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 ...

Recently, we detailed the amazing history of house and acid house music here, and it's quite a story. Just a few producers and DJs in Chicago started experimenting with old Roland gear back in the ...

Brian Rudquist loves the '80s. The Rochester rocker doesn't just play the music of Gen X grew up with, he has named his band after an iconic '80s video game — one of the "OG" video game systems — as a ...

I’ll admit that I wasn’t alive for the 1980s, but some music can make you feel nostalgic for things you’ve never experienced. So it was with the Psychedelic Furs at Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland on ...

MTV has announced a return to its original music video format, first debuted in 1981, ahead of the 2025 VMAs. For one week, the network will play exclusively music videos, but there's a catch. Here ...

The 1980s were packed with iconic films, and many of them feature songs that defined the decade. Some were previously released records that played during a particular point in the film and created an ...

Thanks to Gen Xers reliving their youth and millennials who’ve “discovered” the New Wave era of big hair, Spandex and synth-driven pop and deemed it retro and cool, ’80s music is, like, totally back.

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 ...