Run-DMC
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Interview by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages audio, October 1986
Rock and rap, hip hop live and hip hop movies, and the struggle to get hip hop into the mainstream – the Queens Kings of Rap'n'Roll speak.
File format: mp3; file size: 31.9mb, interview length: 34' 51" sound quality: **
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It's Like That, Is It?: Run DMC: Danceteria, New York
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 26 May 1984
RAP'S STILL going strong, because all of what has to be said has not yet been said. Street kids have got to get over, and ...
Review by Push, Soundcheck, August 1984
WARNING: This is an American release and it may take a lot of effort to find a copy. Justification: all successful searches will be truly ...
Profile by Richard Grabel, Musician, August 1984
RAP CONTINUES to have plenty to say, and with good reason. The unemployment, underemployment and general hardship that afflict ghetto kids aren't ending under the ...
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, September 1984
A TRIO OF STREET teens from the shadows of Shea Stadium who bear out ex-Met manager Casey Stengel's enthusiasm about the Youth of America? ...
Profile and Interview by Carol Cooper, The Face, November 1984
DESPITE WHAT you may have read, there is no such thing as a monolithic black American style. The attempt to pigeonhole black creativity into narrow ...
Run-D.M.C.: King Of Rock (Profile/Island); Whodini: Escape (Jive)
Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 23 February 1985
DMC: DMX + HM = OTT! ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 9 March 1985
Run DMC are two New Yorkers who set their raps to a raw rock backdrop and talked their way up the charts. Paolo Hewitt meets the ...
Run-DMC: King Of Rock (Profile BR LP504)*****
Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 9 March 1985
Born to Run ...
Run DMC: King Of Rock (Profile)
Review by Fred Goodman, Musician, April 1985
A REPORTER once jokingly asked Muhammad Ali if his retirement would spell the end of boxing. Instead of turning the question into grist for his ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1985
"How did Mel go over here?... They still like Culture Club in England?... Who's Junior?... What about Prince?..." ...
Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1986
RUNNING ON FULL ...
Run DMC: Raising Hell (London)
Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 19 July 1986
BOYS FROM THE COUNTY HELL ...
RUN DMC: Raising Hell (Profile/London)
Review by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 19 July 1986
A SEOUL diversion — RUN DMC coming up, fast food and sweet music ready to go. ...
Report and Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 13 September 1986
With their Raising Hell tour putting the frighteners on many a major American town and their Rapping Metal single, 'Walk This Way' scaring the pants ...
Report by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 13 September 1986
The pervasive sound of hip hop becomes punctuated by an altogether more sinister noise — the bark of hand-guns — as, on the streets of ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 20 September 1986
As the RUN DMC tidal wave breaks over the British coastline and the country reels to its knees, it's maybe time to ponder the principles ...
Run DMC, Whodini, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 27 September 1986
RUN LIKE HELL ...
Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, November 1986
IF YOU think that rap is just some metrical motor-mouth rhymin' about how great he is in every way, with minimal but apocalyptically loud, reverb ...
Tear Down The Walls, Pack Out The Halls: On The (Hard) Beat With Run-DMC
Report and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, December 1986
RUN, DMC and Jam Master Jay are mad as hell, not about to take it anymore, and quite ready to let you know about the ...
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 20 December 1986
RICK RUBIN and RUSSELL SIMMONS are the creative mavericks behind the outrageous antics of THE BEASTIE BOYS and RUN DMC and a whole host of ...
Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, 1987
Six years ago, Profile Records released six 12" singles. That was before Run-D.M.C. Now this thriving independent has some very major ambitions. ...
Def Jam #2: World Domination Enterprises
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 3 January 1987
In the second part of his investigation into DEF JAM records, the world's hottest label, Frank Owen charts the careers of RICK RUBIN, RUSSELL SIMMONS, ...
Beastie Boys: Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Rob Tannenbaum, New Musical Express, 17 January 1987
BUILDING THE PERFECT JERKS! ...
The Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C., Fishbone: Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 February 1987
BEASTIE BOYS BAPTISM ...
Overview by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
The wit and wisdom of DEF JAM as captured in the NME. From Rick Rubin as hipster to Beastie Boys as Sex Zeppelin and beyond. ...
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
With their label gone mega, and even greater triumphs planned, Def Jam mainmen RICK RUBIN and RUSSELL SIMMONS currently combine the Midas touch with the ...
Run DMC: Homeboy's Home Truths
Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 23 May 1987
ON THE EVE OF THEIR BRITISH TOUR, RUN DMC EXPLAIN TO FRANK OWEN THE STRENGTH OF SILENCE, THE POWER OF GOOD EXAMPLE AND THE WAY THE HISTORY ...
