Like, Omigod! Digging Through the ’80s Pop Culture Box, Part 13
Here's where we start digging into Disc 4 of the seven-disc box set Like, Omigod!
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Here's where we start digging into Disc 4 of the seven-disc box set Like, Omigod!
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I mean don't think about the cyclops astronaut artwork…lol.
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The early 80s was a great time to be a follower of new music in the north-east of England.
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The Post War Orchestra has launched a fundraising campaign to convert more weapons into instruments.
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I'm a pop song junkie, and I owe it all to 1983 -- the year I started buying music.
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On his last EP, Equatorial Ultravox , British musician Hugo Manuel (also known by his stage name Chad Valley ) proved that tropical tunes need not hail from a warm climate.
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Taking place each year in the heart of Asheville, North Carolina, Moogfest has positioned itself as a unique destination festival.
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In the six-year time span between their debut single (1981's 'Dreaming Of Me') and the release of a mighty sixth album, Music For The Masses , Depeche Mode went through a major artistic metamorphosis.
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Thomas Dolby has decided to call it quits from his position of music director of TED (Technology, Entertainement and Design).
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If you believe the legends, mad scientists, aviators, steamship captains and brave warriors have been adventuring between the past, present and future for more than a century.
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Thomas Dolby 's tour bus is currently towing a " Time Capsule " across North America.
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The kind of rock, mostly the ostentatious stuff from the '70s and '80s, that celebrated the best of youthful vigor?
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Just in time for spring break, the TV is telling us to "spring forward" our clocks this weekend.
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Bat For Lashes, Simple Minds, Laura Marling, Buena Vista Social Club, Metronomy, SBTRKT, Janelle Monáe, Amadou & Mariam and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are also on the bill.
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Both Foreigner guitarist and Mick Jones and King's X drummer Jerry Gaskill are recovering from heart ailments.
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What does a group do when they've become one of the biggest-selling bands of the late '70′s, having moved 12 million records over the course of three years?
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"The Decemberists have announced the November 1 release of the b-sides EP Long Live The King , a companion piece to their #1 debuting breakout LP The King Is Dead. The 6-song EP features outtakes from The King Is Dead recording sessions at Pendarvis Farm including 'E. Watson' (with backing vocals from Laura Veirs and Annalisa Tornfelt), the horn-drenched 'Sonnet,' and a cover of The Grateful Dead's 'Row Jimmy,' as well as the home demo 'I 4 U & U 4 Me.' The CD and 10" vinyl versions of Long Live The King are available for pre-order now at The Decemberists' website and Amazon.com. The EP will also be released digitally through all digital retailers.
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The past turns into a succession of years.
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I like this idea: that on any given evening there's a decent chance that there's a man on the eastern coast of England, sitting in the wheelhouse of his refurbished 1930′s era lifeboat , creating works of art in the studio that he's had installed there.
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On this special edition of Something Else!
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Before founding a telephone answering system business, Wally Brill was a musician, producer and label executive during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Dandies, punks, teds and mods dusted down their finest threads for London's Vintage Festival, a celebration of British design history which hints at a change in direction for UK festivals.
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Following the album's tentative release, I was wondering if there was another tour planned.
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The glistening shimmer of Roxy Music's Avalon or the giddy richness of peak-period Prefab Sprout don't immediately spring to mind when you think of Destroyer.
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I was barely walking upright when Thomas Dolby arrived on the scene with a bang in 1982 with his debut album The Golden Age of Wireless.
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