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A Punk Rock Valentine

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 1 Comment 2020, All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir, Beauty and The Beat, Kathy Valentine, Memoir, The Go-Gos

The legendary Go-Go’s bassist lays it all on the line in her stirring memoir

Dance Dub/Reggae New Wave

Five Lessons from Bass Culture and Warm Leatherette

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments 1980, Bass Culture, Chris Blackwell, Chrissie Hynde, Grace Jones, Island Records, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Smokey Robinson, The Pretenders, Warm Leatherette

As these two Island Records essentials turn 40, let us remind you why they both remain career pinnacles for Linton Kwesi Johnson and Grace Jones

New Wave Pop Reggae Video

MTV Killed the VIDEOSTAR

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Carey Budnick 2 Comments 999, AC/DC, Bad Manners, Barbara Jones, Body Talk, Buggles, Can’t Get Enough Of You, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Donna Summer, Duran Duran, Eddy Grant, Elvis Costello, Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime, Feels Like I’m In Love, Genesis, Hanging Around, Hazel O’Connor, Human League, Imagination, In And Out Of Love, In The Air Tonight, Intuition, Japan, Johnny And Mary, Just Can’t Get Enough, Just When I Need You Most, Kelly Marie, Kiki Dee, Kim Wilde, Korgis, Leo Sayer, Linx, My Simple Heart, No Reply At All, Obsessed, Olivia Newton-John, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Queen, Quiet Life, Robert Palmer, Sky, Star, Stevie Nicks, The Three Degrees, Thunder In My Heart, Tina Turner, Toccata, Tunnel Of Love, Video Killed The Radio Star, VIDEOSTARS, Walking In The Sunshine, Whitney Houston

An inside look at the world’s very first music compilation for video cassette

New Wave

Oh, No! It’s Devo’s 40th anniversary of Freedom of Choice

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Kelley Simms 0 Comments 1980, Alan Myers, Bob Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Devo, Gerard Casale, Girl U Want, Kent State, Mark Mothersbaugh, Ohio, Whip It

Ohio art-rockers’ 1980 record opened the floodgates for the new wave genre in America

New Wave Progressive Rock Rock

Geopolitical Jams and No Cymbals: Peter Gabriel (3) at 40

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980, Biko, Games Without Frontiers, Genesis, Melt, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Public Image Ltd., Robert Fripp

How Peter Gabriel’s melting face set the pace for the ’80s

Beatle Experimental New Wave Pop Rock

Like A Flower: McCartney II at 40

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1980, Coming Up, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney and Wings, Ron Mael, Sparks, The Beatles

If McCartney was Paul McCartney’s declaration of independence from the Beatles, Part II signaled a new kind of freedom

New Wave Pop Progressive Rock

ALBUMS: Notes On Notes On A Conditional Form

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 2020, Dirty Hit, Foster The People, Interscope, Matty Healy, Music For Cars, Notes On A Conditional Form, The 1975, Walk The Moon

Looking at The 1975’s remarkable and confusing new classic

Glam New Wave Pop Rock

Sparks and the Steady Drip, Drip, Drip of Success Pt. II

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2020, A Steady Drip Drip Drip, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Indiscreet, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Sparks, Tony Visconti

The second half of our exclusive chat with Ron Mael

New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance Rock

One Will Burn: Closer by Joy Division Turns 40

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 1980, Bernard Sumner, Closer, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, New Order, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris

On the 40th anniversary of Ian Curtis’s sudden, self-inflicted departure, we look back at his band’s greatest album

Glam New Wave Rock

Tony Visconti Lets Sparks Fly

May 18, 2020May 19, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments A Steady Drip Drip Drip, David Bowie, George Martin, Indiscreet, Paul McCartney, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Sparks, Tony Visconti

Jim Sullivan talks exclusively with the legendary producer about his history with the Mael Brothers

New Wave

Remembering Moon Martin

May 15, 2020May 17, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 3 Comments Capitol Records, Eric Dalton, Fontaine Brown, Jim Pulte, Moon Martin, Oklahoma, RIP, Robert Palmer, The Disciples

The vastly unsung New Wave act and writer of “Bad Case of Loving You” dead at age 69

Glam New Wave Pop

Sparks and the Steady Drip, Drip, Drip of Success Pt. I

May 14, 2020May 22, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2020, A Steady Drip Drip Drip, BMG, Franz Ferdinand, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Sparks, The Cramps

As they release their 24th LP, Ron Mael speaks exclusively with the Rock & Roll Globe about how he and brother Russell are keeping from going COVID crazy

Dance Electronic Experimental Hip Hop Industrial New Wave Pop Psychedelics Remembrance

Florian Schneider April 7, 1947 – April 30, 2020: Year Zero Not Only Can Be Beautiful, It Must Be Beautiful

May 8, 2020May 10, 2020 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Florian Schneider, Jimmy Fallon, Klaus Dinger, Kraftwerk, Michael Rother, Ralf Hütter, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Sun Ra, Sunn O))), Terry Riley, The Eagles, The Rascals, The Strokes, Tom Hanks

Tim Sommer bids Auf Wiedersehen to Herr Schneider, a man responsible for a half-century of innovation in pop musik

Country and/or Western New Wave Remembrance Soul

Rest In Peace, Sweet Pea Atkinson

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Ron Hart 1 Comment Andrew Gold, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Brick By Brick, Circus Money, Countryman, David Was, Don Was, Dot Com Blues, Elvis Costello, George Jones, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, I'm Alive, Iggy Pop, Ivan Neville, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Smith, Michael McDonald, Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers, Paula Abdul, Phantom Blues, Richie Sambora, RIP, Sir Harry Bownes, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Taj Mahal, The Hard Stuff, Under The Red Sky, Walter Becker, Was (Not Was), Wayne Kramer, Willie Nelson

Reflecting on the Detroit soul singer’s career beyond Was (Not Was)

New Wave Punk Remembrance

LISTEN: Rest In Peace, Dave Greenfield

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Baz Warne, Dave Greenfield, Hugh Cornwell, Jet Black, Members: Jean-Jacques Burnel, Paul Roberts, pub rock, RIP, The Stranglers

The legendary keyboardist for The Stranglers died on May 3 from COVID-19

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