With Record Store Day happening on April 12, 2025, it only seems fitting to talk about a new book coming out next month all based on the music of the 1980’s. Boy, that was a time, wasn’t it? Big hair, ...

When MTV debuted in 1981, it ushered in a golden era of music videos. The network’s launch was groundbreaking for artists everywhere. Suddenly, music was no longer a purely audible medium. Visuals ...

The former Foreigner frontman has had a successful five-decades-long career full of albums and tours, and now he's ready for ...

I love a lot of music and movies from the 1980s. I recently lionized Cyndi Lauper on this very website. And do movies get any better than those two 80s stand-outs, The Empire Strikes Back and Indiana ...

LONDON — Legendary British jazz singer and author George Melly died at home Thursday. He was 80. The flamboyant showman performed on stage for more than 30 years with John Chilton’s Feetwarmers, with ...

KCCK Jazz Radio 88.3 DJ Hollis Monroe introduces the next song during his show “Midday Jazz with Hollis Monroe” at the radio station’s studio at Kirkwood Community College in southwest Cedar Rapids, ...

Robert Plant said he’d spent a lot of time embarrassed by the solo music he released in the ‘80s as he worked to put the ‘70s behind him. But he reflected that his efforts – represented on his new ...

Donald Byrd, the influential jazz trumpeter, composer and educator, died Feb. 4. He was 80. A post on the Web page of Detroit mortuary Haley Funeral Directors belatedly confirmed Byrd’s passing. In a ...

American singer and pianist Michael Feinstein, who has long been known for preserving and reviving the Great American Songbook Foundation, and his spouse, Terrence Flannery, are listing their West ...

Up-and-coming, mid-career and Grammy-winning artists will be performing at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Thursday ...