On Nov. 1, 1982, Duran Duran released "Rio" as a single in the U.K. The title track of the band's 1982 LP quickly became one of the Birmingham band's signature songs, a confident mission statement ...

View of Rio de Janeiro. Photo by sandeepachetan.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) via Flickr With the summer Olympics in full swing, I wanted to highlight two great songs about the country as well as the carioca ...

Brazilian pop star Anitta has released a new song, “Girl From Rio,” along with an accompanying music video. The track finds Anitta putting her own spin on the Brazilian bossa nova classic, “The Girl ...

In the spring of 1982, the British rock group Duran Duran were working on their second album at AIR Studios in London. At the time, the five-member band of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy ...

The post The Hard Quartet Announce Self-Titled Debut Album, Reveal “Rio’s Song”: Stream appeared first on Consequence. A nostalgic rock tune, “Rio’s Song” pays tribute to the late actor Rio Hackford ...