In the early ‘80s, the British pop scene was undergoing a major transformation. Punk was giving way to a new wave of music ...

But rather than try to shoehorn music into a pre-existing narrative, “Mystic Pizza” uses music to embrace and celebrate the ...

The ‘80s were a wild ride—big hair, neon everything, and music that still hits different. While everyone’s got Livin’ on a ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Tom Ley Israel ...

Pink Floyd's “Comfortably Numb” is a top 40 hit in the United Kingdom again this week, more than 40 years after it was first ...

A John Hiatt tribute put on as a MusiCares benefit featured Los Lobos, Lyle Lovett, Tom Morello, Brandy Clark, Joe Bonamassa ...

Now, a report by music licensing company Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) has found that the 1980 track “Could You Be ...

She was a music phenom, a performer who added hit after hit to the soundtrack of the ‘80s.