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WATCH: Joshua Lewis Been “Thinkin’ About You”

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Boise, Built To Spill, Friction, Idaho, Joshua Lewis, single, The Police, Thinkin' About You

Boise, ID-based Built To Spill collaborator shares video for new single

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Famous Quotes Vol. 33 (1/3): July 2022

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Ani DiFranco, Belly, Famous Quotes, Jim Sullivan, Julian Cope, Kristin Hersh, Mike Peters, Saint Julian, Sting, Tanya Donelly, Teardrop Explodes, The Alarm, The Police, Throwing Muses

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

New Wave

Story of the Ghost: Celebrating 40 Years of a Classic Police Album

October 19, 2021April 3, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, A&M Records, Andy Summers, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Ghost in the Machine, Hugh Padgham, Invisible Sun, Spirits in the Material World, Stewart Copeland, Sting, The Police

1981’s Ghost in the Machine underscores the trio’s fast ascent to superstar success

jazz Pop Progressive Rock

How Sting Built The Soul Cages 30 Years Ago

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1991, A&M Records, All This Time, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Sting, The Last Ship, The Police, The Soul Cages

Looking back at the Policeman’s understated triumph as songpoet and stealth-progger

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 10: August 2020

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Cherie Currie, Famous Quotes, Fiction Plane, Jim Sullivan, Joe Sumner, Little Feat, Lowell George, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Rickey Medlock, Sting, The Police, The Runaways

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

Radio Records

Music In A Time Of Coronavirus

March 18, 2020March 19, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments “Achoo, “Another World, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me, “Isolation, “No Sex, “Sick Again, “Sick as a Dog, “Sick Things, “So Alone, “State of Confusion, “The Lonesome DJ, “Too Sick To Pray, “Touch Me, “Ventilator Blues, “You Got to Take Sick and Die Some of These Days, “You Sound Like You’re Sick, ” “Le Freak (Freak Out), ” Antony and the Johnsons, ” Buzzcocks, ” Chic, ” Gilbert O’Sullivan, ” Golden Earring, ” Ramones, Aerosmith, Alex Chilton, Alice Cooper, Corona, Coronavirus, I’m Sick, Johnny Thunders, Joy Division, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Muddy Waters, MUDHONEY, Naturally, R.E.M., Rolling Stones, Sparks, The Kinks, The Police, The Specials, Too Much Joy, Warren Zevon, Willie Nelson

10 songs that speak to the uniqueness of a once-every-hundred-years situation

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

September 18, 2019October 18, 2021 Bobby Moore 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, adblock, 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