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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

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

Pop

Take Me Back: Elton John’s 21 at 33 is 40

May 29, 2020May 30, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 3 Comments 1980, 21 At 33, Alvin Taylor, Beach Boys, Bill Champlin, Bruce Johnston, Byron Berline. Curt Boetcher, Don Henley, Elton John, Glenn Frey, Herman’s Hermits, James Newton-Howard, Jim Horn, Peter Noone, Reggie McBride, Steve Lukather, The Eagles, Timothy B. Schmitt

Looking back at the Rocketman’s first middle age offering that ushered in his 1980s

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 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

New Wave Rock

A Little Is Enough: Pete Townshend’s Empty Glass Turns 40

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1980, Atco, Empty Glass, Face Dances, Let My Love Open The Door, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, The Sex Pistols, The Who

In 1980, the Who guitarist’s cup overflowed as the finest solo outing of his career

New Wave Pop

Argybargy at 40: When Squeeze’s Geeky Gambit Went Global

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Jim Allen 1 Comment 1980, Argybargy, Chris Difford, England, Glen Tilbrook, New Wave, Pulling Mussels From A Shell, Squeeze

Four decades ago Difford and Tilbrook made the New Wave safe for nerds

New Wave Pop Power Pop

Say Hello, (New) Wave Goodbye: Mad Love at 40

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 Thomas Inskeep 1 Comment 1980, Asylum Records, Billy Steinberg, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Linda Ronstadt, Mad Love, Mark Goldenberg, Peter Asher

Linda Ronstadt started the 1980s trying to figure out new wave. Kinda.

Experimental Pop Post-Punk

Credit In The Straight World: Colossal Youth at 40

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments 1980, Allison Statton, Colossal Youth, Courtney Love, Credit In The Straght World, Hole, Philip Moxham, Rough Trade, Stuart Moxham, Young Marble Giants

In 1980, Young Marble Giants stripped post-punk down to its minimalist core

New Wave

Get Happy!! Turns 40

February 25, 2020March 3, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980, Armed Forces, Bruce Thomas, CBS Records, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Get Happy!!, My Aim Is True, Pete Thomas, Steve Nieve, This Year's Model, Trust

How Elvis Costello’s soul searching about face expanded the New Wave lexicon in 1980

New Wave

Plastic Passions: The Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry at 40

February 15, 2020May 16, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 1980, Boys Don't Cry, Lol Tolhurst, Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup, The Cure

Looking back at the Goth giants’ first odds ‘n’ sods collection

New Wave Progressive Rock

We Can’t Rewind, We’ve Gone Too Far: The Buggles’ The Age of Plastic at 40

January 17, 2020January 18, 2020 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1980, Geoff Downes, Island Records, MTV, The Age of Plastic, The Buggles, Trevor Horn, Video Killed The Radio Star

The album that featured the song that launched MTV as we once knew it was actually prog in disguise

New Wave Progressive Rock

The Ripples of Rush’s Permanent Waves Still Being Felt

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 Jedd Beaudoin 0 Comments 12/10/76, 1980, 40th Anniversary, Alex Lifeson, Freewill, Geddy Lee, Modern Drummer magazine, Neil Peart, Permanent Waves, Rush, Rush Capitol Theatre, The Spirit of Radio

40 years on and in the wake of Neil Peart’s unexpected passing, we look back on the Canadian power trio’s first foray into New Wave

Remembrance

Where Were You the Night John Lennon…

December 8, 2019March 24, 2020 Sam Felder 0 Comments 1980, John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, Norwegian Wood, The Beatles, Yoko Ono

A former on-call intern recounts the assassination that shook the NYC medical community to its core