“Rapture” is often considered one of the earliest rap songs to hit the mainstream. During a 2012 interview with Westchester Magazine, Harry said the song was an example of hip-hop rather than rap. “At ...

The post The Story Behind Blondie’s Iconic “Rapture” appeared first on Consequence. Which brings us to one of Blondie’s signature songs, the cleverly titled “Rapture.” In 1981, the Autoamerican single ...

The post Fever 333 Conjure Up Blondie’s “Rapture” for New Song “Supremacy”: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Fever 333 have released a brand new song called “Supremacy” that features ...

These days, few songs get to #1 unless they're at least rap-adjacent. But for nearly its first decade of existence, rap music came nowhere near the pop charts. For a long time, it never even came ...

A year after the Sugarhill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979, Blondie recorded “Rapture,” the first major hip-hop hit to use original music rather than sampling other artists’ beats. Released ...

Playing this new music live, and introducing trends to the masses, as Blondie did with its 1980 song “Rapture,” which name checked hip-hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash and was the ...

We figured it out, this whole rapture thing is just a publicity stunt by Debbie Harry! Blondie has been Tweeting away with links to her own End of Days-esque videos; on the 19th she twote: "#zombie ...

Forty years in and still glamorously grinding, Blondie – with the creative core of Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and Clem Burke intact – are on tour behind their 11th studio album, Pollinator. The band ...

In the end, the weekend’s solar storm didn’t end up shorting out this year’s Cruel World festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday (May 11). Instead, bands including Duran Duran, ...

Blondie and Garbage already have at least one thing in common: legendary frontwomen, in the form of Debbie Harry and Shirley Manson, who've shown each other plenty of mutual love over the years. And ...