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May 12, 2004

Vernon Reid Puts on Masque

Living Colour guitarist takes break to return to jazz roots
August 14, 2003

Living Colour Cover Beatles

First album in ten years due in October
July 25, 2001

Living Colour Go East

Reunited rockers continue their U.S. tour
March 26, 2001

Living Colour Reunite

New album may follow Living Colour tour

Recordings and Reviews

The Chair In The Doorway

"It's a bad time/ To be out of your mind," singer Corey Glover cautions in "Out of Mind," a brute-metal warning about staying sharp for battle on Living Colour's most focused record since their 1988 debut, Vivid. To these black-rock fighters, apocalypse is colorblind. The greed and fallout in...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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Biography

A lot of hard-rock acts imitate Led Zeppelin, but Living Colour is one of the few that managed to emulate the group. Instead of slavishly copping licks from the Zep catalogue, Living Colour appropriated the band's eclecticism and eagerness to experiment, a combination that keeps it from falling victim to the cliches that make most metal so predictable.

After all, how many other hard-rock acts...

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