Picture this: It's December. You turn on your car radio. The first few synth-pop notes of "Last Christmas" by Wham! start playing. What do you do? Why, you turn the volume up and you sing every single ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

When MTV debuted in 1981, it ushered in a golden era of music videos. The network’s launch was groundbreaking for artists everywhere. Suddenly, music was no longer a purely audible medium. Visuals ...

Some artists thrived in the '80s — Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, etc. Others, arguably, did not. Even the most devoted of Bob Dylan fans don't typically point to the '80s as his best decade of ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

Me listening to the Paradise soundtrack while writing this. Photo: Brian Roedel/Disney Using these covers is both a misguided choice and one of the things I appreciate most about Paradise. A drama ...

It’s undeniable that the ’80s produced some of the most emotionally charged songs in pop and rock history. Dance music and post-disco were taking the stage, but sadder songs made appearances in the ...

To some, the ’80s were the best of times, to others, maybe the worst of times. But to all, they were some of the cringiest and corniest times. Between the hair, the legwarmers, the eccentric clothes, ...

Genesis began the ’80s in transition and ended the decade on top of the pop world. Whether that was a good or bad thing might ...

Did you know that Huey Lewis almost turned down the job of writing the theme song to Back To The Future? It turns out that Huey didn’t want to get hemmed into writing a song called “Back To The Future ...