Cynthia Rose
1995 to present Film, writing, Web design, content and consultancies; staff reporter, The Seattle Times, 1995-2000; film and radio work: BBC-TV, BBC Radio Four and BBC Five Live, MTV Europe News, National Public Radio. Archived writing online from autumn 2001 at www.rocksbackpages.com; selections from 1996-2000 at www.seattletimes.com. Independent producer of arts coverage via film, print and Web content.
Books "TRADE SECRETS: Young British Talents Talk Business", Thames & Hudson (Dec, 1999); "DESIGN AFTER DARK: The Story of Dancefloor Style" (Thames & Hudson, UK & US, 1994-present); "LIVING IN AMERICA: The Soul Saga of James Brown" (Serpent's Tail, UK & US, 1992-present); Contributor to: "SNEAKERS: Size Isn't Everything" (Milk/Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1999); "COOL CATS 25 Years of Rock & Roll Style" (Eel Pie/St Martin's); "Anatomy of the Movies" (Macmillan); "TIME OUT GUIDE to the Cinema" (1989-yearly).
125 articles
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Brian Eno, David Bowie, Iggy Pop: Oblique Strategies
Essay by Cynthia Rose, Harpers & Queen, 1979
Cynthia Rose looks at artist/musicians David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop (touring Britain this month) and the risks they are taking with electronics, Expressionism ...
King Crimson, Robert Fripp: A Chat with Mr. Fripp
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Viz, 1980
ROBERT FRIPP is a musician, theoretician, theologian and, as his colleague David Bowie (referred by Fripp as "Mr. B") points out, "probably the man with ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Viz, 1980
Some Facts About Madness, Rape, Zombies, And Other Intense Human Behaviour ...
Profile and Interview by Cynthia Rose, Viz, 1980
GENERALLY there exists a dichotomy between pioneering artists and their audiences – the potetial appreciator is apt to be surprised, disturbed, or simply unaccustomed to ...
The B-52s: They Came From Behind The Luncheonette Counter!!!
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Viz, 1980
The B52s, of Athens, Georgia, are the first cult band who look like surviving the transition into a new decade their music is individual ...
The Frontier Ethic of Anti-Fashion
Overview by Cynthia Rose, The Virgin Yearbook, 1980
THOUGH THE dictionary defines it as "the prevailing customs and usages of upper-class society, especially in dress", fashion is really a way to re-spell thievery. ...
The Tourists: Overcoming A Bad Press
Interview by Cynthia Rose, A.M., 1980
THE TOURISTS ARE A BAND WHO feel theyve proved that pressures to conform and problems of access neednt be insuperable barriers. They were founded two ...
Brian Eno: Into The Spirit World
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 26 July 1980
The White Man's Grave Look to Africa ...
Led Zeppelin: Bonzo's Last Bash – Is It The End For Zeppelin Too?
Report by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 4 October 1980
EARLY LAST Thursday afternoon Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones went up to one of the guest bedrooms in Jimmy Page's £900,000 Windsor house, where ...
The Ramones: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 11 October 1980
"Despair of nothing you would attain, Unwearied diligence your point will gain!" Men Who Have Risen, John Hogg, 1847. ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 15 November 1980
SOME TIME ago. Neil Young produced American Stars And Bars originally intended as a concept album which would offer one set of songs about ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 22 November 1980
IT WAS late in the '30s when New York cemented its claim as America's most energetic and insistent symbol of urban eroticism and urbane careerism. ...
The Roches: Three Degrees Of Sisterhood
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 13 December 1980
FROM C&W to modern rock musics, men can weep like girls and girls can come on like men (or eccentric Little Cookies like The Slits), ...
The Sweetheart Years: The Dilemmas Of Sex And Romance In Fifties Rock
Essay by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1981
The screen door slams/Mary's dress waves/Like a vision she dances across the porch/As the radio plays/Roy Orbison singin' for the lonely/That's me and I love ...
The B-52s: The B-52’s: Hair Today Gone Tomorrow?
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 3 January 1981
The Bouffants That Broke The Box Office: A Boffo Success Story by Cynthia Rose ...
Jim Carroll: The Jim Carroll Band: Catholic Boy (Atco)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 31 January 1981
BLOND, FLESHLY-FACED and 30 years old, Jim Carroll was slated for status as a rock poet back in '71. Meant to be the other half ...
