Cars, The

The Cars: The Cars

Review by Max Bell, NME, July 1978

I'M NOT at all sure about this band. Their roots place them in the Boston, Massachusetts region which, not being New York or LA, guarantees ...

The Cars: The Bottom Line, New York

Live Review by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, September 1978

ONE THE face of it, one is forced to admit that the Cars, Boston’s latest pop machine, are an entirely unwelcome corruption of any new ...

The Cars: (I Love The Sound Of) Fading Brakes

Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, December 1978

The Cars: Lyceum, London ...

The Cars: Lyceum, London

Live Review by Max Bell, NME, December 1978

THE CARS took the stage to a backing tape of revving engines, the principal mode of presentation for this Boston-based five piece. The house was ...

The Cars: Candy-O (Elektra)

Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, June 1979

THE CARS emerged last year as pace-setters in the American new wave. The platinum status of their debut album probably surprised the band as much ...

The Cars

Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, July 1979

AFTER THE FIRST 500,000 albums, you kind of stop rooting for a band. It's a familiar feeling of having discovered something ahead of the pack, ...

The Cars: Candy-O (Elektra)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, July 1979

THE CARS, Jesuit rock critics harangue, are the new wave at its most specious, manufactured and thus calculated to appease those ultra-reactionary brutes ruling the ...

The Cars: Candy-O

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, October 1979

Candy-O Is Peggy Sue's daughter. Candy-O is this year's model. (Is the band furious that such an obvious title for their second had already been ...

The Cars

Interview by Annene Kaye, New York Rocker, 1982

SHAKING IT UP WITH DAVID (THE ARTISTIC ONE) AND RIC (THE TALL ONE) ...

The Cars: Shake It Up

Review by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, 1982

THE CARS have achieved success the-way Henry Ford build autos – by creating interchangeable, streamlined riffs that are assemble to mass-produce pop hits. In 1982, ...

The Cars: The 50,000 Mile Tune Up

Interview by Roy Trakin, Creem, January 1988

DR. YOGI BUP is the alias Elliot Easton uses when he checks into a room on the road. Imagine that. It's not enough that the ...