Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about much of the British pop/rock that followed the massive rise of Duran Duran is that little of it combined guitar, keyboards and dance beats ... Read More

Granted, I've never actually seen such an advertisement online or in the paper. Even so, I did have the experience last week of an enthusiastic visitor to this site asking ... Read More

Pop music from Australia and New Zealand has always boasted a tendency to defy categorization and forge its own unique path regardless of era. That may explain why my familiarity ... Read More

As if we needed additional examples at this point, here's another piece of irrefutable proof that our years are advancing wildly and unstoppably: the slow but certain emergence of '80s ... Read More

Based on the long, often bland history of adult contemporary music on the pop charts, one wouldn't necessarily expect to be transported pleasantly and completely by a song from that ... Read More

This isn't exactly news in the connotatively fresh sense of the term, but it is worth noting that the often critically dismissed and eternally unhip duo Hall & Oates has ... Read More

The story of fIREHOSE would be a warm and fuzzy rock and roll tale if it weren't also so damn tragic. Following the death of lead singer and guitarist D. ... Read More

For some reason I feel a bit sheepish and reluctant to start the week in such a negative way, but I'm starting to get a little annoyed with the positive ... Read More