‘Vivid’ at 30: Living Colour Reflects on the Rough Road to Their Game-Changing Classic Debut "When I first heard Living Colour, I was like, 'Wow, these guys are literally the new Led Zeppelin!'" ...

New 'Shade' of Colour: When Living Colour kicks off its Synesthesia 2014 tour Thursday night in Toronto (the first U.S. date is Friday in Ferndale, Mich.), the group will have 30 years of material ...

As it celebrates the 30th anniversary of its ground-breaking debut album, ‘Vivid,’ Living Colour is ‘still alive and kicking,’ says bassist Doug Wimbish, 57 – and as busy as it’s ever ...

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid paints “Vivid” life with legends ...

Three decades after its release, it's still difficult to categorize Living Colour, and their debut album, Vivid.But in the pre-streaming, pre-downloading, pre-internet era of fairly strict radio ...

Living Colour’s multiplatinum debut Vivid cut through in the epochal year of 1988. As the Reagan years gave way to George H.W. Bush’s administration, hard rock was at it’s slickest and most ...

Living Colour's genre-breaking debut album Vivid, which spawned hits "Cult of Personality" and "Glamour Boys," is 25 years old this year and the band will be playing the album in full on tour this ...

Living Colour arrived on the hard rock scene in 1988, effectively knocking down the color barrier in the process. The band's hard-hitting debut 'Vivid' featured the African-American rockers ...

Founded by guitarist Vernon Reid, a member of New York’s groundbreaking Black Rock Coalition, Living Colour were one of the most revolutionary rock bands of the late 80s. They notched up hit ...

Living Colour’s Vivid. Let’s just put this here for you to watch while you get all the “black metal special issue” jokes out of your thought balloon. First off, that lead riff. Goddamn, right? Your ...

Back in the 1980s, with hip-hop burgeoning and funk getting a shot of revival from Prince, it was unusual for a group of black musicians to be playing hard rock, especially on MTV. Living Colour ...

As it celebrates its 30th anniversary as a band, Living Colour is “still alive and kicking,” says bassist Doug Wimbish, 57 – and as busy as it’s ever been. The Grammy Award-… ...