Jupe Jupe’s sound is thoroughly modern, providing the perfect soundtrack for anyone living a John Hughes movie life in 2020.
Music
Hotspot is a solid album that, maddeningly, feels like a slight disappointment only because of how impossibly high the Pet Shop Boys have set the bar.
Because calling it ‘Everything Is Broken’ seemed a bit too on the nose.
Kim Wilde, Wendy James, Neneh Cherry and Republica’s Saffron — at first, they came to break your heart, kick your ass, and penetrate your earholes; now they’re back to finish the job with a deluxe stack of premium reissues…
Me: I hadn’t heard this song before. My kids: We know this song (*sing every word*). Me: It begins.
Angela Perley’s dreamy mix of Americana, Country and Rock and Roll is the perfect soundtrack for long nighttime journeys between imagined gigs at the Grand Ole Opry and the Roadhouse bar in Twin Peaks.
With no offense to all those year-end lists filled with artists you’ve never heard of, this list should include lots of familiar names for listeners of a certain age…
Where I put on bold display how completely out of step I am with everything around me, Part 1 (of 3)
I love the smell of twentysomething drama in the morning.
The video for “Another One Down” finds Marx doing what Cher wished she could have done for ages, turn back time.
Basically, I made my own episode of the ’90s Time Machine.
For the record no, it is not lost on me that my show about UK music opens with artists from Ireland and Germany.
In which I play a bunch of Brit Pop, and then alienate nearly every fan of Brit Pop.
If the names don’t immediately ring bells, their contributions to decades of American music most certainly do.
It’s possible that he likes the System more than we do, which is saying something.
In which we say farewell to summer – and title-themed shows, for now – with a title-themed show about summer.
New World Man takes his New Girl Now, dolled up in a New Dress, for a ride in a Brand New Cadillac.
Basically, it’s First Wave, Lithium, and Alt Nation in a blender, at a ratio of about 4:2:1.
In a wide-ranging new interview, The Ocean Blue’s David Schelzel discusses the band’s new album, what’s hiding in the archives, his supergroup with Butch Vig, and how bands can thrive in the streaming era.