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Yes, one should be prepared, it is Halloween weekend!

Here is a song that is appropriate for the season by one of my faves, Garrin Benfield. I desperately want to see him performing live - I jus...

Aside from my graduating from high school, another notable happening in 1978 was the release of the Walter Egan song, Magnet & Steel . ...

Photos by Alex Rumsey I am a fan of Gregory Douglass, and have been the last 3 years or so. The funny thing is Gregory is from Vermont, and ...

The Human League? It took me this long to get to The Human League? I know, seriously, how could I have any credibility at all, right? Oh wel...

ABC help to usher in the New Wave Era of music in 1981, utilizing highly theatrical videos and performances. They were part New Romantic and...

In a recent post I mentioned the Scandinavians taking over American pop music, and you might think I was coming up with something new. Well...

The first out contestant on American Idol, Jim Verraros, is marrying his boyfriend, Bill Brennan, Sunday, September 6. Verraros, the season...

Clannad was an Irish group steeped in the tradition of Irish Folk and New Age music. The nucleus of the group was a family, with brothers, ...

I love the Housemartins, who were together for far too short a time. But this a cappella version of Caravan of Love certainly had me think...

Hopefully, at around 3:30 PM we will be surprising my parents at the party. Prior to them arriving, I made this little video to amuse the gu...

Yes, I have already admitted I have a soft spot for the Backstreet Boys, so it should come as no surprise I have to do a little post about t...

God, I loved The Undertones. Hitting the airwaves in the late 70s and hitting their stride in 1980, The Undertones were everything I though...

You gotta love Irishman Feargal, who rose to frame when it was more important to have a vibrato that could take out a redwood than it was to...

Deep Blue Something came to the music scene via Texas, and had the absolute charm to propel Breakfast At Tiffany's to the Top Five in t...

Belouis Some was an interesting looking man with quite the style and voice. I really dug him, although here in the States he kinda disappea...

When the New Wave artists hit the scene in the 80s, I was so all over them. It included The Blow Monkeys, a British band who started with lo...

Since this is a busy week for me, I was thinking I would just drop some video cuts on the blog and hopefully they would be fun. Back in 198...