Boing-ga-boing-ga-boing-boing, snap! Now that is a hook, bitches. For a long time, the name Stephen Duffy was nothing more to me than the answer to a trivia question about who…
White Label Wednesday
Are you ready to rock?! Wait, no, thatÁ¢€™s not right, let me try that againÁ¢€¦are you ready for some melodic rock?! The whole reclassification of early Á¢€Ëœ80s arena rock as…
ScoutÁ¢€™s honor, I had no idea this mix even existed until a few months ago, when it popped up on an Á¢€Ëœ80s remix message board I frequent. Always a big…
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 will not pretend to know more about the Screaming Blue Messiahs than I actually do. All I know is that their singer was bald and the people who liked…
Get ur geek on, fuckers! (Use of Á¢€Ëœfuckers!Á¢€â„¢ at the end of brief opening sentence copyright of Jeff Giles Inc. All rights reserved.) First off, if youÁ¢€â„¢re a fan of…
The Eagles dogpiling continues. First off, if you havenÁ¢€™t had a chance, read Scott MalchusÁ¢€™ great review of Don FelderÁ¢€™s Á¢€Å“Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001).Á¢€ Good…
Meet the rarest of beasts: the heavy metal dance mix. After the Á¢€Å“disappointingÁ¢€ sales figures for Judas PriestÁ¢€™s 1984 album Defenders of the Faith (it merely went platinum), CBS Records…
For many rock acts that made their mark in the Á¢€Ëœ70s, 1985 was the year they faced off against what could be called the New Wave Borg. The rules were…
You donÁ¢€™t get much more Á¢€Ëœright place, right timeÁ¢€™ than Bryan Ferry and his sole Top 40 entry, Á¢€Å“Kiss and Tell.Á¢€ Despite his superstar status in his native England Á¢€”…
The music industry is quick to tell you how piracy is killing them, and it surely is. What they’re not as vocal about is their tendency to kill themselves. This…