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a blog for those who never gave up their turntables or records

80s Rock & Beyond

 

’80s ROCK & BEYOND in­cludes ar­ti­cles about the new music that people have been lis­tening to for the past four decades. I am not one of those people, so there won’t be much here …

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the bangs and the bangles’ versions of “getting out of hand”

January 17, 2021
Bangles posed 1500 crop

WAY BACK IN 1984, way back when people ac­tu­ally be­lieved in “trickle-down eco­nomics,” I was living in Scotts­dale, Ari­zona, but I wasn’t get­ting out much. I had suc­cumbed to the ubiq­ui­tous peer pres­sure ques­tion of “Why do you live in the past when it comes to music?” [Continue reading]

Categories 80s Rock & Beyond Tags Psychedelic Furs

is camila cabello really more popular than the pope?

March 16, 2020September 25, 2018
CamilaCabello bw 1500 crop

WHO LIKES THIS SINGER? was the ques­tion on Quora that someone re­quested I an­swer. When I opened the page, there was no other in­for­ma­tion, but there was a link to an­other page some­where on the In­ternet. So I clicked it and ended up on YouTube, where I watched the linked video and a few others. [Continue reading]

Categories 80s Rock & Beyond Tags Quora

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