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Eamon Ra: Psychedelic Sunshine for Dark Times

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments Eamon Ra, Meat Bones Chemicals Electricity, Seattle, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Who

Listen to an exclusive new track from deep in the heart of Jet City by one of its brightest new sons

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

Records

Young Men Take A Look At Your Lives

March 6, 2020March 9, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Elvis Costello, Free Four, Help the Aged, Neil Young, Old & In The Way, Old Man, Picture Book, Pink Floyd, Pulp, She's So Cold, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Magnetic Fields, The Rolling Stones, When I'm Sixty Four, When You're Old and Lonely

10 songs about aging in rock ‘n’ roll from legendary acts in the prime of their youth

Power Pop Punk Remembrance Rock

Farewell Kim Shattuck

February 17, 2020February 21, 2020 Jack Rabid 3 Comments Angry Samoans, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Kim Shattuck, Leaving Trains, No Holiday, Paul Collins’ Beat, Ronnie Barnett, Roy McDonald, The Coolie, The Fastbacks, The Kinks, The Muffs, The Ramones, The Saints, The Who, Troggs, Zeros

A tribute and a belated, rescheduled interview with Muffs bassist Ronnie Barnett, on her life and their band’s final album, No Holiday.

Post-Punk

ALBUMS: Inside Wire’s Hive

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 2020, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Mind Hive, Pink Flag, Pink Floyd, The Go-Betweens, The Kinks, The Who, Wire

43 years after its debut, Mind Hive proves this British punk institution is still making flawless records

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 3: January 2020

January 13, 2020January 14, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Dave Vanian, David Byrne, My Generation, Patti Smith, Ray Davies, Rick Danko, Talking Heads, The Damned, The Kinks, The Who

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

Pop Rock

Dave Davies on the Beauty and Meaning of “Strangers”

January 8, 2020January 10, 2020 Tim Sommer 3 Comments 1970, Aaron Paul, Apple TV+, Dave Davies, Dave Davies interview, Elizabeth Perkins, Jon Gosling, Lizzy Caplan, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Lucius, Norah Jones, Octavia Spencer, Part One, Ray Davies, RNR Globe exclusive, Russell Davies, Strangers cover song, The Kinks, Truth Be Told on Apple TV+, Wye Oak

RNR Globe exclusive interview with the legendary Kinks guitarist about one of the band’s most enduring tunes and also gives a reunion update

Post-Punk

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: Right As Raincoats

January 3, 2020January 10, 2020 Bobby Moore 0 Comments 1979, Ana Da Silva, Gina Birch, Lola, No Side to Fall In, Palmolive, Ray Davies, Rough Trade, The Kinks, The Raincoats, The Slits, WeThree Records

For its 40th anniversary, this sublime new edition from WeThree has been remastered from the original tapes and pressed onto marble vinyl, adorned by new art from founding members Gina Birch and Ana da Silva

Blues Rock

The Animals, The Kinks, and the British Invasion’s Second Wave

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Dave Davies, Eric Burdon, Manfred Mann, Ray Davies, The Animals, The Kinks, The Nashville Teens

As 1964 began coming to a close, the flood of U.K. acts reached critical mass

Blues

Shemekia Copeland: Not Like Everybody Else

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 Bill Kopp 0 Comments Alligator Records, Johnny Copeland, Shemekia Copeland, The Kinks

On her 10th album, the second generation blues great takes it to the streets

Alternative Rock Pop Rock

Wild Honey in the Village Green

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Autism, The Kinks, Wild Honey Orchestra, Wild Honey Organization

All-Star Orchestra to recreate The Kinks’ 1968 pop masterpiece for autism research

Pop Rock

“The Younger Brother Physically Might Be the Older Brother Spiritually”

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Dave Davies, Ray Davies, The Kinks

How Dave Davies’ Decade re-writes the story of The Kinks

Rock

A Decade of Dave

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Dave Davies, Ray Davies, The Kinks

The Kinks’ Second in Kommand offers up ten years’ worth of riches

Blues Country and/or Western Pop Punk Rock

Close Encounters of the Rock Star Kind

October 11, 2018 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Dave Davies, Jim Rodford, Mick Avory, Ray Davies, The Kinks

Catching up with The Kinks

Rock

50th Anniversary Edition of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Announced

August 15, 2018August 15, 2018 Ron Hart 3 Comments 1968, 50th anniversary, British Invasion, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, The Kinks

Listen to the previously unreleased Kinks track “Time Song”

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