Postmark: Austin, Texas — The Demise of the Armadillo and the Rise of Garagelend Punk
Report by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 7 March 1981
IF YOU PAID to survive The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and saw it as anything other than a blackly anarchic polemic in favour of vegetarianism, then ...
Eurythmics: We're Not Tourists, We Live Here
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 7 March 1981
HUNCHED OVER scrambled eggs in his mother's airy flat, Dave Stewart looks more like the late John Lennon than the D'Artagnan-style dandy familiar from The ...
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Hard Promises (MCA)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 23 March 1981
WITH THE release of 'American Girl' back in '76, Tom Petty asserted that ability to articulate a native territory – both inherited and imagined – ...
Dolly Mixture: These Are The Dollies Who Mixed It With The Macho Music Biz And Lost
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 2 May 1981
Cynthia Rose meets some '80s girls who've suffered rock sexploitation. ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 20 June 1981
The worst thing about labels is their sticky side. But the next worst thing about them is that they attract flies, and that can put ...
David Bowie: Bowie For Breakfast: Angie Bowie’s Free Spirit
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981
Davids golden years get shredded as Angie spills half baked beans. ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 11 July 1981
It's been a long, long wait since the Fab Four from Forest Hills foolishly put their genius into the mono-maniacal hands of noted has-been Phil ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy: Always a Sucker for a Good Party
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 18 July 1981
IGGY POP, American entertainer and war poet, has just issued an eleventh album, and the day we met he'd weathered ten promotional interviews. "So much ...
Marianne Faithfull: Dangerous Acquaintances (Island)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 26 September 1981
FAST COMPANY, slow daze... Marianne Faithfull was once merely an incandescent 'inspiration' to the men and the merchandisers of rock. Now she has become one ...
Invasion Of The Walkmen People
Report by Cynthia Rose, City Limits, 16 October 1981
It was was back in 1964 when Andy Warhol married his cassette machine. "The acquisition of my tape recorder" he revealed eleven years later, "really ...
The Ramones: The Thinking Men of Pop
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 21 November 1981
NO TEMPO FUGIT FOR THE FOUR RAMONES — JUST BUSINESS UNUSUAL AS USUAL "Four tickets to the Ray-mones is it, dear?" enquires the little lady ...
How Music Changed The Look Of American Youth
Essay by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982
BY 1962, ROCK'N'ROLL was no longer the pressing issue it had appeared in the days of Teddy Boys and juvenile delinquency. Music had given way ...
Peppermint Pop: Music, Art And The New York ‘In-Crowd’
Retrospective by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982
The Twist was a phenomenon of a commercial musical culture which, ever since its early boom in the mid-Fifties, had been looked down upon by ...
Retrospective by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982
ON 16 FEBRUARY 1979, Elvis Costello and the Attractions performed Leon Paynes 1974 country anomaly Psycho at Hollywoods Palomino Club and, late in 1981, the ...
The Blank Generation — How Rock Moved From Political Opposition to Sheer Nihilism
Essay by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982
ROCK HAS ALWAYS been about cultural and social conflict, ever since its birth in the Memphis-style boogie (over-amplified 'jump' tunes whose driving rhythms kept country ...
The Dilemmas of Sex and Romance in Fifties Rock
Essay by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982
The screen door slamsMary's dress wavesLike a vision she dances across the porchAs the radio playsRoy Orbison singin' for the lonelyThat's me and I love ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
HEAVY METAL has one of the longer and more honourable traditions as a "musical influence" in rock, yet its recent renaissance is by and large ...
The Doors: Jim Morrison: An Hour For Magic
Book Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 12 June 1982
"BY THE TIME he left for Paris in March of 1971", Jim Morrison: An Hour for Magic tells us, "the friends he could depend on ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 14 August 1982
"You know who I've been digging a lot lately, not as a performer but as a singer? Lene Lovich. I really dig her music." Iggy ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 14 August 1982
TIME FOR another recharge from my choice in chutzpah-driven indies: Neil Lets Get This Party Started Coopers Reach Out International Records (ROIR). Former booking agent ...
