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Just finished watching the 80's themed movie Take Me Home Tonight for the first time, and I gotta say it was surprisingly good. What wasn't surprising though was how great the soundtrack to this movie was. From the opening scene with The Buggles " Video Killed The Radio Star " playing in the background, you just knew that it was gonna be chock full of great 80's tunes. "Live Is Life" by Austrian pop rockers Opus was a true blast from the past that had been long forgotten by me, and when it started playing [...]

There are plenty of bands that wear their influences on their sleeves, to the point where their material could be mistaken for those who influenced them. Sometimes its an intentional homage, other times its accidental - a musician growing up on the exposure of his influences subconsciously copping their style on his/her own material: The unintentional tip of the hat. [...]

For the past couple of decades, Lisa Mychols has been very busy making music through a variety of vessels. The Los Angeles, California based singer, songwriter and guitarist has not only sported membership in reputable bands such as the Masticators, the Waking Hours, Sparkle Jets UK and Receiver, but has also collaborated with a feast of fine folks, including Robbie [...]

It's much easier, nearly four decades later, to separate the music from the moment when it comes to Wings Over America. Back then, this multi-disc concert souvenir from Paul McCartney seemed like a triumphant musical summation. In stark contrast to his modern-day globe-trotting ways, McCartney hadn't at this point toured America in 10 years - and those concerts dated to [...]

Upon a rolling wave of buzzing beats and percussion pitched halfway between the Burundi borrowings of Bow Wow Wow and Gene Krupa’s “Sing Sing Sing,” comes indie-pop nymph Lykke Li with “Get Some.” Except forget about that nymph bit. Gone is the coy fragility that marked 2008’s Youth Novels, Here the Swedish chanteuse accesses her inner Pam Grier - sounding [...]

For John Clayton, the gig was a complete mystery. He knew that Diana Krall would be on piano, but not who the singer would be. "They wouldn't say who it was," the Grammy-winning jazz bassist reveals. Because it was Paul McCartney. Clayton and Krall would end up playing signature roles on McCartney's most recent studio effort, the 2012 standards set [...]

James McCartney, a musician with a blessing/curse of a last name, tries to come to terms with the strength needed to overcome such strokes of luck/misery on "Strong as You" - sounding an elegiac note that might have recalled his famous father if not for its darker sense of worry. James, it's clear, came by his way with a pop [...]

• James McCartney - Strong As You (from 'Me,' 2013)

Looking back, it seemed preordained. Stevie Nicks had met Dave Stewart years ago, and had a good feeling about him. "Maybe," Stevie Nicks says toward the end of the film In Your Dreams, "this played out for a reason." That, of course, hadn't always been so clear. The rock-umentary (arriving exclusively today on iTunes) begins, as these often things do, [...]

The best peace, love and harmony anthem of 1985 didn't come from the composing pen of Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, wasn't produced by Quincy Jones and not sung by hordes of rock music's biggest stars. It came to us from Ernie Isley, Chris Jasper and Marvin Isley. "Caravan Of Love" just missed the top 50 in the Hot 100, [...]

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The Love Language is a band that has long been a favorite around these parts, so we deemed it necessary to share their new song with you even though we may be a little late on reporting it.  This new track "Calm Down" features a bit more rock n roll, driving force behind it than what we are maybe used to from the band.  I don't really see that as a bad thing and could even call it a bit more of a grown up sound.  That's cool. New album  Ruby Red is due out July [...]

This imminently listenable brand of no-frills rock might have sold in any decade. But only in the 1980s, a period marked by a steep swing rightward after the polyester era's excesses, could Huey Lewis and the News have been such big stars. Their sound, a combination of early rock (they even prominently featured a sax!), doo wop and slickster R&B, [...]

For a confirmed Beatlemaniac like Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra fame, working with members of the Fab Four had always been a dream. Beginning in the late 1980s, every one of them came true. It started when Lynne was tabbed to produce George Harrison's comeback album Cloud 9, which led to the formation of the Traveling Wilburys - and [...]

If 19872s Document heralded the moment when R.E.M. started to get away from us, the follow up Green confirmed things: This wasn't going to be our little secret anymore. Still, for all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the college-radio hipsters (ahem!), Green was really more of a bridge between the two worlds than a destination. Sure, tracks [...]

Concluding our three-week look at select BBC performances, Deep Beatles focuses on a memorable George Harrison performance: “Nothin’ Shakin’ (But the Leaves on the Trees),” a rocker the Beatles had performed since their Hamburg days. Harrison excels on this track, demonstrating his singing prowess and ability to confidently lead the group. “Nothin’ Shakin’” traces its origins to 1958, when Cirino [...]

It’s time that certain critics got over the band’s name and the singer’s then-seagull haircut, and just listen to the music here without prejudice. You know the hits from the mighty debut album by Liverpool’s other Fab Four, "Space Age Love Song" and "I Ran (So Far Away)," and - to a lesser extent - "Messages" and "Telecommunication." But choice [...]

Even as he closes out the South American leg of a new tour with Paul McCartney tonight, guitarist Brian Ray is preparing for a series of solo shows with his sizzling new band the Bayonets. Ray formed the group on a lark with long-time collaborator Oliver Leiber, son of rock legend Jerry Leiber, only to see their debut single "Sucker [...]

Not made at all at this Timeflies cover of the Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding’s hit, “I Need Your Love.” A little hip-hop, a little rap and a lot of pop…enjoy. You might also like: Watch: Timeflies "I Need Your Love"—Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding’s Hit Gets Remade Cubic Lust by Gavin Hardkiss—An Insider Look At EDM Culture and The International DJ Lifestyle Ticket Giveaway: Produkt Presents Size Matters Day & Night with Steve Angello, Sunnery [...]

Toto has begun rehearsing for its 2013 tour, which begins on May 30 in Europe. David Paich and Co. will also be making a few rare U.S. appearances, beginning in late summer - something he says "almost feels like a homecoming after so long away." In this exclusive SER Sitdown, Paich discusses their plans to dig deeper into Toto's catalog [...]

This is the nexus point, for me, when Hall and Oates finally reached everything they had been grasping for in trying to blend their core R&B vibe with the too-cool nihilism of new wave. "Your Imagination" only got to No. 33 in America, and just No. 45 in the UK, a deflating end to a string of Top 10 hits [...]