I may be a cruddy swimmer, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to be invited to the pool party. There will be booze, after all, and cleavage, and if the water […]
Deep Cuts: Swimming Songs
Deep Cuts: Commercial Songs
Pop songs are all about selling products, though usually the product is the song itself.
From the Stacks: R.E.M. – ‘Live and Alive’ Vol.1 & 2
R.E.M. has been on my turntable a lot this week, courtesy of a couple of anniversary pieces for Diffuser.
On Diffuser: 30 Years Ago – The Jesus and Mary Chain Dish Out ‘Psychocandy’
Here’s one of the great post-punk albums of the mid-80s.
209. Lessons Learned From an Oscar Winner
I need to backpedal a little bit, back to a year earlier when I was still wearing the black vest and name tag of Music Plus. The “Plus” was video: In the […]
Deep Cuts: The Best of Not Prince
One can sum up ’80s pop music with four artists: Bruce, Madonna, Michael, and Prince. In a way they were the last of the real superstars. The ’90s belonged to the anti-stars […]
188. Heads I Win Tails You Lose (Lord It’s Such A Crime)
The Sunset Strip was the business long before the eighties. Name a classic rock band and they probably played the Whisky—Van Halen, The Doors, The Kinks, on and on. The Strip was […]
142. If There is Music We Can Use It
Some of us in the MTV generation had to settle for ABC’s Friday Night Videos. Well into college I could still be found in front of the television most Friday nights, watching […]
From the Stacks: Madhouse – 16
I’m pretty sure Prince didn’t sleep between 1978 and 1990. I’m not even sure that he sleeps now. Eighties radio was dominated by the unholy alliance of Michael, Bruce, Madonna, and the […]
139. Thirty Square Feet
Mark Flowers was SCAD’s star professor in the mid-eighties. His style both as an artist and teacher was big and playful. Mark’s oversized canvases dominated the school’s gallery, and no professor’s style […]
Why It Matters 