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Country and/or Western Folk 

Drive On: Johnny Cash’s American Recordings Turns 30

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1994, 30th Anniversary, American Recordings, Anthony DeCurtis, Glenn Danzig, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen, Nick Lowe, Rick Rubin, Tom Waits

Looking back on the album that reintroduced the Man in Black

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Country and/or Western 

New Johnny Cash Album, Songwriter, Out June 28th

April 24, 2024April 25, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1993, American Recordings, Dan Auerbach, David "Fergie" Ferguson, John Carter Cash, Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, Mercury Nashville, Rick Rubin, Songwriter, Vince Gill

11-track LP culled from lost 1993 recording session; listen to first single “Well Alright”

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Hip Hop Rap 

The Gift and the Curse: Jay-Z’s The Black Album at 20

November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 99 Problems, Change Clothes, Ice-T, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Rick Rubin, Roc-A-Fella, Sean Carter, The Black Album, Timbaland

Looking back on the album that was supposed to be Sean Carter’s retirement plan

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Folk Punk Rock World 

Long Shadow: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros’ Streetcore at 20

October 21, 2023October 21, 2023 Addie Moore 0 Comments 2003, 20th Anniversary, Bob Marley, Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, Streetcore, The Clash

Looking back on the British punk great’s final studio salvo

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Alternative Rock Country and/or Western Folk North Americana Rock 

Right In Time: Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road at 25

June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1998, 25th Anniversary, American Recordings, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams, Mercury Records, Rick Rubin, Roy Bittan, Steve Earle

Inside the resonant timelessness of her greatest album

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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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Remembrance Rock 

Five Years Gone: Remembering Tom Petty

October 2, 2022October 2, 2022 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments American Girl, Benmont Tench, Free Fallin', Full Moon Fever, George Harrison, Howie Epstein, Jeff Lynne, Johnny Cash, Mike Campbell, Rick Rubin, Ron Blair, Southern Accents, Steve Farrone, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Reflecting on 20 of his most memorable songs

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 27: January 2022

January 11, 2022January 12, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Dave Davies, Devo, Famous Quotes, Fishbone, Gerald V. Casale, Henry Rollins, Infinite Zero, Jim Sullivan, John Norwood Fisher, Rick Rubin, The Kinks

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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Heavy Metal Southern Rock 

The Beatles of Boogie Metal

March 14, 2021March 14, 2021 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, Elyse Steinman, Greg Strzempka, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Raging Slab, Rick Rubin, Tee Pee Records, The Dealer, ZZ Top

Raging Slab’s overlooked comeback album The Dealer At 20

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Pop Radio Remembrance Rock 

Phil Spector’s Selfish Symphonies

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Axel Stordahl, Brian Wilson, George Harrison, Guy Stevens, Jack Nitzsche, Jerry Wexler, John Hammond, John Lennon, Mitch Miller, Mutt Lange, Phil Spector, Rick Rubin, Ringo Starr, Sam Phillips, Shadow Morton, The Beatles, Tony Hatch

His classic 1960’s productions feature everything and the kitchen sink, but omit any room for us or our experience

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Blues Heavy Metal 

I’m The King Wolf: Danzig II: Lucifuge At 30

June 26, 2020June 28, 2020 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 1990, Blue Oyster Cult, Chuck Biscuits, Danzig, Danzig II: Lucifuge, Def American, Def Jam, John Christ, Metallica, Ministry, Nirvana, Rick Rubin, Samhain, The Misfits, The Pixies

Danzig’s sophomore mold-breaking blues metal masterpiece still swings low as part of his grand slam album quartet

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Alternative Rock Electronics Industrial 

Everything’s Blue In This World: Nine Inch Nails’ Further Down The Spiral Turns 25

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 Raymond Cummings 2 Comments 1995, Aphex Twin, Coil, Further Down The Spiral, Marilyn Manson, nin, Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, Rick Rubin, The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor

The Downward Spiral remix album is so much more than a remix album

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African Blues Funk jazz Latin Rock Soul World 

Santana Speaks

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 Bill Kopp 1 Comment 1999, Carlos Santana, Concord Records, Rick Rubin, Santana, Supernatural, Woodstock 1969

A conversation with the celebrated guitarist and bandleader on the occasion of some momentous anniversaries

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Punk Rock 

Record Producer David Bianco Has Died

June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 Bill Janovitz 0 Comments Buffalo Tom, David Bianco, Gene Simmons, Jon Wurster, Rick Rubin, Smitten, Teenage Fanclub, Tom Petty

Buffalo Tom guitarist Bill Janovitz remembers a guiding hand who believed in bridges

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