March 13, 2013 “The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time” by Rolling Stone • rollingstone.com
Grammy Award winning rock band Living Colour’s 1988 hit “Cult of Personality” ranks #12 on Rolling Stone’s “The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time”. Read full article here →
Feb 26, 2021 “Music at Home: 15 Great Punk Songs by Black Artists” by Kory Grow • Rolling Stone
Living Colour’s ‘Ausländer’, from the bands 1993 album ‘Stain’, makes the cut on Rolling Stone’s selections. Read article here →
Jan 21, 2021 “Drummer Simon Phillips on His Years With the Who, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, and Toto” by Andy Greene • Rolling Stone
Drummer Simon Phillips, in an in-depth Rolling Stone feature, recalls how Mick’s 1988 solo tour came together, mentioning bassist Doug Wimbish as part of Mick Jagger’s 1988 solo tour band. Read article here →
Sep 8, 2017 “Living Colour Talk Reconnecting with the Blues on First Album in Eight Years” by Bill Murphy • Rolling Stone
A look into Living Colour’s latest album ‘Shade’, inspired by the bands performance of Robert Johnson’s ‘Preachin’ Blues at the NYC’s Apollo Theater in 2012. Read article here →
May 24, 2017 “The Sequence: The Funked-Up Legacy of Hip-Hop’s First Ladies” by Christopher R. Weingarten • Rolling Stone
Doug Wimbish describes how he created the iconic bass line to The Sequence’s ‘Funk You Up’ on the spot. Summoned by Sugar Hill Record’s Sylvia Robinson while on a Sugar Hill Gang tour stop at Township Auditorium in South Carolina, Doug listened to the trio and wrote the bass line in “about five seconds”. Read article here →
Dec 5, 2012 “The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time” by Rolling Stone • Rolling Stone
Doug Wimbish’s bass playing as the Sugar Hill Records house band bassist is heard on three of Rolling Stone’s top 50 greatest hip hop songs of all times: #1 ‘The Message’ - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five #47 ‘That’s the Joint’ - Funky 4 + 1 #49 ‘Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel’ - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. Read article here →