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Weeknight ’80s Dance Party: 4/20/11

Kelly Stitzel April 20, 2011 7

Put on your dancing shoes and strap on your guitar. It's time to rock a little and dance a little at the Weeknight '80s Dance Party

The Weekly Mixtape: 1/14/11

Dw. Dunphy January 14, 2011 2

Mixtape madness, honest voices, strangeness ensues!

El Ten Eleven – Hotcakes from Every Direction Is North (2007) Ben Folds Five – She Don’t Use Jelly from Lounge-A-Palooza (1997) Rosemary Clooney – Black Coffee from Music from the Television Series Crossing

Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 82

Dave Steed December 16, 2009 32

Whew. Friday morning was a big ol’ sigh of relief for me. My wife and I moved last Wednesday (hence my late-Thursday responses to part 81), and of course that means moving my entire

Lost in the ’80s: Les Rita Mitsouko

John C. Hughes March 24, 2009 8

French duo Fred Chichin and Catherine Ringer met at a theater production in the late ’70s and an instant musical bond was formed, one that took them from rock to synthpop and back again.

Lost in the ’70s: The Quick

John C. Hughes February 26, 2009 5

Unknown to nearly everyone save the most devoted power-pop and glam aficionados, the Quick were managed by legendary Los Angeles scenester and Runaways cofounder Kim Fowley. Fowley also coproduced the Quick’s one and only

Lost in the ’80s: “Revenge of the Nerds”

John C. Hughes October 7, 2008 10

It may be the height of over-sharing to admit this, but Revenge of the Nerds was a movie that really spoke to me in high school.Â As a computer-loving, comic book-collecting, Dungeons & Dragons-playing

Phagz on 45: Episode Five

John C. Hughes June 16, 2008 8

You know the deal: John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer), knock back some booze and review some singles, homo style. This