Social Media Ideas for Radical '80S

Memes flash back to the ‘80s

Hollywood Gets Totally Tubular

There are at least two of these sort of eighties package shows each year in Los Angeles nowadays, pointing towards the enduring, persistent memory and energy of music from that dec...

3 New Wave Songs From the 1980s That Were Too Weird To Ignore

circa 1980: British actress and pop singer Toyah Wilcox, lead singer of the punk band Toyah. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) New wave was the kind of genre to dish out some weird...

American Divide: Spencer Pratt Takes On Ryan Reynolds over What the 1980s Were Really Like

What were the 1980s really like? In one corner, a liberal actor calls them a “fucking mess.” In the other, a former reality star, a Republican, says it was a time of true “heroes.”...

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The style is characterized by eclectic, bolt and vibrant designs, and an explicit need to imbue a more sophisticated identity to those who wish to distinguish themselves by transce...

The Best Eighties Films, Year By Year

It was the golden age of studio blockbusters, but it also gave us everything from Back to the Future to Blue Velvet.

The Apple: Sex, Drugs, Disco, and Biblical Allegories

A bizarre rock musical in which nothing is subtle, and everything is covered in glitter The post <i>The Apple</i>: Sex, Drugs, Disco, and Biblical Allegories appeared f...

3 New Wave Songs From 1990 That Tried To Keep the 1980s Alive

0000261697-002-Bourguet 001 These new wave jams from late in the game tried to bring the 80s classic genre into the year 1990. The post 3 New Wave Songs From 1990 That Tried To Kee...

How ‘To Cut a Long Story Short’ Turned Spandau Ballet Into New Romantic Pop’s Reigning Faces

Picture London at the tail end of the 1970s, punk running out of safety pins and looking for its next disguise. Enter Steve Strange, a door policy sharper than any snare drum, and...

The Most Essential Movies of 1984

1984 gave us a little bit of everything. Horror icons, action heroes we still watch on the big screen today, revolutionary documentaries, and so much more. When you look back on th...

Is This 1983 One-Hit Wonder the Most 1980s Thing To Exist?

Los Angeles, CA - 1983: Rodney Dangerfield appearing in the ABC special 'The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More'. (Photo by George Mann /American Broadcasting Comp...

On This Day in 1987, ’80s Movie Fans Could Watch Six of the Best Movies of the Decade in One Day

On this day 39 years ago, unsuspecting cinema-goers could have accidentally ended up watching six of the decade’s best movies on the same day in the same theatre. While the early ’...

3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1980s We Used To Request on the Radio Every Day

American New Wave group Devo backstage at Max's Kansas City, New York, New York, November 15, 1977. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images) There wasn't much to do in the 1980s. I...

3 New Wave Songs From 1983 That Predicted the Rest of the 1980s

Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox of Eurythmics performing on stage, London, United Kingdom, 1983. (Photo by Ian Dickson/Redferns) New wave fans in the 80s got to enjoy a wild ride in...

80s New Wave Pioneers Announces One Night Only Reunion

By the mid-1980s, Contemporary Christian Music was changing. The pioneering Jesus Music movement had matured. Arena rock was arriving through bands like Petra and DeGarmo & Key...

Decoding the ’80s-Fueled Fashion of <i><em>The Shards</em></i>

The costume designers tell us about all those decently preppy, extremely tight looks.

3 Essential 1980s Sci-fi Movies That Pushed the Limits of Special Effects & Still Hold Up

The 1980s were a golden age for movies, with innumerable films from that decade going on to be cult classics and film industry icons in the modern day. This was true for myriad gen...

'80s TV Shows That Redefined What Sitcoms Could Be

The '80s marked a revolutionary period for the TV sitcom genre, and some of the decade's biggest shows set the tone for the decades to come.

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3 Glam Rock Songs From the 1980s We Can’t Help but Strut Around To

(L-R) English musicians Rick Allen, Phil Collen, Rick Savage, Steve Clark (1960 - 1991) and Joe Elliott, of the English rock band Def Leppard, pose for a group portrait during the...

Squeeze, Adam Ant And Haircut 100 Bring A British Music Invasion To N.Y.C.

It was an evening of classic '80s New Wave by this triple bill at Radio City Music Hall.

Totally Rad Vintage Fest draws Baton Rouge crowd with retro clothing, toys and arcade games

BATON ROUGE — Residents in Baton Rouge stepped back in time on Saturday for Totally Rad Vintage Fest at the Raising Cane's River Center. The festival saw guests...

3 Underrated Classic Rock Songs From the 1980s That Rock My World After All These Years

The Cult on 07.07.1987 in München/Munich. (Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images) No matter your age or when you first heard them, these iconic yet underrate...

YANN leans into the dark pulse of the '80s with the striking new single "Shoot Bang Kill"

YANN’s new single, “Shoot Bang Kill,” embraces that philosophy, building its identity on a deep and authentic 1980s sonic foundation. It does not follow the known trends of modern...