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150 items by Anthony DeCurtis
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Keith Richards: The Rolling Stone Blues Today | ARTICLE
No band did more to popularize the blues in America than the Rolling Stones. The group's playbook in its early days relied heavily on...
May 25, 1998 12:00 PM ET -
Before These Crowded Streets | ALBUM REVIEW
With the notable exception of its 1994 breakout single, "What Would You Say," Dave Matthews Band has always been more about sound than songs. This continues to be true on the group's propulsive new album, Before These...
April 16, 1998 12:00 AM ET -
Keith Richards' Rastaman Vibrations | ARTICLE
It may have taken him a while, but Keith Richards has finally released an album with a group of musicians he fell in...
April 2, 1998 10:55 AM ET -
Hell Freezes Over | ALBUM REVIEW
Perhaps the two most popular bands of the '70s, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles represented opposite poles of the musical impulses of that time. Having started out as something of an epic blues quartet — the sound...
February 2, 1998 12:00 AM ET -
Wild Mood Swings | ALBUM REVIEW
Unfortunately, there's nothing especially wild about Wild Mood Swings, the Cure's first studio album in four years. In fact, the song remains much the same: Singer and guitarist Robert Smith continues looking for the perfect love, swooning...
February 2, 1998 12:00 AM ET -
Songs From The Capeman | ALBUM REVIEW
Songs from 'The Capeman' is a mongrel project. It isn't the score for the Broadway musical written by Paul Simon and novelist/poet Derek Walcott, but 13 songs (out of 30-odd) selected from the show. Simon himself, not...
November 14, 1997 12:00 AM ET -
Ten Summoner's Tales | ALBUM REVIEW
After the searing catharsis of The Soul Cages (1991), Sting's intensely private eulogy for his father, Ten Summoner's Tales, seems like an intentional crowd pleaser (despite its title, lifted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales): the former Police-man crafting...
July 31, 1997 12:00 AM ET -
Flaming Pie | ALBUM REVIEW
The Beatles' "anthology" projects clearly left Paul McCartney in a reflective frame of mind. Too often in the past, that would mean a douse in a nostalgia bath, but on Flaming Pie, McCartney's look back is a...
June 6, 1997 12:00 AM ET -
Nothing Like The Sun | ALBUM REVIEW
... Nothing Like The Sun — a powerful, often hypnotic album that blends jazz and rock styles into a thoughtful suite of twelve songs about love, politics and the meaning of the individual life — avoids the...
January 22, 1997 12:00 AM ET -
Monster Madness | ARTICLE
Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 693 from October 20, 1994. This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone's...
October 20, 1994 12:00 AM ET -
Kurt Cobain 1967–1994 | ARTICLE
Kurt Cobain never wanted to be the spokesman for a generation, though that doesn't mean much: Anybody who did would never have become...
June 2, 1994 2:15 PM ET -
Sinatra & Sextet: Live In Paris | ALBUM REVIEW
Testosterone, alas, has seen better days. Male rock stars appear in magazines wearing dresses, advertise themselves as losers. Shoegazers trip over mope rockers in their effort to flee reality's bite. Inarticulate fury substitutes for focused masculine force....
May 19, 1994 12:00 AM ET -
Pete Townshend, Opera Man | ARTICLE
In 1993, Pete Townshend brought The Who's Tommy to Broadway and found a third new career for himself – after rock star...
December 23, 1993 12:00 PM ET -
The Rolling Stone Interview: Whitney Houston Down & Dirty | ARTICLE
Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 658 from June 10, 1993. This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone's premium...
June 10, 1993 12:00 AM ET -
Leonard Cohen: No Mercy | ARTICLE
Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 648 from January 21, 1993 . This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling...
January 21, 1993 12:00 AM ET -
Television's Refined Tuning | ARTICLE
Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 647 from January 7, 1993. This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone's premium...
January 7, 1993 12:00 AM ET -
Human Touch | ALBUM REVIEW
With his two new albums — his first in nearly five years and first as a declared solo artist — Bruce Springsteen completes an emotional triptych begun in 1987 with Tunnel of Love. On that album, "Tougher...
April 30, 1992 12:00 AM ET -
Lucky Town | ALBUM REVIEW
With his two new albums — his first in nearly five years and first as a declared solo artist — Bruce Springsteen completes an emotional triptych begun in 1987 with Tunnel of Love. On that album, "Tougher...
April 30, 1992 12:00 AM ET -
Live At The BBC | ALBUM REVIEW
Every age, it seems, gets the Beatles it requires. Ambitious prog rockers of the '70s looked to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as proof that rock & roll could accommodate classical aspirations, with whatever mixed results....
January 25, 1991 12:00 AM ET -
Bruce Springsteen Returns: Joins Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne For Christic Benefit | ARTICLE
When everybody starts believing those big illusions," said Bruce Springsteen from the stage of the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, "you end up...
January 10, 1991 3:40 PM ET
