The internet has many downsides, but if there was ever an example of its power being harnessed for good, it’s the recent unarchiving of “Dancing Is Dangerous” — a never-seen...
Read MoreIt’s official: 2024 is the Year of Redd Kross. And it’s a celebration that’s long-overdue. Forty-five years after forming one of the most important bands to ever hail from Los...
Read MoreHaircut 100 may have been early-MTV darlings in America — frontman Nick Heyward chucklingly brags that “quite a few guys” have even told him that his iconic loincloth scene in...
Read MoreThirty years ago this week, on June 30, 1994, Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament went to D.C. to testify before Congress as part of their ongoing, ultimately...
Read MoreI’m about to please please tell you now! Tonight on AXS TV’s The Top Ten Revealed, we’re counting down the biggest bands of the Second British Invasion. Gee, I wonder...
Read MoreThis interview took place in 2017. Today, I’m unarchiving it to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Purple Rain soundtrack, which was released on June 25, 1984. “It was very difficult...
Read MoreThompson Twins founder Tom Bailey is embarking on the all-star Totally Tubular Festival tour this week, and if there one’s song he’ll definitely be playing every night, it’s “If You...
Read MoreFormer Joy Division/New Order member Peter Hook is chatting me with from his home in England about his fall 2024 tour with Peter Hook and the Light, during which he’ll...
Read MoreIn 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, R&B superstars Brandy Norwood and Monica Arnold — aka Brandy & Monica, whose legendary duet “The Boy Is Mine” won the...
Read MoreMost casual music fans probably best recognize Marcella Detroit, aka Marcy Levy, as the operatic, glass-shattering voice of Shakespears Sister’s gospel-tinged space-ballad “Stay,” which topped the British singles chart for...
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