Rod Stewart: Britt Ekland: True Britt
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 28 August 1982
WHAT BUT the magic of cassette (and the greed of the Decca Corp) could possibly bring you "True" Britt Ekland, Svedish accent und all, whispering ...
Billy Childish, The Milkshakes: Shake Some Action! The Milkshakes
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 2 October 1982
Cynthia Rose gets all shook up with the Milkshakes, as Wild Billy Childish puts the froth on the garageland daydream. ...
Blondie: Animal House: Chris Stein, Blondie, and Animal Records
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 13 November 1982
MUSICIAN/PHOTOGRAPHER Chris Stein has spent the last four years becoming what some Americans consider "a compulsive over-achiever", and others call 'an enthusiast'. ...
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 20 November 1982
The Go-Go's: Lyceum, London ...
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Tom Petty
Interview by Cynthia Rose, City Limits, 3 December 1982
With his 1976 debut album, Tom Petty became a rock star. It seemed he was cast in the classic mould – a hip young American ...
Television: The Blow Up (ROIR)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 11 December 1982
BACK IN the mid-'70s then-rock journalist Patti Smith penned the following valentine to Tom Verlaine's Television: "Boycott rock and roll on TV – who wants ...
Retrospective and Interview by Cynthia Rose, unpublished, 1983
THE SPACE inside our souls where real dreams arise is created by a particular breed of gambler: the emotional, sexually aware, desperately honest human who ...
Maria Muldaur: Ave Maria (And Three Hosannas!): Maria Muldaur at Ronnie Scott’s, London
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 1983
FIVE YEARS ago New Years Eve, I watched Maria Muldaur seize a packed house at the closing of the gigantic Armadillo World Headquarters – last ...
The Meteors, The Morells: The Meteors: Wreckin’ Crew (I-D); The Morells: Shake And Push (Borrowed)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 1983
LIKE THE bourbon and Benzedrine which fuelled it, rockabilly never really fades from popularity despite its repressive formula, but it often seems to suffer the ...
The Ramones: Subterranean Jungle (Sire)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 1983
THE RAMONES have been responsible for two truly great albums (The Ramones and Rocket to Russia) and they have yet to produce a single longplayer ...
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 29 January 1983
Nico: The Venue, London ...
Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 5 February 1983
WHEN ANNIE LENNOX and Dave Stewart opened for Roxy's 'comeback' as two-fifths of The Tourists, I thought there was definitely something there, but I never ...
Pat Benatar: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 12 February 1983
LIKE THE rest of the full house on Friday night, I was actually looking forward to seeing Pat Benatar, despite our previous encounters on vinyl. ...
Ric Ocasek : Richard Ocasek: Beatitude
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 19 February 1983
WITH THE Human League's American success, Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' now the longest-lasting single in the history of Billboard's Hot Hundred, and MTV deluging the ...
Lene Lovich: Slav Siren To Play Mata Hari
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, March 1983
MARLENE PREMILOVICH professionally, Lene Lovich has been out of the musical limelight for awhile, since the January 1980 release of Flex and a ...
Rank and File: Rank & File: Sundown (Slash Records)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 5 March 1983
RANK & FILE are a rather unusual four-piece: a Commie punk country band who've accrued a national reputation in America with record speed. Mind you, ...
Lou Reed: Legendary Hearts (RCA)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 19 March 1983
What made The Blue Mask Lou Reeds watershed album was his choice of musicians, a new wave super-set of them Fernando Saunders on bass, ...
Letter from Britain: The Beautiful And The Damned Hit Pay Dirt
Report by Cynthia Rose, Creem, April 1983
'RECESSION ROCK' on the radio (cf. 'My City Was Gone', 'Allentown' or 'Out of Work') may call forth condemnations from America's urban mayors — many, ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, City Limits, 1 April 1983
This week sees the opening of Smithereens, a low-budget feature film by Manhattan film school grad Susan Seidelman. Initially an experiment shot in 1980, it ...
The Ramones: Ramones: Subterranean Jungle
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 2 April 1983
THE RAMONES have been responsible for two truly great albums (Ramones and Rocket to Russia) and they've yet to produce a single longplayer that couldn't ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 9 April 1983
THE LATEST trio of ROIR cassettes expands the label's category of historical documentation – a division which offers some excuse for the fact that Reachout ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 16 April 1983
Cynthia Rose Gabbas on the blower to the punk with subterranean Ramone (SIC!) blues. ...
