Brooklyn synth pop duo TalkFine revel in the comic absurdity of urban awkwardness on their new album, Lesser Known Hits.
Duran Duran
Welcome to our latest feature, in which we dissect the album that restored an artist’s chart prominence. First up: Duran Duran, and their improbable 1993 smash.
Kelly Stitzel helps you ring in 2012 with a special New Year’s Eve* edition of the Week(end) ’80s Dance Party.
*Garry Marshall was not involved in the making of this mix.
Join the Popdose Staff as they say “Thank You” to the people that introduced them to the music that shaped their lives.
Author Matthew Chojnacki has a tremendous new book devoted to the great cover art found on 7″ & 12″ vinyl singles in the ’80s. Here are his desert island picks.
If you’ve not been following every breath he takes, you’re missing a lot of great guest appearances by the man they call Sting.
We’re such geeks that we even think about albums with great second-to-last songs.
This week’s ’80s Dance Party is brought to you by heartbreak, passion, longing, lace and dark lipstick.
With a new Mark Ronson-produced album about to hit shelves, Popdose puts Duran Duran under the microscope to examine their strange, wonderful career.
Popdose.com’s Weekly Mixtape returns with Kelly Stitzel’s ode to the flip side.
So many videos, so little time. Popdose presents Friday Night Videos from the year 1993!
Even in a year where a lot of great new music was released, it’s still been a blast to revisit artists and albums of old through those wonderful reissues, box…
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s still a heart-rending story, about…
It’s the last week for the letter D, as we take a look at more tracks that hit the Rock charts but failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot…
Duran Duran’s “Liberty” turns 20 this year; David Medsker takes a look back at the group’s decline.
It’s White Label Friday, kids! When I say dance, you best dance, muthafucka! Note: It should be said up front that most of these MP3s were acquired during the Wild…
This week John C. Hughes has prepared a special edition of Lost in the ’80s for all you zombies. Are you ready for the top 15 new-wave songs … ever?!?
After a vacation summering in beautiful Silver Lake, California (aka, barhopping),Á‚ John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer),…
“But suddenly a mighty tumult arose, and there were cries of “The werewolf!” “The werewolf!” Terror seized upon all Á¢€” stout hearts were frozen with fear. Out from the further…
It’s week 27 of Bottom Feeders and you know what that means. What? You don’t know what that means? Actually, neither do I. But what I do know is that…
Yep, another Duran Duran post from Popdose’s resident DD fanboy (or Durannie, as we were once called). Between this, my White Label post on “Hold Back the Rain,” and John…
I can say without hesitation that today’s Hooks ‘N’ You was written more quickly and with less forethought in the history of the column, but whether that’s a good thing…
LetÁ¢€™s just ask the obvious question: how the hell did this song become a hit? This is not to say that the song is awful so much as itÁ¢€™s really,…
I know what you’re thinking … how can a Duran Duran song possibly be considered Lost in the ’80s? How about when the band itself basically dislikes the single so…
Duran Duran, The Comeback: Take One The late ’80s were strange and hostile times for the ‘and then there were three’ incarnation of Duran Duran. Yes, their 1986 album Notorious…
If you know me, then you know that I loves me some Duran Duran. Even when they make an album as unlistenable as Liberty, Pop Trash or Red Carpet Massacre…