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The Neville Brothers, Fishbone: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1984

CLASSY NEVILLES ...

Fishbone = mc2

Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 3 May 1985

Al Einstein, man? He had it all wrong! E isn’t the thing that equals mc2. Fishbone’s riding high off a self-titled cbs ep, rocking down ...

Fishbone: Fishbone (Columbia)

Review by Randall Grass, Spin, July 1985

THIS NEW Fishbone record has a great set of titles: 'Ugly', 'Another Generation', 'Party at Ground Zero', 'Lyin' Ass Bitch', 'V.T.T.L.O.T.RD.G.R.', and '?'. Now, any ...

Fishbone: Champions of the Stoopid

Profile and Interview by Vernon Gibbs, New Look, December 1985

FISHBONE IS the nightmare of every high school teacher who feared that the misfits would take over. After their first appearance in New York, one ...

The Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C., Fishbone: Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 February 1987

BEASTIE BOYS BAPTISM ...

Fishbone: Truth and Soul (Epic)

Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 October 1988

FISHBONE'S PROBLEM is obvious. They're rooted in bitter redundancy and are trying to please too many of the people too much of the time. At ...

Fishbone: Social Skank

Interview by Christine Natanael, Reflex, 1989

GRABBIN' AND RIFFIN', skankin' and ska – there's a revolution happenin'. Combining all the noises, making them all one, Fishbone leads the masses to have ...

Fishbone: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 7 January 1989

Punk with brains ...

Fishbone: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 14 January 1989

SCALING HEIGHTS ...

Fishbone: The Panic Picnic

Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 22 April 1989

IAN GITTINS JOINED L.A.'S GANGLAND WARRIORS ON THE ROAD IN THE UK AND FOUND THAT BEHIND THE RAUCOUS SOUND AND WRECKLESS ATTITUDE LIES A GROUP ...

Fishbone: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 7 March 1990

Fishbone Hooks Fans at the Roxy ...

Black Rock & Roll

Essay by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 4 October 1990

RJ Smith on Living Colour and pop's buried history ...

Fishbone Swims Upstream To Spawn Its Punk-Funk Hybrid

Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, May 1991

IT'S ONLY a rehearsal in a warehouse in a desolate section of downtown L.A. ...

Fishbone: Reality Check

Interview by Bill Holdship, Spin, July 1991

Fishbone is rocking the house as hard as it always has, and the rest of the world is finally listening — between stage dives that ...

Five-string Freestyle: Fishbone's Norwood Fisher

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, September 1993

AS A KID in the '70s, John Norwood Fisher listened intently to Funkadelic's Billy Bass and Aston "Family Man" Barrett from Bob Marley's band. Rather ...

Afropunk Before Afropunk

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 29 August 2014

LAST WEEK, for the first time in years, I missed the Afropunk festival. The musical movement began as an extension of a 2003 documentary of ...

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