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Guns N' Roses: Raising Hell in the City of Angels

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 4 April 1987

Over on L.A.'s Santa Monica Boulevard, rock renegades GUNS N' ROSES are having a ball. PAUL ELLIOTT parrys shots with L.A.'s scuzziest scumbags. ...

Cutmaster DC, King Sun: Hip Hop Wig Out '87 #3: The Harlem Shuffle — King Sun and Cutmaster DC

Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 4 April 1987

IN THE THIRD OF OUR REPORTS on rap's now explosion of new talents, Frank Owen journeys to Harlem to bring you the news on happening ...

Poison: America Gets Poisoned

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 16 April 1987

Last year an LA indie album hit the streets called Look What The Cat Dragged In. It took 12 days and $23,000 to record. A ...

Beastie Boys, The, Run DMC, Oran "Juice" Jones, Slayer: Def Jam: Baaad Company

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987

With their label gone mega, and even greater triumphs planned, Def Jam mainmen RICK RUBIN and RUSSELL SIMMONS currently combine the Midas touch with the ...

Run DMC, Beastie Boys, The, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Slayer, Tashan, Oran "Juice" Jones, Cult, The: Dawn of the Def

Overview by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987

The wit and wisdom of DEF JAM as captured in the NME. From Rick Rubin as hipster to Beastie Boys as Sex Zeppelin and beyond. ...

The Beastie Boys: Burden of the Beasties

Report and Interview by Jack Barron, The Guardian, 23 May 1987

WHEN THE Beastie Boys step on stage in Brixton tonight at the start of their British tour everyone – the media, authorities, and fans alike ...

Beastie Boys, The: The Beastie Boys: So Long, Suckers!

Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, June 1987

A curse has come upon the youth of America. It turns boys into beer-swilling, lecherous nerds. It makes girls dress with scant regard for common ...

Cult, The: The Cult: Ritz, NYC

Live Review by Abby Weissman, East Coast Rocker, June 1987

THE NIGHT the Cult played the Ritz on a few hours' notice was such a perfect media event, a seasoned rock publicist couldn’t have schemed ...

The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Slayer: Def Jam: Don't Knock The Rock – Rap It

Report by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 1 June 1987

Mark Cooper on how Def Jam crossed over punk with rap, white with black, and stayed cool with both sides ...

Guns N' Roses, Jane's Addiction: Guns N' Roses: The Subterraneans

Report and Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 6 June 1987

Something's crawling from the gutters of Los Angeles, something bright and proud and bad, something making claims on setting a scene. Jonh Wilde took a ...

Beastie Boys, The, Run DMC: Run DMC, The Beastie Boys: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 6 June 1987

FRIGGIN' AND SWIGGIN! ...

Guns N' Roses: Colt Heroes

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 11 June 1987

"KNOW WHAT I want to do? Really want to do? Go over to Japan and pollute it. I'm not talking about drugs, I'm talking about ...

Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat (Elektra K96 07301) ****

Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 11 July 1987

FELINE GROOVY ...

The Replacements: Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me

Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, August 1987

LIKE SOME STRAY dog you find in an alley, Minneapolis's Replacements are a scruffy mongrel of a band: uncontrollable and ugly, but somehow irresistable. You ...

Anthrax: The Mad 'Thraxmen

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 8 August 1987

Who would have believed six months ago that New York speed metal bruisers ANTHRAX would have had not one but two UK chart to their ...

Faster Pussycat, Guns N' Roses: Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen) **; Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat (Elektra) **

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1987

WHAM, GLAM, NO THANK YOU, MA'AM ...

Aerosmith

Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, October 1987

"WHAT IF BEINGS from another dimension telepathically force us to change our moral overview? What then??" ...

Cult, The, Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard: Heavy Metal: The Sound Too Dense to Die

Comment by James Hunter, L.A. Weekly, 16 October 1987

TWENTY SUMMERS ago, it was love. In 1987 it was metal, pop-metal, ushered in by Bon Jovi's much less musicianly 7-mil play on Van Halen's ...

Aerosmith: Permanent Vacation (Geffen)

Review by Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 22 October 1987

ALTHOUGH AEROSMITH was slagged for nearly two decades as sloppy Stones seconds, the band was finally given hip vindication last year by Run-D.M.C. And what ...

Guns N' Roses: Paradise Theater, Boston

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 29 October 1987

New band that's special ...