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Pop Goes the World: “Ruby Trax,” Disc 2

David Medsker October 7, 2009 0

David Medsker has returned with the second disc of the NME's wonderfully strange covers compilation, featuring the biggest artists of the early '90s paying their respects to some of pop's greatest hits

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Lost in the ’80s: Soft Cell, “What!”

John C. Hughes November 4, 2008 8

It’s a shame that U.K. synthpop duo Soft Cell became the epitome of an ’80s one-hit wonder.  While they charted with several singles overseas, “Tainted Love” was their sole American hit, despite releasing several

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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 2

Dave Steed April 9, 2008 22

I thank my dad for my love of ’80s music. My parents divorced before I can even remember, and I used to see my dad on weekends. Every weekend for years, he’d give me

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