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, City Limits, 3 June 1983
IN THE DAYS of Beau Brummell or even Baudelaire, to be a dandy was to be a true social outlaw – one whose fixed individuality ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 4 June 1983
Today's environment a dizzying mélange of neon, advertisement, slum detritus and 'junk culture' has fascinated artists and poets since the 1950s. But not ...
Glenn Branca: Riverside Studios, London
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 18 June 1983
ACCORDING TO his UK press release, Glenn Branca's work "demands (and always receives) superlatives". Hyperbole would be more accurate, but given the avalanche of attention ...
The Blasters: Non-Fiction (Slash)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 16 July 1983
OVER THE past three years, white American musics been getting a real recharge from several California couples: John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X, Chip ...
Lita Ford: Out for Blood (Phonogram)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 6 August 1983
LADY ROCKERS who hurl the epithet "sweet thang" at their listeners do everything for me that over-friendly taxi drivers accomplish — or Chrissie Hynde live ...
The Cramps: Zip Guns In The Junkyard!
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 13 August 1983
GEEK MAGGOT BINGO IS THE film that trade Bible Variety characterised a "one geek, few maggots and no bingo". A lot they know! ...
MC5: Babes In Arms (ROIR cassette)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 20 August 1983
IDEALLY VLADIMIR Mayakovsky should be sitting down to this review, because never before or since has there been a band quite like the MC5 – ...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Texas Flood (Epic)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 27 August 1983
DAVID BOWIE didn't discover Stevie Ray, the power blues specialist who by the sound of this solo LP was sorely tempered on Bowie's tepid Let's ...
The Ramones: If All Men Were Brudders
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, September 1983
LONDON – The brothers Ramone – four schlepps whose schleppiness transmogrified the traumas of career adolescence into an entire art form – constitute America's greatest ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 10 September 1983
HIPPITY HOP! ...
The Stray Cats: Stray Cats: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 10 September 1983
BACK FROM the fruited plains of America, where their wide wardrobe selection and the videos which enshrine it have snatched the preteen population from the ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 17 September 1983
This LP — Lofgren's first since 81 — sails off on a gritty, catchy duet with Edgar Winter, then slides into a loner ballad ('Into ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 8 October 1983
Stroud Green Road is one of London's more depressing thoroughfares. Noisy, dirty and deprived, it looks as if the buildings which line this lead-perfumed thruway ...
The Dils, Rank and File: Life After Punk: Rank and File
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 29 October 1983
Rank and Files Founders Chip and Tony Kinman walked out on hardcore punk stardom to take up their "white trash influences in country music. ...
Essay by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1984
In the heyday of Elvis, Chuck Berry or the Beatles, radio was revered. It constituted rocknrolls channel to the teen heart, and it struck out ...
T Bone Burnett: T-Bone Steak, Rattle and Roll
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 7 January 1984
November 21. A cool, inky evening in Fort Worth, Texas – the kind of town where a lonesome moan from the Mystery Train still pierces ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 14 January 1984
IT'S ALMOST like standing with my stilettoes planted on the very threshold of Club Yes. ...
The Sex Pistols: Nancy Spungen: If You Knew Nancy…
Book Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 21 January 1984
IF ANYTHING CAN PUT THE LID on the Romeo and Juliet myth that has enshrined Nancy Spungen in the post-punk hagiography, it will be a ...
Laurie Anderson: Mister Heartbreak (WEA)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 3 March 1984
Somewhere Over Gravity's Rainbow ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 24 March 1984
Manchester trio Carmel claim the press hyped them into early cult status — as hangers-on in the torch song zone. Meanwhile, they have embarked on ...
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 31 March 1984
Smacked Bottoms ...
Debbie Harry: Bottle Debbie Harry
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, April 1984
They couldn't help but notice herShe was fatally beautiful;Ever since she was a girl,She was fatally beau-ti-ful. T-Bone Burnett, Fatally Beautiful, 1983 ...
Marvin Gaye: Into the City of Angels
Report by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 14 April 1984
GAYE FUNERAL REPORT • FATHER CHARGED ...
