Leading Whitesnake’s career-saving/bolstering 1987 album on the European version is the indomitable “Still of the Night.” At ...

Tulsa is NOT a small town in Oklahoma. And you'd be right. But you know what Tulsa does have that gives it the mark of a ...

Music in the 1980s wasn't just about synth-pop hits and arena rock anthems. Beneath the glittery surface of mainstream ...

Grab your Walkman headphones and steer that Delorean straight for the golden age of hip-hop, metal, and indie rock.

According to Rolling Stone, 1984 was the best year of pop music the world has ever seen. And there’s no doubt that it was legendary. We were blessed with the releases of Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” ...

Lisa Lisa, seen here in 2018, releases her first music video in 30 years. “Their machine just blew. It just shut down,” she recalls of their performance on the 1989 Club MTV Tour, referring to the ...

It’s been a few years since Weird Nightmare last released his eponymous debut on Sub Pop. Now, Alex Edkins is sharing “Forever Elsewhere,” his first new music since his band METZ announced an ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

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Recently, some colleagues and I got into a discussion about the theme song to “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the 1985 movie starring Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, and the rest of the Brat Pack. My boss hated John Parr’s ...

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