Ozzy Osbourne Was, Is and Ever Shall Be... Everywhere
Tuesday July 29, 2008
If you've been hoping for veteran rockers like Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons or Ted Nugent to go away quietly and retreat into an ordinary life out of the spotlight, then ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - Dreams So Real's "Bearing Witness"
Saturday July 26, 2008
Well, now, here's one that truly earns the above title I bestow upon it. This Athens, Ga. guitar rock band's first widely released album, 1988's solidly brilliant Rough Night in ... Read More
S.C. Couple Drives Fox Family Away by Blaring '80s Music - I'm Insulted
Wednesday July 23, 2008
I don't remember very many of these (although I really dug actress Christa Miller for a while), but I recall an episode of The Drew Carey Show in which Drew's ... Read More
Let Your Imagination Run Wild With These '80s Music Dates From Hell
Sunday July 20, 2008
You know that age-old, conceptual conservation piece when you're asked what three historical figures with whom you would most like to have dinner? I remember years ago when David Letterman, ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - Single Bullet Theory's "Keep It Tight"
Friday July 18, 2008
Following my discovery a couple years back of the wonderful Canadian new wave band the Kings, I've become exponentially convinced that all the greatest bands of the genre must have ... Read More
Psychedelic Furs Responsible for Much of the Style Found in Modern Rock
Sunday July 13, 2008
I've always been a little annoyed with the tiny shades of variation between related genres like alternative rock, modern rock, college rock and post-punk. After all, some of that fuss ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "Electricity"
Friday July 11, 2008
Early-'80s synth pop from Devo to Yaz maximized the herky jerky rhythms and pulses of electronic music, but England's Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark were probably more strongly tied to ... Read More
For Better & For Worse, '80s-Styled Hard Rock Will Never Truly Fade
Monday July 7, 2008
When a music genre gets the Time-Life treatment, it usually means one of two things: legitimacy or total cultural irrelevance. In the case of the company's brand new Hard & ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - Dave Alvin's "Every Night About This Time"
Thursday July 3, 2008
Roots rockers of the '80s did more than their part to confuse the hell out of record executives and radio programmers, as this fine track from Alvin's 1987 solo debut, ... Read More