RCA Records

Rock 

Return of the Thin White Duke: David Bowie’s Station to Station Turns 50

January 24, 2026 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1976, 50th anniversary, David Bowie, Heroes, Lodger, Low, Plastic Soul, RCA Records, Station to Station, TVC 15

Looking back on a real cocaine classic

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Dance Electronic Hip Hop 

New KAYTRANADA Album, Timeless, Out This Friday

June 4, 2024June 4, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Anderson .Paak, Channel Tres, Childish Gambino, Dawn Richard, Don Toliver, KAYTRANADA, Mariah the Scientist, PinkPantheress, Ravyn Lenae, RCA Records, Rochelle Jordan, Thundercat, Timeless, Tinashe

Listen to Channel Tres-assisted single “Drip Sweat” below

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Glam Rock 

Future Legend: David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs Turns 50

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1974, 1984, 50th anniversary, Candidate, David Bowie, Diamond Dogs, George Orwell, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, RCA Records, Rebel Rebel

Looking back on a criminally underrated album in his vast catalog

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Glam Rock 

Lou Reed’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal and the Excellence of Excess

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1974, David Lee Roth, Dick Wagner, Heroin, Lou Reed, RCA Records, Rock 'n' Roll, Rock 'n' Roll Animal, Steve Hunter, Sweet Jane, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat

Remembering an album that gave the Velvet Underground a glam makeover

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Country and/or Western Pop Rock 

Hate Her Harder: Kesha Will Not Be Silenced

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 Deborah Sprague 0 Comments 2023, Dr. Luke, Gag Order, Kesha, Kurt Vile, Nashville, RCA Records, Rick Rubin

Why Gag Order is the pop star’s most honest work of her career

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Alternative Rock Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Heavy Metal Post-Hardcore 

Millennium Tension: Jupiter is the OK Computer of Heavy Metal

September 10, 2020September 13, 2020 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 2000, Antenna, Caleb Scofield, Cave In, Explosions in the Sky, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Hydra Head Records, J.R. Conners, Jupiter, Nirvana, RCA Records, Steve Brodsky

Cave In’s breakout album turns 20

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Hip Hop 

Second Time’s The Charm: 25 Years of  Mobb Deep’s The Infamous

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments 1995, Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, Havoc, Illmatic, Juvenile Hell, Laura Checkoway, Loud Records, Mobb Deep, My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy, Nas, Prodigy, RCA Records, Shook Ones Pt. 2, Simon & Schuster

“This was our second chance to show the world that Mobb Deep was something special.” – Prodigy, from My Infamous Life (2011)

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Pop 

Our Friendly Beehive State: Nilsson Sings Newman Turns 50

February 15, 2020February 20, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1970, Harry Nilsson, Harry Nilsson Randy Newman, Nilsson Sings Newman, Randy Newman, RCA Records, Yellow Man

In 1970, Harry and Randy made the perfect pair

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Rock 

Long Time Coming: Elvis Presley and the American Sound Studio sessions

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 2 Comments 1969, American Sound 1969, Elvis Presley, Felton Jarvis, Legacy Recordings, RCA Records

Author Gillian G. Gaar reconfigures an excerpt from her acclaimed book for an exciting new reissue revolving around The King’s most underrated era

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