Jason & The Scorchers: Jason and the Scorchers: Fervor
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 21 April 1984
EVEN ALLOWING for the Women's Wear Daily pop-corn which often passes as critical comparison in rock I can't help but loathe this catchall term "cowpunk". ...
Jason & The Scorchers: Rhinestone Ploughboys: Jason and the Scorchers
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 5 May 1984
Blues, country and heavy metal!...Can this really be the lethal cocktail that has gained The Scorchers Nashville respectability? CYNTHIA ROSE settles down to a ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 19 May 1984
WEIRD HOW male listeners have to go through this whole process of Coming To Terms with the GoGos' musically simplistic, sentimentally sophisticated hybrid of high ...
Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George: Bohemian!
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, June 1984
Were they rebels? Were they artists? Were they outcasts from society? They were all of these. They were the Bohemians. These bohemians, Mr. and Mrs. ...
T Bone Burnett: Proof Thru The Night
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, June 1984
ROCK MUSIC may know few true gentlemen. But those it does possess are liable to embody the best of that extraordinary flamboyance, imagination and hope ...
The Special AKA: In the Studio (2 Tone)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 4 August 1984
MOST LISTENERS who would snap up In the Studio own the majority of it already, as singles or B-sides. And with the release of its ...
Report by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984
This summer an 82 year-old former boxer, shoeshine boy and burlesque costumier from Brooklyn died in Los Angeles. His name was Nudie Cohen and he ...
Big Mama Thornton: Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton 1926-1984
Obituary by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 18 August 1984
ONE OF the founding careers in rock and roll ended on Wednesday, July 25, when a heart attack took the life of Willie Mae ‘Big ...
Fred Maher, Robert Quine: Robert Quine and Fred Maher: Basic (Editions EG)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 25 August 1984
NOT LONG ago, someone asked me if the 'EG' in EG Records stood for Egghead and I foolishly told them no. Now Egghead Records have ...
Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Lizzy Mercier Descloux (CBS)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 1 September 1984
LIZ — BACK AND BOUNCY ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 1 September 1984
IN 1976 TOM Miller aka Verlaine ended a published poem with the line "I shall contrive an envy so strong that its object will disappear". ...
Spinal Tap: This Is Spinal Tap
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 8 September 1984
Director: Rob Reiner; Starring: Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 8 September 1984
Nobody could have told me how Robert Wyatt's cover of Cuban pop star Pop star Pablo Milan´es' 'Yolanda' was going to capture my ear more ...
Spinal Tap: The Spinal Solution
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 8 September 1984
Cynthia Rose shares a wake-up cuppa with Derek Smalls, Nigel Tufnel and David St Hubbins, the unlikely rockers who made it from New York back ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 29 September 1984
RARELY IS the 'singer-songwriter' allowed any natural patience to heed the rushing waters of emotion and experience; and in the current singer-songwriter boom, it seems ...
The Cult: The Cultivation Of A Better Noise
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 6 October 1984
The tribal panavisuals of The Cult have rallied hordes. But CYNTHIA ROSE discovered the true extension chords lurking in the minds behind the war-paint. DEREK ...
Laurie Anderson: Missus Heartbreak
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 27 October 1984
CYNTHIA ROSE lends an ear to a jetlagged LAURIE ANDERSON and hears the call of the riled from a multi-media star whose fame has induced ...
The Ramones: Now I Wanna Play My Five-Iron!!
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 10 November 1984
It had to happen. The hardcore epidemic sweeping America has re-inspired punk godparents the Ramones to make a GENUINE BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM more original (and more ...
Madonna: Virgin On The Ridiculous: Madonna: Like A Virgin (Sire)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 17 November 1984
WATCHING A TALENT as genuine and grounded as that of Cyndi Lauper pull off those pop Partonisms necessitated by the nature of today's marketplace is ...
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 1985
THE LONG Ryders, Lone Justice, Blasters and the rest? Forget em! Sir Doug has returned to show these punks how good "rock and roll from ...
The Judds: Of Mums & Grammys: The Judds
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 20 April 1985
Part deep country and part cosmopolitan, this mom and daughter team have lived a Cinderella story which stood even Nashville on its ear. Now, No ...
Jason & The Scorchers: Jason And The Scorchers: Blazing Saddles
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 25 May 1985
"SEE, UP to this point this record, this tour I fought with the fact that I was 'a rock and roll singer'. ...
