Nov 29, 2018
The Album: J*DaVeY The Beauty in Distortion (2008)
Heat Rocks co-host Morgan Rhodes is a huge fan of J*Davey and a huge fan of Iman Omari. Naturally she was beyond thrilled when Iman accepted an invitation to come on Heat Rocks and chose J*Davey's 2008 brilliant debut album "The Beauty In Distortion"...
Nov 22, 2018
The Album: Drakeo the Ruler: Cold Devil (2017)
When we invited L.A. music writer Jeff Weiss to join us, he was adamant that there was only one release he wanted to talk about: Cold Devil, the full-length, acclaimed mixtape that the upstart Los Angeles rapper, Drakeo the Ruler, dropped nearly a year ago. Drakeo is part...
Nov 15, 2018
The Album: George Michael: Faith (1987)
In the fall of 1987, it wasn't a foregone conclusion that George Michael's solo debut, Faith, would be a hit. As successful as Michael had been as half of the Wham! duo, going solo was always going to be a risk but as it turns out, it was one worth taking. Faith turned out to be a...
Nov 8, 2018
The Album: Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer (2018)
To close out our Women Behaving Boldly mini-series, we brought things all the way up to the present by tackling a 2018 album. Our guest, music writer and journalism professor Evelyn McDonnell wanted to talk about Atlanta's Janelle Monae and her recent LP, Dirty...
Nov 1, 2018
The Album: Lauryn Hill: The
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
On August 25, 1998, Lauryn Hill, the breakout rapping/singing star
from The Fugees released her first (and only) solo
album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. On
August 25, 2018, exactly 20 years later, the Heat Rocks crew
invited author Joan Morgan to join...