Classical Music Globe

Monday, July 14, 2025

(L.A.) Guns In The Sky

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2020, Def Leppard, Frontiers Records, Girl, L.A. Guns, Let You Down, Phil Collen, Phil Lewis, Tracii Guns

With their epic new single, L.A. Guns launch their iconic brand of street smart glam into outer space

Glam Remembrance Rock

Steve Priest Was The Passionate One

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Andy Scott, Ballroom Blitz, Brian Connolly, Fox on the Run, Mick Tucker, Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn, RIP, Steve Priest, Sweet

The renowned glam rocker and Sweet survivor gone at age 72

New Wave Pop Reggae Video

MTV Killed the VIDEOSTAR

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Carey Budnick 2 Comments 999, AC/DC, Bad Manners, Barbara Jones, Body Talk, Buggles, Can’t Get Enough Of You, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Donna Summer, Duran Duran, Eddy Grant, Elvis Costello, Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime, Feels Like I’m In Love, Genesis, Hanging Around, Hazel O’Connor, Human League, Imagination, In And Out Of Love, In The Air Tonight, Intuition, Japan, Johnny And Mary, Just Can’t Get Enough, Just When I Need You Most, Kelly Marie, Kiki Dee, Kim Wilde, Korgis, Leo Sayer, Linx, My Simple Heart, No Reply At All, Obsessed, Olivia Newton-John, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Queen, Quiet Life, Robert Palmer, Sky, Star, Stevie Nicks, The Three Degrees, Thunder In My Heart, Tina Turner, Toccata, Tunnel Of Love, Video Killed The Radio Star, VIDEOSTARS, Walking In The Sunshine, Whitney Houston

An inside look at the world’s very first music compilation for video cassette

Blues Rock

Dion’s American Tune

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Billy Gibbons, Blues With Friends, Bruce Springsteen, Dion, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Vivino, Patti Scialfa, Paul Simon, Rory Block, Sam Cooke, Samantha Fish, Van Morrison

On Blues With Friends, Mr. DiMucci enters his seventh decade in rock with a gang of famous pals

Alternative Rock Rock

Phones, Letters and Frustration: Soul Asylum Meditates On Communication With Hurry Up and Wait

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Jedd Beaudoin 0 Comments 2020, Dave Pirner, Hurry Up and Wait, Loud Fast Words, Michael Bland, Minneapolis, Ryan Smith, Soul Asylum, Winston Roye

Dave Pirner talks exclusively with the Rock & Roll Globe about a busy year put on hold

New Wave

Oh, No! It’s Devo’s 40th anniversary of Freedom of Choice

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Kelley Simms 0 Comments 1980, Alan Myers, Bob Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Devo, Gerard Casale, Girl U Want, Kent State, Mark Mothersbaugh, Ohio, Whip It

Ohio art-rockers’ 1980 record opened the floodgates for the new wave genre in America

Folk Hip Hop

John Forte’s New Album Riddem Drive is a Gift to His Wife and Daughter

June 4, 2020June 9, 2020 Joshua Dudley 0 Comments Ari Melber, George Floyd, George W. Bush, John Forte, MSNBC, Riddem Drive, Talib Kweli, The People's Party

One of the brightest lights of the Fugees multiverse has a lot on his mind

Indie Rock Power Pop

Critical Mass: A Catholic Education at 30

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Eric Davidson 0 Comments 1990, Bandwagonesque, Gerard Cosloy, Gerard Love, Homestead Records, Matador Records, Nirvana, Norman Blake, SPIN, Teenage Fanclub

Talking Teenage Fanclub with Matador Records co-founder Gerard Cosloy about the Scottish pop greats’ debut album

Indie Rock Power Pop

‘I Took The Wrong Direction From A Shooting Star’: Teenage Fanclub’s Grand Prix At 25

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, Bandwagonesque, formed in Bellshill near Glasgow in 1989.[1] The ba Norman Blake, Gerard Love, Grand Prix, Raymond McGinley, Teenage Fanclub

For their third DGC classic, the Fannies put power pop back in the pole position

Music Journalism

Atlantic Records Calls For Pause

June 2, 2020June 3, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Ahmaud Arbery, Atlantic Records, Black Lives Matter, Breonna Taylor, Brianna Agyemang, George Floyd, Jamila Thomas, The Show Must Be Paused

When the label responsible for revolutionizing the impact of black music on American airwaves implores action, we need to listen

Rock Southern Rock

The Allman Brothers Band: A Half Century of Southern Solidarity

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Alice Cooper, Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, Berry Oakley Jr, Black Cat Bones, Brownsville Station, Butch Trucks, Cactus, Canned Heat, Capricorn Records, Cream, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, Fleetwood Mac (1967-1969), Gary Moore’s Skid Row, Gregg Allman, Humble Pie, Jamoie, Killing Floor, Leaf Hound, Nitzinger, Pot Liquor, Savoy Brown, Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack, Status Quo, Tear Gas, Ten Years After, the Groundhogs, Trouble No More, Vinegar Joe, Warren Haynes

A definitive new box set looks back at a career that defied the racial divide in America

jazz

ALBUMS: Dave Feels Dizzy

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Michael Toland 0 Comments Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill Frisell, Clifford Brown, Dave Douglas, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Gerald Clayton, Lee Morgan, Linda Han Oh, Miles Davis

On the excellent Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity, the NYC trumpet great pays respect to the master

Soul

The New National Anthem

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments A Change Is Gonna Come, George Floyd, Malcolm X, Minneapolis, RCA Victor, Sam Cooke, Soul, Spike Lee

How the enduring message of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” still brings us light in our darkest hour

Hip Hop Music Journalism

Killer Mike: “It Is Your Duty Not to Burn Your Own House Down For Anger With An Enemy”

May 31, 2020June 1, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Atlanta, George Floyd, Killer Mike, Mrs. Alice Johnson, Reverend James Orange, Reverend Love, Run The Jewels

Read the full transcript of the Run The Jewels rapper’s emotional speech

New Wave Progressive Rock Rock

Geopolitical Jams and No Cymbals: Peter Gabriel (3) at 40

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980, Biko, Games Without Frontiers, Genesis, Melt, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Public Image Ltd., Robert Fripp

How Peter Gabriel’s melting face set the pace for the ’80s