The Beastie Boys: Just nice boys at heart
Report and Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 23 May 1987
"THERE'S A certain virtue in negative publicity, and a lot of it has come from us just being ourselves, particularly on stage; but there's a ...
Def Jam: Don't Knock The Rock – Rap It
Report by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 1 June 1987
Mark Cooper on how Def Jam crossed over punk with rap, white with black, and stayed cool with both sides ...
Run DMC, The Beastie Boys: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 6 June 1987
FRIGGIN' AND SWIGGIN! ...
Run DMC/The Beastie Boys: Brixton Academy, London/Brighton Centre
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 6 June 1987
PHALLUS & FALLACY ...
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, Creem, January 1988
SOME INESCAPABLE facts accompany Run DMC's latest venture onto the big screen. They are probably the biggest rap group in the world. They sell millions ...
Run DMC: Tougher Than Leather (London LON 38/CD) ****
Review by Mat Snow, Sounds, 28 May 1988
THROWING PUNCHLINES ...
Run DMC, Public Enemy et al: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 15 October 1988
LONDON BRIDGE is falling down, Big Ben has struck one minute to midnight and had his hand's burned. And all is not well in this ...
Special Feature by Mark Dery, Keyboard, November 1988
THE RAW POWER OF CHEAP TECH CRASHES HEAD-ON INTO INNER-CITY DEFIANCE AND DESPAIR ...
Concert Violence: Who's to Blame?
Report by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 3 November 1988
Action needed in the wake of recent deaths at rap and metal shows ...
Report and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Bulletin, 8 November 1988
THE RECENT FILM Colors gave Australians a frightening glimpse of life in the modern American ghetto, where the streets are ruled by gangs of machine-gun-toting ...
In Rap's Hometown, an Icy Reception
Report by Rob Tannenbaum, The New York Times, 28 April 1991
THE MARQUEE'S experiment with rap concerts didn't last long. The small club, in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, usually presents alternative-rock bands. But after the ...
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993
MANAGER ADOFO Muhammad is talking up his brother and CL Smooth's success. "The unique sound is all incorporated in Pete Rock's flow — his art. ...
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993
It ain't a respect thing (even if it should be). It's the real thing. The kings are back. The gold, the fresh trainers and the ...
Naughty By Nature, Run D.M.C., SWV, Wreckx-n-Effect, Apache: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 13 May 1993
RUN-D.M.C. holds a fistful of rap firsts — Top Five single, million-selling album, Rolling Stone cover — so it's hardly surprising that it's now the ...
Run DMC: The Grand Old Men of Rap Strike Back
Profile and Interview by Amy Linden, The New York Times, 20 June 1993
THE RAPPER Run (Joseph Simmons) snakes his way down the corridors leading to the green room at MTV's mid-Manhattan studio. Everywhere he turns, there's an ...
Run DMC/Onyx/Boss: Palladium, NYC
Live Review by Ian Christe, Your Flesh, Summer 1993
PASS TWO METAL detectors and a sixteen-point patdown, then descend three stories of padded stairs into a vast ancient theatre outfitted with video gear. ...
Essay by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, 2 April 1998
Hip-hop: The need, not the greed ...
Run DMC, Chemical Brothers, Roni Size et al: Creamfields, Winchester
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 9 May 1998
It's a Cream come true! We join the madness that's CREAMFIELDS in Winchester with Primal Scream! Cornershop! Roni Size! Run DMC! The full bloody monty! ...
Overview by David Bennun, Hot Air, 1999
A LITTLE over two minutes into The Fugees' 1996 hit 'Ready Or Not', the voice of Lauryn Hill is thrown into relief by a brief ...
Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, April 2000
The thrill is gone for the crew from Hollis, Queens. With DMC's voice failing and run eager to battle rap against the new school, will ...
The Grim Reporter December 2002
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, December 2002
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 5 April 2003
Run DMC inspired a generation to turn hip-hop into a multi-billion dollar industry, says GAVIN MARTIN ...
Retrospective and Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, September 2003
Back in 1986 hip hop entered a golden age — lyrical revolution, sonic innovation, and individuality — that gave rise to such rap legends as ...
The Last Days Of Jam Master Jay
Retrospective by Frank Owen, Playboy, December 2003
IT'S THE DAY before Halloween in Jamaica, Queens. ...
Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, August 2004
Down by law: Mr. 'Walk This Way' tells why rap and rock are meant for each other ...
Retrospective by Amy Linden, New York Daily News, 25 September 2005
RUN-D.M.C. kick-started the rock-rap movement, helped push hip hop from a cult genre to a platinum force, and made fashion touchstones of black Lee Jeans ...
Interview by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, August 2018
They've survived splits, breakdowns and the unsolved murder of DJ Jam Master Jay, but Run-DMC are still causing hard times for sucker MCs ...
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