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Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 9 February 1989

THE AMBASSADORS OF LITE-METAL MUSIC HEAD OUT TO EXPORT NEW JERSEY TO RUSSIA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD ...

Judds, The: The Judds: Kentucky dreamers

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 10 February 1989

The Judds' story is worthy of a country song. Adam Sweeting on the long road from Morrill, Kentucky, to the Dominion, London. ...

Metallica Moves to Center Stage

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 March 1989

LAKELAND, Fl. — Just as Metallica helped change the face of the Grammys — it was one of five acts nominated for the first-ever hard-rock/metal ...

Poison: Cat Scratch Fever

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, RAW, 7 March 1989

They say 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'. Or at least POISON do in the title of their current hit single. And certainly the Los Angeles ...

Mudhoney: Sub Pop, Sub Normal, Subversion!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 March 1989

SUDDENLY SEATTLE IS THE CENTRE OF ALL THINGS GRUNGE. EVERETT TRUE TRAVELS TO THE HOME OF THE ANTI-HITS TO MEET MUDHONEY WHO RECENTLY TRADED SONGS ...

Beat Happening, Green River, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Tad, Walkabouts, The, Thrown Ups, The, Blood Circus, Girl Trouble, Fluid, The, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Terry Lee Hale, Fastbacks, Chemistry Set, Nights And Days, The, Cat Butt, Steve Fisk, Swallow: Sub Pop — Seattle: Rock City

Overview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 March 1989

RIGHT NOW, MUDHONEY ARE THE STANDARD BEARERS FOR SEATTLE'S NEW GENERATION OF THRASH METAL MERCHANTS, BUT THERE IS A LEGION OF OTHER BANDS READY AND ...

Jane's Addiction: Something's Shocking

Interview by Steve Mascord, Hot Metal, April 1989

"Camera's got them images, Camera's got them all, Showed me everybody, naked and disfigured, Nothing's Shocking." — From 'Ted, Just Admit It', Jane's Addiction ...

Anthrax, Living Colour: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 1 April 1989

FAVOURITE COLOURS ...

Dark Angel: Californian Dreams – Shedding Light On The Angels

Interview by Christine Natanael, Metal Hammer, 1 May 1989

OUT OF THE SEARING underground of Los Angeles, an unlikely place for speed/death metal in the wake of such like bands as Guns N' Roses, ...

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys: Tom Petty: Once In A Full Moon

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 5 May 1989

BY THE time Tom Petty became a Traveling Wilbury last year, he had every reason to stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Roy ...

Danielle Dax: Danielle In The Lions' Den

Interview by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 6 May 1989

Though branded flippant and eccentric, Danielle Dax refuses to knuckle under to labels. Uncovering her music's mix of malice and humour, Robin Gibson hears why ...

Big Daddy Kane: Raw Like Sushi

Interview by Sean O'Hagan, NME, 6 May 1989

Christened The Grasshopper Of Rap for his black belt lyrics, Big Daddy Kane is a hero to rap's hard core followers. With hits for Roxanne ...

Mudhoney: Angels With Muddy Faces

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989

MUDHONEY's music is a wild thing — garage grunge and Iggy-style abandon. In person they're mild-mannered, middle class Americans with a hopeless addiction to Sham 69 ...

Radio's Rock of Ages

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 June 1989

Is the classic-rock format dictating which acts record companies sign? ...

Tone Loc: Raising the Tone

Report and Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 24 June 1989

Wild Thing! You make my bank account sing. In the last six months West Coast rapper TONE LOC has sold over six million records. His ...

Texas: New Morning, Paris

Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 24 June 1989

I DON'T know if I can get across to you just how depressing it is to be standing, sweating in a tiny Parisian jazz club ...

John Lydon, Public Image Ltd: John Lydon: …Heeere's Johnny!

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, July 1989

IN THE BAR OF the North London rehearsal studio complex, John Lydon, wearing a typically loud shirt, a pair of unorthodox dark spectacles and the ...

Nirvana: Bleach (Sub Pop import US LP only)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, NME, 8 July 1989

REAL ROCK music should hurt. Like being too near an exploding plate glass window, it should get under your skin and cause you to writhe ...

Cynthia Plastercaster: This Woman Has Handled The Biggest Things In Rock

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 8 July 1989

Twenty years ago The Plastercasters of Chicago were the most infamous groupies in America. Now, hardened professional CYNTHIA PLASTERCASTER is back with tales of naked ...

Beastie Boys, The, Wolfsbane, Rick Rubin: Rick Rubin: Fang of Def

Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 8 July 1989

Five years ago RICK RUBIN was the 21-year-old student behind Def Jam — the label that brought you the twin rock-rap assault of Licensed To Ill and ...