Jun 17, 2019 “The 33 Best Industrial Albums of All Time” #22 ‘Tackhead Tape Time’ by Sasha Geffen • Pitchfork
Connecting hip hop and industrial genres, Tackhead’s 1987 debut studio album, ‘Tackhead Tape Time’, brought a new blend which remains vital today. Read article here →
Oct 3, 2004 “Behind the Beat” by Dan Leroy • The New York Times
Tackhead’s rhythm section - Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald & Keith LeBlanc, collectively having played on albums & tours heard by millions across the world - a look into ‘behind the beat’. Read article here →
Feb 24, 1988 “Tackhead at The Ritz” by Peter Watrous • The New York Times
Review of Tackhead at The Ritz - the first three songs emphasizing “its status as one of the finest rhythm sections of the 1980's” - Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald, Keith LeBlanc together with Adrian Sherwood. Read review here →
Aug 30, 1987 “Pop View; Rock for the Record: Unsung Studio Bands” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
“One of today’s most extraordinary rhythm sections” that records as Fats Comet, consisting of the former Sugar Hill Records Rhythm Section members Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald & Keith LeBlanc together with British recording engineer Adrian Sherwood. Read article here →
Jun 7, 1987 “Fats Comet in a Night of Rap” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
Review of Fats Comet, consisting of former Sugar Hill Records Rhythm Section members Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald & Keith LeBlanc, together with On-U Sound’s Adrian Sherwood, at NYC’s Cat Club. Read article here →
Jun 3, 1987 “The Pop Life • Out of the Studios and Into The Cat Club” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
Mark Stewart & Gary Clail - fronting the former Sugar Hill Rhythm Section consisting of Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald & Keith LeBlanc - as Mark Stewart & The Maffia and Gary Clail & Tackhead, along with On-U Sound’s Adrian Sherwood, to make a rare live appearance at the Cat Club. Read article here →
Sep 22, 1985 “George Clinton: Pop Music’s Precious Natural Resource” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
George Clinton’s album “Some Of My Best Jokes Are Friends” includes “contemporary rap and hip hop’s definitive rhythm section” Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald & Dennis Chambers. Read article here →
Jul 4, 1984 “The Pop Life • Funk Band Members Off in New Directions” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
Duke Bootee (The Message), describes the night he met Wood, Brass & Steel’s Doug Wimbish & Skip McDonald, to a few years later at Joe & Sylvia Robinson’s Sugar Hill Studios in Englewood, NJ with he, Doug, Skip, Jiggs Chase, Keith LeBlanc, Chops Horns and others . Read article here →.
Dec 30, 1982 “Urban Anthems of Rap Music” by Geoffrey Himes • The Washington Post
The Sugar Hill Records funk rhythm section of Doug Wimbish, Keith LeBlanc & Skip McDonald is the band behind the groundbreaking rap song ‘The Message’, the title track of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s first album. Read article here →
Nov 21, 1982 “Funk Takes a Provocative Turn” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald & Keith LeBlanc, as New Jersey’s Sugar Hill Record Label house band, may well be described as the “modern funk rhythm section”. Read article here →.