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How Low Budget Brought About The Kinks’ Second Act

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1979, 45th Anniversary, Arista Records, Chrissie Hynde, Clive Davis, Dave Davies, Jim Rodford, Low Budget, Pretenders, Ray Davies, The Kinks

Happy 45th Anniversary to the album that belatedly made the band rock stars in America

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Rock 

Pretenders: Relentless in Boston

July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment Boston, Chrissie Hynde, Pretenders, Ray Davies, Relentless, The Pretenders

Chrissie Hynde and co. rip it up for a sold out MGM Music Hall

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Rock 

20th Century Man: Ray Davies Turns 80

June 21, 2024June 22, 2024 Jim Sullivan 2 Comments 80th birthday, Dave Davies, Julien Temple, Ray Davies, The Kinks, Tom Robinson

Reeling in the years with the legendary Kinks frontman

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Britpop Pop Rock 

The Kinks Announce The Journey – Part 2

September 27, 2023February 19, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments A Soap Opera, Andrew Sandoval, BMG, Dave Davies, Everybody’s In Show Biz, Face To Face, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Mick Avory, Muswell Hillbillies, Peter Quaife, Preservation Acts 1 & 2, Ray Davies, Something Else, The Journey - Part 2, The Kink Kontroversy, The Kinks, The Village Green Preservation Society

The next chapter of the legendary British band’s biographical anthology series comes out November 17th

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Rock 

Trust Your Heart: The Kinks’ Misfits at 45

May 30, 2023May 30, 2023 Chris Parker 0 Comments 1978, 45th Anniversary, A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy, Arista Records, Dave Davies, Misfits, Ray Davies, The Kinks

Reflecting on the UK greats’ late ’70s classic

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Britpop Rock 

Close to the Wire: The Kinks’ Phobia at 30

March 29, 2023March 29, 2023 Craig Peters 2 Comments 1993, Columbia Records, Dave Davies, Phobia, Ray Davies, The Kinks

Is the band’s final studio album more relevant today?

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Rock 

The Kinks Announce Two-Part 60th Anniversary Anthology

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments BMG, British Invasion, Dave Davies, Mick Avory, Peter Quaife, Ray Davies, The Journey - Part 1, The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset

The Journey – Part 1 comes out on March 24th

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Britpop Rock 

Kinks Kulture in the Early ’70s

September 16, 2022September 18, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 3 Comments Box Set, Dave Davies, England, Everybody’s In Show Biz, Mick Avory, Muswell Hillbillies, Ray Davies, The Kinks

A new box set commemorates a pair of classic albums from the legendary English band

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Britpop Rock 

Visionary Dreamer: Dave Davies Turns 75

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Dave Davies, Death of a Clown, Living On A Thin Line, Ray Davies, The Kinks

Jim Sullivan revisits his years in conversation with the Kinks guitar great

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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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New Wave Punk Rock 

‘Have A Nice Death’: Chrissie Hynde at 70

September 7, 2021September 7, 2022 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 70th Birthday, Boston, Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott, Martin Chambers, New Wave, Orpheum Theatre, Pete Farndon, Pretenders, Punk, Ray Davies, Stockholm, The Buzzcocks, The Kinks, The Pretenders

Looking back on over 40 years of seeing the fiery Pretenders frontwoman on stage

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Britpop Rock 

Champagne Like Coca-Cola: Lola Versus The Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One at 50

December 22, 2020December 23, 2020 Justin Joffe 2 Comments 1970, 50th anniversary, Dave Davies, Lola, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, MOJO, Ray Davies, The Kinks, Tim Sommer

A half-century later, The Kinks’ timeless classic makes us yearn for the problematic music industry of yore

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Britpop Music Journalism 

A Ready, Steady, Revolution!

October 15, 2020October 16, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments and power-brokers Andrew Loog Oldham, Andy Neill, Chris Stamp, Donovan, Marvin Gaye, Mick Jagger, Otis Redding, Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Ready Steady Go!, Rod Stewart, The Animals, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, The Who

A new book on the groundbreaking British television program, Ready, Steady, Go! documents pop’s primetime emergence

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 3: January 2020

January 13, 2020January 14, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Dave Vanian, David Byrne, My Generation, Patti Smith, Ray Davies, Rick Danko, Talking Heads, The Damned, The Kinks, The Who

Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the third installment of his inquisitive column

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Pop Rock 

Dave Davies on the Beauty and Meaning of “Strangers”

January 8, 2020January 10, 2020 Tim Sommer 4 Comments 1970, Aaron Paul, Apple TV+, Dave Davies, Dave Davies interview, Elizabeth Perkins, Jon Gosling, Lizzy Caplan, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Lucius, Norah Jones, Octavia Spencer, Part One, Ray Davies, RNR Globe exclusive, Russell Davies, Strangers cover song, The Kinks, Truth Be Told on Apple TV+, Wye Oak

RNR Globe exclusive interview with the legendary Kinks guitarist about one of the band’s most enduring tunes and also gives a reunion update

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