Island Records Archives - Rock and Roll Globe

The First Cut Is The Deepest: The Slits’ Classic Debut Turns 40

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019 Bobby Moore 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, Ari Up, Cut, Dennis Bovell, Island Records, Palmolive, Punky Reggae Party, Reggae, Teresa Pollitt, The Clash, The Police, The Ruts, The Slits, Typical Girls, Viv Albertine

They were a band willing and able to transcend their peers’ three-chord pop songs and political sloganeering to create something that really did chip away at the rock ‘n’ roll myth

Dub/Reggae Electronics Folk Hip Hop jazz

Cause All I Have Left is My Memories of Yesterday: Dummy at 25

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1994, Adrian Utley, Beth Gibbons, Clive Deamer, Dummy, Geoff Barrow, Glory Box, Island Records, Portishead, Sour Times

How Portishead got me through college in the mid-90s

Folk

When You’re Gone: Nick Drake’s Debut Album Turns 50

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments 1969, 50th anniversary, FIve Leaves Left, Island Records, Nick Drake, Nick Drake Fruit Tree, Pink Moon, Volkswagen

Five decades later, Five Leaves Left still resonates with a beauty and grace that defies age

Pop

Too Good To Be True: Robert Palmer’s Secrets at 40

June 8, 2019July 1, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, Island Records, Robert Palmer

The dapper don of soulful artpop closed out the 70s with a hit album

Rock

Happy Birthday, Tom Waits!

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 Ron Hart 0 Comments Anti- Records, Asylum Records, Birthdays, Island Records, Tom Waits

An exclusive playlist celebrating a hero’s 69th year on earth

Rock

Encapsulating The Past Through A Revamped Refrain

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1988, 30th Anniversary, Island Records, Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits

Thirty years ago, Tom Waits releases Big Time