The Who, Van Morrison

How did we miss out on one of the greatest classic rock bands of all time?

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Uncategorized 

Blonde On Blondie: Inside the New Box Set

August 30, 2022 Justin Cober-Lake 0 Comments Against The Odds: 1974 to 1982, Autoamerican, Blondie, Chris Infante, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Eat To The Beat, Gary Valentine, Numero Group, Parallel Lines, Plastic Letters, The Hunter

Against The Odds is the most definitive compendium of the legendary NYC band yet

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Dance Soul World 

In Praise of the Topical Dance Music of Belgian Duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul 

June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 Kathy Fennessy 0 Comments Art of Noise, Barboza, Blondie, Bolis Pupul, Charlotte Adigéry, Dead Milkmen, Seattle, Stereo Total, Talking Heads, Topical Dancer

The two European composers of one of the year’s best pop albums take Seattle

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Music Journalism 

They Were There: Two Legendary Rock Writers Sitting Around Talking Pt. 2

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022 Jim Allen 1 Comment Blondie, Gene Sculatti, Greg Tate, Ira Robbins, Nick Tosches, Ralph J. Gleason, Television, The Catalog of Cool, The Marbles, The Mumps, The Ramones, Trouser Press

A candid conversation with Ira Robbins and Gene Sculatti, continued

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Alternative Rock Music Journalism Pop 

Why Has Sirius Lost a Million Subscribers?

December 14, 2021April 3, 2022 Ken Kurson 2 Comments Apple Music, BAMTech LLC, Blondie, Bob Michelson, Disney, HBO and Hulu, James Woodell, Joe Inzerillo, Little Steven’s Underground Garage, Netflix, Nirvana, Paramount Plus, Peacock, Pravda Records, Richard Lloyd, Rodney Bingenheimer, Sirius, Sonic Youth, Spotify, The Lilacs, The Lilacs Endure, The Ramones, The Wall Street Journal, X

The greatest radio ever built has to stop acting like a radio

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Music Journalism Rock Rock Docs 

Mick Rock, 1948–2021

November 19, 2021April 3, 2022 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Blondie, Bob Marley, Brian May, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Ian Hunter, Iggy and the Stooges, Jack White, Joan Jett, John Cale, Johnny Marr, Lady Gaga, Lou Reed, Madonna, Matthew Kassel, Michael Stipe, Mick Rock, Mötley Crüe, New York Observer, Ozzy, Peter Gabriel, Pharrell Williams, Phil Collins, Ray Davies, Roxy Music, Squeeze, Talking Heads, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Thin Lizzy, Tina Turner, Transformer

Rock’s greatest photographer chronicled rock’s greatest era

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