In the early ‘80s, the British pop scene was undergoing a major transformation. Punk was giving way to a new wave of music ...

But rather than try to shoehorn music into a pre-existing narrative, “Mystic Pizza” uses music to embrace and celebrate the ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Tom Ley Israel ...

Not anymore! We’re cranking up the time machine and bringing back those underrated 80s bangers you totally had on your ...

The year 1985 was a great period for music, but not every radio hit survived to live on everyone's modern day playlists or flashback radio specials. For every Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" and ...

She was a music phenom, a performer who added hit after hit to the soundtrack of the ‘80s.

His seven-times platinum international chart-topping triple album All Things Must Pass reeled off the No. 1 “My Sweet Lord” ...

Dirt for Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 I think when you wade through the ensuing songs, plus others that might pop up in your mind, ...

“Espresso” was written by Carpenter, Amy Allen, Steph Jones, and the track’s producer Julian Bunetta, best known for writing and producing a big swath of One Direction’s output. Jones and Bunetta seem ...

That was probably the first time we started to get calculating in that sense.” Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr is acknowledging a pivotal moment in Simple Minds’ career. Rock stars will cite all manner ...

The Masked Singer fans are all in agreement that an '80s pop icon is hiding behind the identity of Wolf as the final seven contestants remain. The ITV show is just over the halfway mark as masked ...

Mick Jagger and David Bowie became close friends during their time in New York in the 1980s, and it was this period that ...