Remember when we all heard that Rob Zombie, the director of Night of 1,000 Corpses, and the Halloween remake was doing a Munsters reboot for the big screen? We were expecting something a lot grittier. […]
Photo Credit: Pete Brown / CC by 2.0 Dave Smith, a groundbreaking synthesizer innovator whose work shaped electronic music, dies at 72. His passing comes as the result of complications following a heart attack, says […]
Dave Smith, center, photographed attending the 2015 North American Music Merchants convention in Anaheim, Calif. Pete Brown/Wikimedia Commons The sound of pop music in the ’80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the […]
Stephen Colbert has allegedly never seen The Goonies. Now, sure, the late night talk show host wasn’t an adolescent or teen in 1985. But the treasure-hunting, coming-of-age tale seems so up his alley. Josh Brolin, […]
The summer of 1982 was legendary for cinema. Films across all genres made a splash, with several now considered classics. They live on through the films and shows they’ve influenced since—including the more recent overt […]
For over 30 years, whenever anyone talked about a “Mad Max aesthetic,” what they really meant was “make it like The Road Warrior (a.k.a. Mad Max 2).” The 1982 movie really only has a tangential […]
Angel Olsen has never repeated herself. Her debut Half Way Home introduced Olsen as a psych-folk songwriter with a powerhouse voice, before the lo-fi indie of Burn Your Fire For No Witness reframed her within […]
It starts with The Visitors, an icy, electronic track in which authoritarian agents hammer on the door of a fearful dissident – not the Abba you expected to come calling in this trailblazing, retro-futurist extravaganza […]
Eddie Munson, the breakout character on the new fourth season of Stranger Things, keeps getting more metal by the day. Now, it turns out that the Dio back patch on his denim jacket was actually […]
Horsegirl: Versions of Modern Performance album cover. Horsegirl are three Chicago teens – Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein and Gigi Reece – here to prove that being born in the 21st-century is no barrier to indulging […]
The Summer of 1982 is a pivotal time in pop culture history. Films like Poltergeist, E.T., Mad Max 2, Blade Runner, and TRON all hit theaters, capturing the hearts of audiences and leaving an indelible […]
In 2016, the Queen was canvassed for her favourite music to mark her 90th birthday, and her selections felt like those of a regular British nonagenarian: show tunes from Oklahoma!, Fred Astaire’s Cheek to Cheek, […]
Michael Sweet has admitted that he and his STRYPER bandmates no longer attempt to perform the group’s songs in the original key. In a social media post earlier today (Thursday, June 2),the 58-year-old guitarist/vocalist revealed […]
While the most iconic vehicles in sci-fi history are things like spaceships and light cycles, one of the most beloved is just a car. Well, not just any car. One that also happens to be […]
Strangers Things 4 might bring Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (Make a Deal with God)” to a new career high on the Billboard charts thanks to its repeated use in the Netflix show’s latest […]
Stranger Things revels in the nostalgia and the aesthetic of the 1980s — but that nostalgia is presented in a very limited scope. Throughout its four seasons, the Netflix show celebrates what little boys who […]
Buh Records curates Síntomas de techno (Symptoms of techno): Underground electronic waves from Peru (1985-1991), an ode to the originators of Peruvian electronic music Síntomas de techno cover image via Rogelio Martel Reviewed: June 1, […]
As rock superstars DEF LEPPARD return with a brand-new album, “Diamond Star Halos”, vocalist Joe Elliott insists that the album format is still important — at least for DEF LEPPARD. “When we got together in […]
She didn’t stick with the franchise long enough to get to time travel, but fans of the first Back to the Future movie will certainly remember Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker. Wells appeared in the […]
Those of us who’ve watched all or some of the recently premiered Volume 1 of Stranger Things Season 4 have been captivated by the new character Eddie Munson, an ’80s metalhead who is also a […]