Pink Floyd

Heavy Metal Progressive Rock 

Rat Or Angel?

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Nathan Carson 1 Comment 1991, Angel Rat, Canada, Denis “Piggy” D’Amour, Heavy Metal, Jean-Yvez “Blacky” Theriault, Nothingface, Pink Floyd, Quebec, Rush, The Beatles, Voivod

30 years of grappling with Voivod’s disasterpiece Angel Rat

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Hard Rock Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

The Hawk Is Still Howling: Dave Brock at 80

August 20, 2021August 21, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 80th birthday, Dave Brock, ELO, ELP, Hawkwind, King Crimson, Lemmy, Motörhead, Pink Floyd, Status Quo, Yes

Even as a geezer, the enigmatic Hawkwind frontman is still fearlessly in search of rock’s final frontier

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 18: April 2021

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Black Francis, Charles Thompson IV, Daniel Lanois, David Gilmour, Famous Quotes, Frank Black, Jim Sullivan, John Lurie, Les Claypool, Pink Floyd, Primus, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, the Lounge Lizards, The Pixies

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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Progressive Rock Rock 

David Gilmour at 75

March 6, 2021March 6, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, About Face, Bad Company, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Dark Side Of The Moon, The Endless River, The Final Cut

Jim Sullivan recounts his conversation with the Pink Floyd guitarist while he was promoting his vastly underrated second solo album About Face

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Remembrance Soundtracks and Film Scores 

The 5 Best Musical Moments in the Alan Parker Filmography

August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Alan Parker, Birdy, Bob Geldof, Bobby Eaton, Dennis Condrey, Giorgio Moroder, Glen Hansard, Jim Cornette, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd -- The Wall, RIP, The Commitments, The Midnight Express

Remembering the life of the visionary director, gone at 76

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Pop Rock 

‘Bono, Meet Perdomo…’

March 23, 2020December 26, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Beck, Bono, Brian Wilson, Cat Power, Fernando Perdomo, Jakob Dylan, Let Your Love Be Known, Netflix, Norah Jones, Pink Floyd, Regina Spektor, U2

In an age of isolation, the U2 frontman’s solo performance is given a powerful postscript

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Records 

Young Men Take A Look At Your Lives

March 6, 2020March 9, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Elvis Costello, Free Four, Help the Aged, Neil Young, Old & In The Way, Old Man, Picture Book, Pink Floyd, Pulp, She's So Cold, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Magnetic Fields, The Rolling Stones, When I'm Sixty Four, When You're Old and Lonely

10 songs about aging in rock ‘n’ roll from legendary acts in the prime of their youth

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Progressive Rock 

Prepare Yourself: Porcupine Tree’s ‘The Sky Moves Sideways’ at 25

March 2, 2020March 3, 2020 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1995, Dark Side of the Moon, David Gilmour, Delirium Records, Fear of a Blank Planet, Japan, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson, The Incident, The Orb, The Sky Moves Sideways

In 1995, the band released its third official album, an exemplar of the kind of ethereal space rock that would win over fans of Pink Floyd’s post-Syd Barrett and pre-The Dark Side of the Moon period

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Post-Punk 

ALBUMS: Inside Wire’s Hive

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 2020, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Mind Hive, Pink Flag, Pink Floyd, The Go-Betweens, The Kinks, The Who, Wire

43 years after its debut, Mind Hive proves this British punk institution is still making flawless records

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Experimental Music Journalism Pop Progressive Rock Psychedelics 

No Good Trying: Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs at 50

January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1970, 50th, 50th anniversary, David Gilmour, EMI, Harvest Records, Jokers Wild, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett

Rock & Roll Globe contributor Bill Kopp shares an excerpt from his acclaimed book Reinventing Pink Floyd

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Pop Progressive Rock Rock 

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: Eight Notable Features of Pink Floyd’s The Later Years 

December 26, 2019December 27, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 2 Comments David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Reissues, Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett, The Later Years

Exploring the catacombs of this overdue sonic monument to the post Roger Waters era

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Punk 

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: The Damned Finally Get the Greatest Hits Album They Deserve

December 3, 2019December 19, 2019 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Black is the Night, Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian, Hall and Oates, Pink Floyd, Punk, Radiohead, Strawberries, Suicide, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, The Black Album, The Damned, Wire

A celebration of the Captain and Co.’s essential two-disc anthology Black Is The Night

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New Wave Progressive Rock Psychedelics 

Is There Anybody Out There?: Pink Floyd’s The Wall at 40

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 1 Comment 1979, 40th Anniversary, Alan Parker, David Gilmour, Gerald Scarfe, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd -- The Wall, Richard Wright, Roger Waters, The Wall

Just how much does Roger Waters’ hallucinogenic post-war opus reflect on these modern times?

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Electronic Experimental Folk 

Jane Weaver: A Cosmic Catapault Allows for Liftoff 

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment England, Fire Records, Folktronica, Four Tet, Hawkwind, Jane Weaver, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream

On her new LP, the English folktronica auteur discovers Loops in the Secret Society

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"Shoegaze" Indie Rock Pop Post-Hardcore Psychedelics 

Trupa Trupa Is Coming to America!

July 15, 2019July 17, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Fugazi, Gdansk, King Crimson, Lovitt Records, NPR, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hook, Pink Floyd, Poland, Ride, Spiritualized, Trupa Trupa, Union Pool

The celebrated Polish psych rockers to play three dates in the United States following the September release of their forthcoming LP Of The Sun; Watch New Video

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