In the late 1980s, Living Colour broke down the color barrier in rock radio with their hit album Vivid. The all-African-American band’s style of razory metal with tinges of funk and the an avant-garde proved that pigmentation didn’t matter when it came to power chords and thunder beats.
Living Colour broke up circa 91, then reunited in 2000. They have a new studio album, The Chair in the Doorway, set for release on Megaforce Recordson Sept. 15. For those of you who lived through the days when hair metal ruled the rock airwaves, it wasn’t only Nirvana et al that brought down that wretched reign. Living Colour and other band played a part as well. Here’s the full text of a press release sent out about the new record:
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2009.