Madonna: Virgin Pruned!: Madonna: Convention Center, Dallas
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 25 May 1985
MULTI-MEDIA SUCCESS has made Madonna America's first generic pop star — and her first foray into live performance brought forth a capacity house of young ...
The Judds: That John Deere Factor
Profile and Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, July 1985
DALLAS — AT age 18, Naomi Judd of Ashland, Kentucky, defaulted on her high school graduation: she was in a hospital giving birth to daughter ...
Bobby Womack: Live at the Dallas Arcadia
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 21 September 1985
"BLACK MUSIC is being broken down. It's no longer black music. This is not a discussion or argument...what I'm saying is that it's a reaffirmation ...
Report by Cynthia Rose, Vogue, 1986
Aginners, glyphies, rednecks, rattlesnakes, conjunto, honky-tonk and wheatberry pancakes: Austin is the cultural nexus of Texas. ...
Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol: Parallel Lives
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 11 January 1986
FRANK TALK WITH DEBBIE ...
The Judds: Judds: Rockin' With The Rhythm (RCA)
Review by Cynthia Rose, Creem, April 1986
A LONG YEAR on the road has honed Wynonna Judd's voice into probably the finest female instrument of country music today. ...
Essay by Cynthia Rose, Creem, June 1986
ELITISM. DICTIONARIES call it "the sense of being part of a superior or privileged group." On the street, it's more familiar as hipnitude, or novelty. ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground: Another View
Review by Cynthia Rose, Creem, September 1986
INTO THE HANDS of today's waiting worshippers and yet, the mystery remains. ...
X: Billy Zoom’s Out, But X Goes On
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, Dallas Observer, 28 November 1986
"THE ONE 'MESSAGE' X HAS AS A BAND," John Doe once told me, "is that whether you fit in or not, you can be ...
Dwight Yoakam: Hillbilly Hipster
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Mail On Sunday, 12 April 1987
DWIGHT YOAKAM was eight years old when he wrote his first song: an American lament patterned after those of 1940s blue mountain balladeers the Stanley ...
The Stupids: Stupidity Maketh The Men
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
Not dumb, maybe a little deaf by now...UK thrash stylists The Stupids step off their skatin wheels and entertain Cynthia Rose with tales of ordinary ...
James Brown: James Brown By James Brown with Bruce Tucker (Sidgwick & Jackson, £12.95)
Book Review by Cynthia Rose, The Wire, November 1987
JAMES BROWN is the Andy Warhol of sound — it's just not possible to imagine modern music without him. Nor could there be a more ...
Soul II Soul: Jazzie B and the New Black Economy
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Statesman, 17 June 1988
A thriving underground enterprise culture has grown up around music bootlegged vinyl, pirate radio, warehouse parties. Its a black economy powered by black aesthetics ...
Profile and Interview by Cynthia Rose, Dallas Observer, 18 August 1988
"YOU KNOW HOW overrated this club business is, psychologically," Dewey Groom is saying, shaking his head. "People think it's a good-time job. They think it's ...
The Strange Odyssey Of Acid House
Report by Cynthia Rose, Dallas Observer, 23 February 1989
LONDON – On February 9, 1989, the mutant musical movement known as Acid House made it into The Dallas Morning News for the second time ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, The Observer, October 1989
A mix of songs that paint pictures, with women and God driving the music and the marketing machine, have spawned a Soul II Soul empire. ...
A Hard Graff For A Piece Of The Action
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, The Observer, 22 April 1990
Cynthia Rose says in Europe they know the writing's on the wall. ...
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, Sunday Correspondent, 29 April 1990
The duties of KISS pirate radio DJs once included rigging rooftop transmitters and guarding the door. Now Saatchis are telling them: "Your account is worth ...
James Brown: He’s Brown And He’s Proud
Profile and Interview by Cynthia Rose, The Observer, 16 September 1990
"NOT TOO MANY people can really set a precedent," James Brown told me. "But then, I was never too traditional about music." What an understatement. ...
Nirvana: Sub Pop: See Label For Details — An Interview with Bruce Pavitt
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Dazed & Confused, 1994
In 1979, when he was a college student, Bruce Pavitt started a fanzine called Subterranean Pop. Although the hipsters around him were pushing UK imports, ...
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