April 10, 2009• Chart Attack!, Music
Hi, everybody! This week’s CHART ATTACK! takes us back a whopping 22 years, and wow, do I feel old, considering I remember hearing...
November 5, 2008• Future Retro, Music
A SIMPLE GIRL WITH A DREAM I have one thing to say – RuPaul Andre Charles was an unlikely success story to say the very least. As a...
October 1, 2008• Future Retro, Meta, Music
CALLING GLORIA Laura Branigan is a classic example of a great and underrated talent whose life and career were cut short far too soon....
September 3, 2008• Future Retro, Music
SHE’S A MODERN GIRL (na na na na na) Back in the neon-colored days of the ’80s, Sheena Easton ruled the Adult Contemporary...
August 12, 2008• Future Retro, Music
LOCATION: Anytown, USA TIME: The Early ’80’s A young, burgeoning music fan has got to start somewhere. This is the brief,...
August 3, 2008• Future Retro, Music
TWO TONS O’ TALENT San Francisco’s Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes first rose to fame in 1977 as Two Tons O’ Fun, background...
July 13, 2008• Future Retro, Music
WHAM! BAM! Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou seemed an unlikely choice to become a pop music superstar. However, after meeting schoolmate Andrew...
June 1, 2008• Future Retro, Music
A TENNESSEE GODDESS Dolly Rebecca Parton has had one of the most enduring and multi-faceted careers in music history. She is beloved for...
May 4, 2008• Future Retro, Music
“IS THAT GIRL SINGING AT THE MALL?” Yes, she was. In 1987, Tiffany Darwish unleashed her self-titled debut album upon a world...
April 6, 2008• Future Retro, Music
The early musical output of popular artists is the stuff of semi-legend and fan obsession — Aretha Franklin’s Columbia...
March 2, 2008• Future Retro, Music
I’m DJ D from Retro Remixes, and this is my shiny new column, fresh out of the bubble wrap. Pop! Pop! Pop! This feature, a spin-off...
