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Urban Cowboy: Country Music Stretches Its Legs
Report by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, August 1980
WHILE THE rock-crit establishment continues to ponder the future of new wave and the death of disco, U.S. music fans are quietly gravitating toward some ...
Blondie, Debbie Harry: Blondie's Debbie Harry (2003)
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages Audio, 7 July 2003
Elle ne regrette rien: La Harry on Blondie then and now, NYC then and now, on art and movies, on Chris Stein, and on the latest Blondie album The Curse of Blondie
File format: mp3; file size: 67.8meg, interview length: 1h 10' 40" sound quality: **
Missy Elliott: Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly (EastWest)
Review by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, January 1998
Hip hop's hottest singer/rapper/producer cuts her own album. Mixes original music, samples, beats, big name guest rappers and singers. Result: modern urban black music of ...
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, January 1998
AT THIS moment she's so far out, floating in her own self-programmed audiogalactic, that no one else in hip hop or R&B can touch her. ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 25 October 1997
MISSY "Misdemeanour" Elliott has been an invisible but insistent pivot of the pop world. ...
Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 6 December 1997
She writes Number Ones! Makes "wacky" videos! Is, like, totally fly! And MISSY "MISDEMEANOR" ELLIOTT, rap's brightest new talent, has come to save us… ...
Mickey Gilley: Too Good To Stop: Greatest Hits 1974-1985
Review by John Morthland, No Depression, 30 April 2007
RARELY HAS A single disc better traced one career's rise and fall. In 15 pre-stardom years of recording, Gilley could best be described as "like ...
Mark Hollis, Talk Talk: Mark Hollis: A life in music
Retrospective by Chris Roberts, Prog, 4 January 2020
A look at the career of the late Talk Talk frontman who died in 2019... ...
Radiohead: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2000
CONFUSED, SCHIZOPHRENIC, sneering and intense yet sometimes transported by innocent joy – Radiohead's audience sure are a strange crowd. The crossover-cult idols' first English gig ...
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